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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (262938)	6/11/2002 4:35:54 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

CIA MEDIA LAPDOGS AND BANANA OIL REPUBLIC TINHATS "What's terrifying Greg is that not only was the Bush Administration tied to the coup, but the American corporate media complex was nothing more than a voice box for the Bush administration." gregpalast.com RD: Excellent interview, covering Bush malfeasance from the Florida voter fraud to the CIA-cloned Carmona coup in Caracas...... More excerpts: "but (Venezuela's) Chavez won 58 percent of the vote recently. And I got to tell you -- no one doubts that he won 58 percent of the vote, because the opposition controls the electoral machinery. Now there was a reporter who did bring that up to the White House: "How can you say he's undemocratic when he was elected by a majority of the people?" And the White House response is quite telling. The White House response was just because someone wins a majority of the vote doesn't make their government legitimate." [[Hello dictatorship, Goodbye democratic myths]] ***************************** BUZZFLASH: There's a story of a Russian journalist who was essentially a news reader. And during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviet reporter condemned the invasion on the air live. And the Soviet Union put him in a mental institution and said, well, he was sick. The thought of an American journalist being that openly critical would just be hard to imagine. GREG PALAST: Walter Cronkite knew he was retiring when he became very critical of Vietnam. Pretty much he had said he was going to retire, but he was still on the air. Cronkite got on television, and then began raising doubts about the war in Vietnam, which was a very powerful thing. ********************* We could use some of this old-fashioned honesty right about now..... -Ray