[Elspode]

Good Lord...what a crappy writer Arnett is!

"The troops are in the country and fighting there way up here. " (fighting *there* way up here? Please.)

"Optimists in the Pentagon talk about an internal coup. BNut who would have had believed Umm Qasr would hold out for six days? " (*Who would have had believed*? There's a tongue twister for you)

His sentences are short and lousy, not tight and concise. He whines, he is petulant, and he truly seems amazed that he was fired. I used to have some respect for Arnett, but no more. What a doofus. I imagine that he is dictating his reports over the phone to a semi-literate copywriter, and thus the usage errors and typos (quality control is non-existant these days in just about every industry, methinks), but if he's going to write for a newspaper, he needs to stop delivering his commentary like he had a camera stuck in his face.

He an Geraldo should get together over drinks or something, but neither one of them is apparently smart enough to know what to order.