Sunday, March 11, 2007

Spin? Slant? Fear?

The shrub has been having a rough ride during his tour of South America, what with the thousands of demonstrators in each country, and Hugo Chavez dogging him. The BBC and CBC both cover Chavez's comments on the shrub and Amerika. Interesting how the Beeb is superficially harsher in its coverage, while the CBC is gentler on Bush, but adds more of Chavez's comments--which are far harsher than the one's in the Beeb report. I suspect this might reflect the underlying Canadian attitude towards Amerika: the visible appeasement of the bully masking a very critical and angry attitude.





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Vice-President Cheney still gets cheers when he trots out the line about the United States not needing a 'permission slip' from the UN to attack countries it suspects of evil intentions towards America. The problem that is practically invisible from inside the United States is then that other countries don't need 'permission slips' to invade their neighbours, either. They can just announce that they have uncovered a grave threat to their security in some other country -- they don't actually have to prove it, any more than the United States did -- and then they are free to invade it. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Gwynne Dyer