These are allies????

El Pais ^ | 14 september 2004

[Pitiricus]

The translation of this e-mail advertising for el Pais (a main left-leaning newspaper in Spain) reads: you can do much in a day, think what you could do in 3 months, under a before and after September 11th picture of the New York skyline.

This is how Spaniards look at September 11 and the murder of close to 3000 civilians?

Outrageous!

[Pitiricus]

http://www.arcadi.espasa.com/000287.html

[eclectic]

Dont blow your top over a blog of some unknown nutcase

[SwinneySwitch]

¡Los Bastardos!

[Pitiricus]

He reproduces a e-mail that was sent to suscribe to El Pais...

[PAR35]

For what it is worth:

[Francisco Ferrer]

This thread is intellectually dishonest. Even my high school Spanish from two decades ago can tell that the second sentence does not say anything like "think what you could do in 3 months." Instead, according to babelfish it says "Imagine what can happen in 3 months." I am less clear on the first sentence, but it is something like one day can bring much.

While I think it is pretty shady to use 9/11 to sell newspapers, the ad is clearly encouraging people to stay on top of the news with El Pais because of how much the world can change in 3 months rather than exhorting the Spanish to emulate Al Quaeda.