by Haliku » Thu Sep 30, 2010 7:26 pm
by blazin » Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:43 pm
FortMental wrote:Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan's corrupt president
Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's insane president
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was diagnosed as manic depressive, according to U.S. intelligence reports. "He's on his meds, he's off his meds," Bob Woodward quotes U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry as saying.
by sharperblue » Thu Sep 30, 2010 8:53 pm
FortMental wrote:From the article:Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, said in a Twitter message that "they are trying to oust President Correa."
Not to distract from events in Quito, I'm always amazed at the lengths the American press will go to hammer home a point. After a while, we don't even see this sort of thing because it pervades every aspect of our media. I guess it's not enough to note that Chavez is THE president of Venezuela and although we all know that Chavez is a leftist, I wasn't aware that Venezuela also had a rightist president. Thanks Associated Press!
Note that, in the same article Peru's president, an avowed Socialist, gets no such treatment:Peru's president, Alan Garcia, announced that he was shutting the country's border with Ecuador until Correa's "democratic authority" was re-established.
I thought of a few modifiers for the American Press corps to use when mentioning other presidents:
Sarkozy: France's little president
Medvyedev: Russia's puppet president
Hu Jintao: America's real president
Tarja Halonen: Finland's ugly president
Mahmoud Ahmeninajad: Irans psycho president
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president
Silvio Berlusconi: Italy's Italian president
Felipe Calderon: Mexico's useless president
Barak Obama: America's Muslim president
Daniel Ortega: Nicaragua's terrorist president
Paul Kagame: Rwanda's black president
Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan's corrupt president
Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's insane president
by Joe White » Thu Sep 30, 2010 10:49 pm
by John Duffield » Fri Oct 01, 2010 2:31 am
by bird » Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:17 pm
FortMental wrote:From the article:Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, said in a Twitter message that "they are trying to oust President Correa."
Not to distract from events in Quito, I'm always amazed at the lengths the American press will go to hammer home a point. After a while, we don't even see this sort of thing because it pervades every aspect of our media. I guess it's not enough to note that Chavez is THE president of Venezuela and although we all know that Chavez is a leftist, I wasn't aware that Venezuela also had a rightist president. Thanks Associated Press!
Note that, in the same article Peru's president, an avowed Socialist, gets no such treatment:Peru's president, Alan Garcia, announced that he was shutting the country's border with Ecuador until Correa's "democratic authority" was re-established.
I thought of a few modifiers for the American Press corps to use when mentioning other presidents:
Sarkozy: France's little president
Medvyedev: Russia's puppet president
Hu Jintao: America's real president
Tarja Halonen: Finland's ugly president
Mahmoud Ahmeninajad: Irans psycho president
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president
Silvio Berlusconi: Italy's Italian president
Felipe Calderon: Mexico's useless president
Barak Obama: America's Muslim president
Daniel Ortega: Nicaragua's terrorist president
Paul Kagame: Rwanda's black president
Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan's corrupt president
Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's insane president
by Buz Groshong » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:11 pm
bird wrote:FortMental wrote:From the article:Venezuela's leftist president, Hugo Chavez, said in a Twitter message that "they are trying to oust President Correa."
Not to distract from events in Quito, I'm always amazed at the lengths the American press will go to hammer home a point. After a while, we don't even see this sort of thing because it pervades every aspect of our media. I guess it's not enough to note that Chavez is THE president of Venezuela and although we all know that Chavez is a leftist, I wasn't aware that Venezuela also had a rightist president. Thanks Associated Press!
Note that, in the same article Peru's president, an avowed Socialist, gets no such treatment:Peru's president, Alan Garcia, announced that he was shutting the country's border with Ecuador until Correa's "democratic authority" was re-established.
I thought of a few modifiers for the American Press corps to use when mentioning other presidents:
Sarkozy: France's little president
Medvyedev: Russia's puppet president
Hu Jintao: America's real president
Tarja Halonen: Finland's ugly president
Mahmoud Ahmeninajad: Irans psycho president
Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president
Silvio Berlusconi: Italy's Italian president
Felipe Calderon: Mexico's useless president
Barak Obama: America's Muslim president
Daniel Ortega: Nicaragua's terrorist president
Paul Kagame: Rwanda's black president
Hamid Karzai: Afghanistan's corrupt president
Kim Jong-Il: North Korea's insane president
You forgot one.
Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian's Terrorist President
by Buz Groshong » Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:13 pm
by Boriss Andean » Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:08 pm
by bird » Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:24 am
Buz Groshong wrote:...as does "Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president."
by Buz Groshong » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:53 pm
bird wrote:Buz Groshong wrote:...as does "Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel's fascist president."
I was trying to keep it "fair and balanced"
by Haliku » Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:54 pm
HIGH EXPEDITIONS wrote:Everything's back to normal again. Army's on the streets. President Correa is back!
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