Posted on 08/10/2009 11:10:42 AM PDT by steve-b
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup after betraying his own kind: a small clique of families that dominates the economy. Now those same families stand as the greatest obstacle to the U.S.-backed drive to return him to power.
Elites across Latin America are watching the standoff closely, as they plot their own strategies to combat democratically elected presidents such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez who have demonized the wealthy as they push for a more even distribution of income....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
This pile of garbage is not an editorial - it is supposed to be hard news, taken directly from a wire service. The media is now emboldened, dropping all pretense of objectivity and pulling down the facade of neutral observation. They aren’t news reporters anymore, they are “news shapers”, putting more effort into narrative-weaving than fact-finding. This is make or break time - time to prove that cheerleading and agitating for international socialism is beneficial enough to the elected and protected powers to justify the provision of public largess.
It is only going to get worse as society “progresses” beyond the 50-50 parasite-host split. Once we reach roughly 40% host and 60% parasite, the endgame of Democracy will be clear even to the 30-second-attention-span endowed mass-consumers of cultural retardation.
Unreal. Chavez elections were rigged.
Ick. I don’t feel so good. Hmmmm...where IS that bottle of Pepto.............. :-X
“Not eligible to run for office” is now called “ousted in a coup” ?
I don’t know what happened to my /sarc command, but I think y’all know it was...
Colonel, USAFR
Uhh, it wasn’t a coup. It was a lawful and constitutional removal from power ordered by the Honduran Supreme Court when Zelaya violated the law in ordering an illegal referendum vote. The Honduran legislature also voted to remove Zelaya with every member of Zelaya’s party voting in agreement to remove him. Zelaya was replaced in office by a member of his own party. Some coup. But I think we all long ago gave up on the idea of the Marxist Times reporting news accurately. “All the news that’s fit to misrepresent.”
This article is mislabled. It wasn’t written by the New York Times, but by the Associated Press, which is even more shocking. Somebody should correct it.
Looks like Hussein has changed tactics in his attempt to reinstate the thug dictator-wanna-be in Honduras. Now he’ll generate some pro-Zelaya sentiment by using the tried and true stand-by of class envy! It’s those evil, greedy, rotten RICH people keeping Zelaya from return to his duly elected office. If this doesn’t work either, Hussein will let the Times know what to run with next.
And your opinion on this tripe would be what exactly?
This is worse than bias. It is pure form Marxist propoganda.
The Great Statesamn, and Supreme Humanitarian, and Arbiter of Democracy, Jimmah Catarrh, says otherwise.
That proves you be correct.
Baby Hugo is Rigger in Chief...and the sooner he suffers from a case of rigor, the better.
Tick...tick...tick...
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