"I know nothing! Noooothing!!!"
Posted on 02/07/2005 2:29:08 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate
"It's hard for the States to do anything right these days. Berlin is expecting Condi Rice on Friday and the nation's commentators are spoiling for a fight. The trans-Atlantic relationship is in shambles and Bush once again seems to be on the war path. Oh yeah, his domestic policies are a catastrophe as well."
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
Ping List material.
These are commentaries from people in a country that has unemployment rate more than 10%...
The German media is obsessively focused on portraying America as failing. Truly, Pravda in the haydays of the USSR did not do as good a job of deceiving its audience as the German media does.
You are quite right, please pardon the oversight.
Not possible with this source material.
True. The unfortunate part is the fact that the so-called "conservative" media is almost indistinguishable from the "liberal" media.
A very accurate portrayal!!!!!
It's OK!
Europe has moved so far left they see everything through Red Colored Glasses.
BP medicine necessary.
As infuriating as this article is, it does represent what Germans are subjected to 24/7. "Spiegel" has been courteous enough to put this particular one in English.
The real kicker for me is that "Bild" **** is maintaining a pro-American, pro-Bush trend. Regardless of its reputation, "Bild" is the paper most Germans read. Also, "Bild" does tend to pare away most of the PC bullsh$t floating around a story when it does print it, giving its readers the impression that they are getting a man-on-the-street account of events.
**** Warning - "Bild" has a daily 'girl-on-page-1'.
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"I know nothing! Noooothing!!!"
It makes sense really. Let's pretend you're the German government/media:
Our unemployment rate is an embarrassingly dangerous 12%, our econonomy is free falling into the abyss, our society is being overrun by Muslim immigrants, German businesses are leaving the country due to ridiculously restrictive taxes, regulations, and labor laws, and new businesses are reluctant to start up here for the same reason. Let's see, things are falling apart here in our socialist "utopia" and we need a scapegoat to divert the attention of the masses from the actual cause. Let's continue Herr Schröder's anti-American campaign and no one will notice that our welfare state is fast becoming a huge disaster.
And it becomes worse every day: Now, more than 168,000 people are not health-insured! They´ve fallen through the so-called social net and now either have to pay for medical treatment (which they can´t often enough) or go to the doctors who help for free. This can´t be true.
Despite our past difference of opinion, allow me to ask if there are any of the Schumacher family name left around Hamburg.
I meant the differences of opinion between our countries.
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