Well, define happy.... or world.
Posted on 12/08/2006 8:53:25 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
At 9pm EST/PST (8pm CST/MST) on Friday night (Dec. 8), ABC will air a special edition of Primetime, “North Korea: Inside the Shadows” which will feature Diane Sawyer recounting what she found in that communist nation during a trip there back in October. If her hour-long program matches what aired in October, be prepared for a lot of North Korea officials bashing President Bush and for Sawyer to trumpet “happy” kids.
On the October 19 World News, Sawyer proved little more than a conveyor belt for the repressive communist regime's propaganda. Talking to a North Korean Army General, she relayed how “he said to us, 'make it clear to everyone in the United States, if there is another nuclear test, the person responsible is George Bush,' because he said, 'the Bush administration is backing North Korea into a corner with its pressures and its sanctions.'" In a second segment, Sawyer was taken to a school which she favorably described as “a world away from the unruly individualism of any American school." She gushed: “Ask them about their country, and they can't say enough." A teenage girl declared, in English: “We are the happiest children in the world.” Sawyer ended her piece with video of her and the class singing "Do-Re-Mi" from the Sound of Music. Far from being embarrassed by Sawyer's obsequious approach, anchor Charles Gibson proposed: "A fascinating glimpse of North Korea."
Video clip of Sawyer's segment with the school children (1:09): Real (1.9 MB) or Windows Media (2.7 MB), plus MP3 audio (340 KB)
My October 20 NewsBusters item, “Sawyer Relays NK Propaganda Blaming Bush & Touting 'Happiest Children in the World,'” provided a full transcripts of Sawyer's pieces with the General and the kids and noted how Sawyer's sycophantic segments were reminiscent of Bob Woodruff's reports from North Korea back in June of 2005 as documented in the June 10, 2005 MRC CyberAlert article, “ABC: North Koreans Hate Americans, Offer Great Music/Art for Kids.”
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Barf bucket please -- the libs of the leftist media again pandering for the worlds' communists.
I wonder if Sawyer mentioned that during her time in the Workers' Paradise she didn't see a single blessed dog or cat.
Can I have my spoon of rice now?
Well, define happy.... or world.
This ignorant cow is a leader of the useful idiots parade.
What an imbecile.
That's right....just like ALL the other children from communist countries are the happiest children of the world.
Total imbecile, if not completely brain dead.
It's amazing what gets through the "Bush and Republicans Evil, Everything else OK" media template.
I thought it was pretty fair, maybe a little on the 'nonjudgemental' side but no barf alert needed. Occasionally wasting time pointing out unimportant cultural differences, like their different style of bowling shoes!!!! How did that get past the editors?!! Bowling shoes!
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I've just seen the first 10 minutes and the scariest thing is the kids in the band. As she said they looked like the dolls in "It's a Small World". They looked like robots.
I originally saw this JET right now ON CBS they showing Frosty the snowman I rather watch Rudolph and Frosty least Frosty he melt at high degree unlike Diane Sawyer with all that botox
LOL!
If American kids were saying that, Diane would berate them for being too nationalistic, never mind being "unruly individualists."
The people of North Korea have been starving. Now Sawyer goes there to report on the happiness of 'the children'. (as reported)
Not only is this misleading to the world, it's also an absolute betrayal of the people of Korea, the children in particular.
The left damns the right for not caring. Then they go out and betray the abused citizens of a nation like Korea.
They cry us a river on Darfur, and run cover for a man who has created his own Darfur in Korea.
This is sickening.
I be serious Jet I watching Rudolph earlier and Frosty the Snowman it is Christmas
remember Rudolph is Rudy of reindder smallest and outcast
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