Does anyone think Andrea Mitchell’s annoyance at being roughed up in Sudan would ring a bit less hollow if our media didn’t need the excuse of a state visit to cover something that’s been going on in Sudan… like genocide?
Priorities.
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Mitchell: “If our government is going to establish a relationship and push for a new beginning as Sudan reforms itself, they have to live up to international standards. A free press is part of that process.”
Like charity, a free press begins at home, Andrea.
[...] #8221; Over at Oliver Willis weblog, there s a hastily written post entitled Another Whining Reporter, wherein he opines Does anyone think Andrea Mitchell [...]
Ah, welcome back, Frank.
Over at his Condi blog, Frank writes:
Isn’t that special?
What an ignorant, deluded, and ultimately ironic perspective that is. Colonization strategies of divide and conquer are in many cases a primary structural cause of ethnic slaughter, for example the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, or the British in India vi-a-vis all sort of religious and ethnic groups: sikhs, hindus, muslims. When will it end with these idiot conservatives?
I think Frankie fruitloop understands racism a little more than he wanted us to think Quaker.
The horror, the horror. A TV news anchor being treated like a Democrat at a Bush Town Hall Meeting…
Facts are such troubling things
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/topten/hutu/history.html