Ralph Peters on what really happened. Our media really does us a dis-service by lacking any idea of context above and beyond the salacious headline. Pretty pathetic.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03112007...lph_peters.htm
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March 11, 2007 -- AS our president arrived in Brazil last week, the U.S. media made it sound as if Latin America had erupted in flames. TV news featured flying tear-gas canisters; a typical newspaper headline read, "Angry Crowds Rally Against President in Brazil."
Message: Bush is hated. He's ruined our relations with the hemisphere. Nobody loves us anymore - and it's all his fault.
Well, venceremos, muchachos, and no pasdaran!
If you bothered to read the reports below the headlines, you learned that 6,000 Brazilians had gathered in Sao Paulo to protest Bush's arrival in their country.
Wait a minute - wasn't that 600,000? Or at least 60,000?
Nope. Just 6,000 outraged citizens. Out of Brazil's population of 200 million.
Shucks, down here in Washington you can rally 6,000 activists at a moment's notice to march for equal rights for prairie dogs.
Couldn't Cindy Sheehan have flown down to pump up the numbers a little? (Or Jack "I'm a hero!" Murtha? He'd look studly in a Speedo on a Rio beach . . . )...
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Polls show that South Americans have a lower opinion of Chavez, whom they distrust, than of Bush. They've been there, done that. The last thing they want is more conflict.
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Last edited by dude1394; 03-11-2007 at 11:05 AM.
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