Wednesday, November 09, 2005

MSM spinning the French riots

Check out the title of this story versus the first two paragraphs and you've got to think this doesn't make any sense.

French Rioting Eases As Car Burnings Fall

PARIS (AP) - France's storm of rioting eased Wednesday, with car burnings falling nearly by half, police said. But looters and vandals defied a state of emergency with attacks on superstores, a newspaper warehouse and a subway station.

The extraordinary 12-day state of emergency, which began at midnight Tuesday, covered Paris, its suburbs and more than 30 other French cities from the Mediterranean to the border with Germany and to Rouen in the north - an indication of how widespread arson, riots and other unrest have become in nearly two weeks of violence.


Oh, great the riots are stopping because the rioters burned half as many cars. Hey, maybe that's because they started looting and torching stores now in more than 30 French cities instead of the cars.

Who writes this crap?

UPDATE: Iowahawk has breaking news that the rioters are now focusing their rage on the truly evil French accordions. Whatever will the French mimes do without their accordions?

UPDATE 2: Legal XXX comes to a similar conclusion with a very official sounding barometer.