Acquiunk wrote:woiyo wrote:The Bush administration HAS and agenda and are competant. It just so happens the editorial staff og the NY TIMES does not agree with it.
A valid point. But the NYT as international visibility and its editorial page as an international impact. Which is say it has a very big club. When it lays one right between the eyes as this editorial does, something serious is afoot.
As subscribers and viewers dwindle, Mainstream Media - or should that be "
Lame Stream Media" - and its coterie of sycophantic, equally-deluded followers wonders why.
What The Public wants to know is What Happened, not "Here's what we want you to think about what happened".
The "America Worst" crowd, led by the failing old-line media establishment, championed by the Bushophobes, are increasingly clueless as to the cause of their decline, distress, and general disappointment, and blind to the real state of affairs domestic and global. Things ain't going the way that crew would like them to, so to them, things are going all wrong, and the hope they imagine they find lies in fixing on, or inventing, issues of inconvenience to their opposition.
Just about every election cycle - home and abroad - now brings that crew another round of unpleasant surprises. That oughtta - but obviously doesn't - tell the constantly surprised that their constant surprise is of their own making. It can't be that they're getting it wrong, that The Public is not in sympathy and/or agreement with them, no, of course not. The problems and disappointments of The Left just hafta be the result of skullduggery and malfeasance on the part of The Evil Other Side, you know.
Of the 34 states participating in the OAS summit, 29 signed on to the initiative to restart talks aimed at implementing the Free Trade of the Americas pact . 4 of the 5 non-signatory states, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, witheld their endorsements temporarily, making clear they were basing their action on concerns over global farm subsidy issues, concerns echoed by The US, and an issue The US will press vigorously at the upcoming 148-Nation Doha Talks this December in Hog Kong (where, as in Argentina, one may expect The Media to pay much attention to the rent-a-mobs of protestors, and very little attention to the substance of the parliamentary proceedings). What the real story out of the just-concluded Argentina talks is is that alone among the participants, pipsqueak Hugo Chavez' essentially insignificant - and floundering - Venezuela opposes. While nations comprising 90% of the GDP of the region support, in principle or by actual endorsement, the FTA Pact, only Venezuela presents opposition, opposition based on ideology, opposition in which none of the 33 other participating states have joined. To the contrary, no one has endorsed the ridiculous counter proposals Chavez offers, while Mexico's Fox has said the Free Trade Pact will move on apart from Venezuela, Tony Saca, El Salvadore's president, said specifically and unambiguously to Chavez at the summit, "Our position is of a total and absolute support of the FTAA. The spirit of integration will prevail", and Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are concluding an extraordinarily swift, 18-month effort to develop and implement a separate though related Andean Nation/US pact along US guidelines. The "Failure" associated with Bush the Greater's visit to Argentia is that of the pundits who continue to press "America Worst" even as US policy continues to notch successes throughout the globe.
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