Posted on 07/09/2022 4:51:34 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
CBS “Mornings” on Friday remembered former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following his assassination while on the campaign trail at the age of 67.
According to CBS reporter Elizabeth Palmer, Abe was a “polarizing figure,” “a right-wing nationalist and conservative.” She advised that although Abe’s “political opinions were controversial,” the country was “united in shock and sympathy at the news of his death.”
“It would be hard to overstate just how much of a shock this is in the normally nonviolent Japan,” Palmer stated. People are really feeling traumatized.”
“Abe was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister when he left office in 2020 due to ill health,” she continued in a voice-over recording. “A polarizing figure, he was a right-wing nationalist and conservative and a fierce supporter of Japan’s military. He fought to amend the country’s pacifist constitution in the face of the rising threat from China. While in office, Abe met former President Donald Trump several times to reaffirm Japan’s military and trade alliances with the United States. His political opinions were controversial, but the country is united in shock and sympathy at the news of his death.”
Palmer advised that a gun attack in a country with such strong gun law has the people “feeling shaken.”
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I think the answer would disappoint you and many of us here.
My personal experience here in Japan for many years was that you would come across people very strongly in support and loving him and then equally many vocal and angry people who didn’t like him one scintilla and were very angry about his policies… He did not have unanimous support across the board by any stretch of the imagination.
Translated, that means he resisted the Neocon agenda, at least somewhat.
CBS Mournings is more like it. They are dead Presstitutes walking, sort of.
So CBS is saying that the guy who assassinated him is one of them.
Polarizing? He was one of Japan’s most popular political figures.
That’s pry why he remained in power so long. More ppl loved him than didn’t. Political parties rarely want to support politicians that everyone hates...unless they wanna lose, of course.
SeeBS is disgusting beyond words.
That is a smear CBS is revving up for coming elections here.
So the rabid extreme left media agrees Abe was one of the really good guys.
‘Bout time they got that memo.
So the CBS far left granola bars didn’t like Shinzo Abe, Huh? Anybody the SeeBS Walkers don’t like is always a ‘Right-wing Nationalist”. That crap gets old.
There’s not much “traumatized” going on here. There’s shock and disbelief, but life goes on. There 57,000 of us at the Japan vs France rugby game yesterday. They asked for a moment of silence and respect before the national anthems were played. Everyone had a great time.
I would like to call CBS Communist mother f-ers but they got it so you can’t even say mother anymore.
To Marxists, anyone NOT Marxist enough is “right-wing”…
To be fair, the LDP in Japan are actually their conservative party.
I just wanted to do like the leftards in the USA, and use titles to insult their stupidity (and it would probably confuse them)...
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