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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: carranza2 who wrote (19803)12/14/2003 4:41:30 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793729
 
I think it is a mistake to take their droll delivery as evidence of a lack of enthusiasm. I don't think the BBC would get excited delivering news of the second coming of Christ.

Nah, I'm not buying that one, c2. The Beeb gets exited all the time, just let them get a whiff of American failures.

For example, two days ago I heard an extremely tendentious Beeb interview of Hamid Karzai, Pres. of Afghanistan. The gist of the interview went something like this:

Karzai: We're making good progress, but we need more international help. We haven't gotten the money we were promised.
Interviewer: But what about the Taliban and all the failures of the campaign? what about all those dead children?
Karzai: Clearly there have been mistakes as well as progress. This was a mistake.
Interviewer: But those mistakes are horrible disasters, right? You're telling the Americans they must never do that again, right?
Karzai: We are working with the Americans to review their method of operations to prevent these mistakes in future.
Interviewer: But meantime, hasn't it had disastrous effects on the public sympathies necessary to the campaign?

and so on and so forth. Don't be fooled by the delivery, listen to the words chosen and the questions asked - and not asked.
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