Campus Columnist: "Bush Media Policy Mirrors Putin's"
Kids say the darnedest things. Take Joey Falco, a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame majoring in American Studies. Writing in Notre Dame's campus paper The Observer, young Falco accused President Bush of intimidating U.S. media in a manner comparable to Vladimir Putin's crackdown on Russia's three largest television networks. Mr. Falco writes:
"While Putin puppeteers news organizations like Channel One, Russia TV and NTV, Bush controls a few media marionettes of his own - namely Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher, `Jeff Gannon' and probably a few more to be named later. … If you ask me, this kind of authoritarian media manipulation would be enough to get even Stalin, Castro and Mussolini to admit, `This Bush guy is GOOD!'" [hyperlinks added by Moonbat Central]Um… Stalin? Castro? Mussolini? Good heavens. What are they teaching kids these days?
8 Comments:
These people are supposed to be educated.
Wonder what he would have to say about bill clinton intimidating all the women that accused him of sexual harrassment???
Emmanuel Goldstein was a neo-con.
Mr. Poe says,
Um… Stalin? Castro? Mussolini? Good heavens. What are they teaching kids these days?
Obviously not history, or his stupid article would have included Hitler in with this evil leftist bunch.
That whacky G Dubya! He is an evil genius and a stupid dumbass, a great actor and manipulator, and a silly chimp, a swaggering puppet, and a hate filled fundie all at the same time!
How does he do it?
What struck me about Mr. Falco's rant was his obliviousness to any concept of proportion.
Even if we were to concede, for the sake of argument, that Armstrong Williams, Maggie Gallagher and Jeff Gannon were "puppets" of the Bush administration — something I do not concede, by the way — it still baffles me how anyone, even a college sophomore, could compare the manipulation of such minuscule "puppets" to Putin's manipulation of three major television networks whose viewerships are among the largest in the world.
These people are upset because a lie was challenged.
Mr. Wallis writes: "These people are upset because a lie was challenged."
I'm not sure I caught your drift.
Which people? What lie?
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