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.”
Agreed
Great link! Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiq643nQZj0"
Wow they (videographers) are lucky that they escaped Chia's wrath and made it out of there alive.
Yeah big time they are so lucky
I remember when this special came on and my mom told me NOW honey now I realize you call him Chia Pet
he is wantbe ganstra rapper you know what she is right after seeing Team America Chia Pet want be gangstra rapper run with Puff Daddy
they have no clue as to how miserable THEY would be if their dreams of converting America into a Utopian collectivist paradise were ever realized.
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Diane was probably only shown the school for the children of the elite.The Teen who proclaimed them to be "the happiest children in the world" was likely that General's own daughter.
Rush hour in the Worker's Paradise.
Anyone have a email addy for diane ? she needs to be told what a moron she is. Wonder if she saw people starving and eating dirt there ?
If Fisher is ever caught, he should do the 2 weeks community service he deserves.
The MSM lives in a different world than you or I.
Diane should work for Vogue or Cosmopolitan, not hardcore journalism.
Conspiracy to commit Stupidity or willful mouthpiece of leftist tyranny ????
I was amazed that CNN did a documentary on North Korea last year that showed how bleak things were there (people dropping dead in the streets from starvation). I don't know how CNN allowed a little truth to get through.
Long time passing
where the kitties gone
long time ago
where have all the critters
prepared in woks every one
When will they ever learn,
When will they evvvvver learn!
Diane Sawyer, the 21st Century Walter Duranty.
I actually spent a month in North Korea back in 1996. I was just 21, and at the time was working on a merchant ship carrying grain as part of the BS foreign relief effort the US was carrying out. The little I saw of the countryside was horrible, and it has to have gotten worse in the intervening years. Very little animal life, and even the soil was barren and washed out in most places. The people were unfriendly and scared to death of us. When we went on Liberty, we were escorted by the tallest soldiers they could find (about 5'8"), and constantly had machine guns pointed at us every time we looked out the window. As I recall, every time anyone was allowed off the ship, something happened that required that they be escorted back at gunpoint.
The Captain offended every single official with style, referring to Pyongyang city as "Ping Pong City," comparing the downtown area to a set on the Flintstones movie, and lighting napkins on fire on his dinner plate whenever the power went out (about every 10 minutes) at the Seaman's Club.
Good to see ya Cheaps!
Good Grief!
What did Diane EXPECT them to say when even the most down-trodden, IOW MOST of the people in N.Korea will ONLY
answer "Beloved Leader says it is a beautiful day" or words
to that effect, when asked how they are, or any question
for that matter!
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