[marktwain]

During the Clinton reign, I met a collegue who was from Denmark. I asked about the European attitude about Clinton, and she said that everyone she knew despised him and wondered why the Americans put up with him. She said that the information about all of his scandals was in all the papers.

I have always wondered just how real the supposed love affair with the Clintons is in Europe.

Maybe with the European left... but consider how much public opinion is biased by the OldDominantMedia. Do you think they might not tell us that Clinton was very unpopular in a lot of European quarters? Hmmmm....

[nathanbedford]

I have always wondered just how real the supposed love affair with the Clintons is in Europe.

Alas, very, very real, I am afraid. And the mirror image, the disdain of Bush, is equally widespread. I think you are right, there is virtually no other media presentation apart from Clinton - good; Bush -bad.

When I ask my German neighbors to consider that they are being duped by their own media along the same lines that occured with Reagan, they simply look blank. I say, he was described as a war monger, an ignorant actor, his "evil empire speech" was decried, etc. etc. and he only won the cold war. Now you are being deceived again about Bush. They simply do not react. It does not register.

This is not an isolated conversation but universally true with only the rarest of exceptions.

I wish it were otherwise.