Posted on 03/01/2005 12:08:19 PM PST by pissant
"In another setback for the Bush administration, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told a national TV audience Saturday that he would impose democratic presidential elections on this tranquil Arab dictatorship. . . . Democrats in the U.S. Congress wasted no time pointing out that White House foreign policy had failed again. 'How is President Bush going to carry out his promise to invade dictatorships and impose freedom if they keep announcing changes like this?' said an unnamed Democrat Senator. 'I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a domino effect, with one Arab nation after another falling into the democracy camp, thereby making the Bush foreign policy an obsolete embarrassment.' "--ScrappleFace.com, Feb. 26
"Less than six weeks after President Bush's Inaugural Address appealing for democratic reforms in the Middle East, the United States is coping with an unaccustomed problem: a region churning with fresh demands for democracy, fresh opportunities and fresh potential for instability."--New York Times, March 1
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MUHAHAHAHAAA! Scrappleface strikes again!
Man I can't quit laughing!!
Actually, they had another editorial today grudgingly conceding that the policy does appear to be working - To be fair to the Times. Perhaps they'll pick up the habit of being fair to Conservatives? Not.
Are you serious. Did they really print scrappleface as a new story? UNBELIEVABLE.
I do like the "What Comes After '9'? '10,' Says Poli Scientist." a little way down.
But Baker is skeptical: "Can the president pull off this political feat? History doesn't offer great encouragement. Realignments, when they do occur, have only followed events of the greatest magnitude."
Opinion Journal's author smacks him down for that - looking out the window in New York's financial district at a big pit where he could have sworn a couple of buildings had been.
"There must be some mistake...simple-mindedness is winning! Middle Easterners want to be free, too! This can't be! Is John Kenneth Galbraith still alive? Do you have Noam's cellphone number? Get me somebody who can explain why the Bush Chimp's plan ultimately has to fail! Now, dammit!"Oh, the inanity!"
I didn't read that. But it is pretty telling when scrapple face does a satire, and the Times writes an article that seriously makes the same point. This should be sent to Hume at FOX.
Gee, a casual reader of the Times might think they oppose the idea of freedom.
Taranto made an excellent point,
The entire NYT editorial is like that.
"You can't dismiss the argument that the themes we're hearing from Washington are helping to cause changes in the Middle East," a senior State Department official said. "But you have to give the main credit to the elections in Palestinian areas and in Iraq. The Iranians, the Syrians and the Iraqis have to be reacting to the elections."
HELLOOOO! There wouldn't have been elections in Iraq, if we didn't liberate them from Saddam!
Condi has a real job to do, cleaning out the State Dept.
NO-- James Taranto, who writes for the WSJ, read the NYT piece and reminded him of the joke news stuff, such as Scrappleface, and HE pasted an excerpt from Scrappleface and an excerpt from the NY Times next to each other.
I read the NYT editorial, and Taranto is right, they are presenting the success of democracy in the ME, as if it had nothing to do with Bush, and that it's a bad thing.
ROTFL!!!!
The NYTs should hire the "Help Me I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up" woman as their spokeperson.
Ofcourse they would. They never gave reagan credit for the ussr fall. They sure aren't going to let Bush get any credit for democracy breaking out.
the folks at scrappleface must be silly-sick from laughing at the Slimes over this.
But after freedom is gained, doesn't stability - or, at least, more stability - follow? Geez, the folks at the NY Times really are stupid and pathetically enamoured of dictators.
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