Posted on 07/21/2009 9:05:10 AM PDT by AJKauf
When it comes to reporting on the nefarious goings-on throughout the world, the mainstream media can be quite selective.
When the perpetrators are individuals or groups who they deem to be less than agreeable, the media will leave no stone unturned in their quest to expose those behind the injustice. However, when someone with whom they share an ideological point of view commits the wicked act, they become the equivalent of the three wise monkeys from the Japanese maxim — they see no evil, they hear no evil, and in the case of the media, they report no evil.
Last Friday, July 17, the Honduran newspaper La Tribuna published a story detailing the Honduran government’s seizure of 45 government-owned computers found hidden in a building adjacent to the presidential palace formally occupied by the deposed President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya. According to the Honduran authorities these computers contained the results of the referendum Zelaya was fervently trying to push through. When the authorities examined those results, they found that the Honduran people had overwhelmingly voted in favor of having a constitutional convention.
This would open the door and allow Zelaya to change the constitution, removing the one-term limit on presidents strictly stipulated by the document. It is similar to what his friend and mentor, Hugo Chavez, did in Venezuela, and Zelaya figured it would work for him, too.
The only problem with these results was that the plebiscite vote never took place....
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
I hope Hondurans can stave off Obama and Chavez.
I read this in the Spanish press earlier this week. I was waiting for it to show up in the US press...waiting...waiting...waiting...
The media critters are nothing but propagandists for marxism. The sooner they go extinct the better.
yep.
I had liberal MSN as my homepage for years. WinXP defaults to it and I just left it that way. Just recently it dawned on me that I am giving them hits for advertising revenue. Took it off and now have Foxnews.
ACORN international?
(or whatever their name is today)
Nicaragua's Ortega eyes recall, end to term limits
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Nicaraguan opposition lawmakers on Monday condemned a public appeal for constitutional changes by President Daniel Ortega as an attempt to extend term limits and eventually allow the leftist leader's re-election.
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I’m still waiting for the US press to report on voter fraud in this country. Commies of a feather stick together, I suppose...
Well isn’t that special.
Hey wait a minute I read that Jimmah Carhter certified that election
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