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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate?
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From: cavan2/24/2005 8:25:41 PM
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ADMINISTRATION – IN GERMANY, BUSH PLAYS BUBBLE BOY: The White House brought its sealed, dissent-free road show to Germany this week, scrapping an open "town-hall"-style event with average Germans for a meeting featuring "carefully screened 'young leaders,'" the New York Times reports. The town-hall gathering was expected to be the "main highlight" of the president's trip – that is, until the German government said it was "unwilling to permit a scripted event with questions approved in advance" (like the one Secretary Rice held recently in France). Germans eager to see a U.S. president weren't always required to undergo ideological vetting; in 1989, the first President Bush addressed an "enthusiastic audience" of 3,500 Germans during his visit. This time around, President Bush was "entirely sealed off from Germans," who protested his events and overwhelmingly oppose his foreign policy goals.
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