Humint Events Online: Right-Wing Dictator Murders 3000 of His Own People But WashPost Says It Is Okay

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Sorry, not Bush-- Pinochet.

Though I've not seen the Post come down on Bush for 9/11 either.

Ningen said...: Come down on Bush for 9/11? The Washington Post just endorsed it. The murder of over 3,000 of one's fellow countryman, and torture of tens of thousands more, can be justified.; 2:38 PM
Ningen said...: Glenn Greenwald shows how low the Washington Post has sunk.

http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/12/
washington-post-and-authoritarianism_13.html

I don't know enough about Chile and its economy, but looking at the Wash Post articles quoted by Greenwald, it looks like its economy was terrible well into the 80s. It's as easy to say that Pinochet stepping down is what got the economy going.

Isn't it interesting that the Washington Post was very critical of Pinochet while the Cold War was still going and viewing Communism as a threat had some basis. Now that the Cold War is over for 15 years, the Washington Post is red-baiting in defense of a murderer and torturer.; 3:31 PM
Ningen said...: Here's a comment on Greenwald's blog that made me think of Pinch:

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/glenngreenwald/
116601024699006417/#68782

Are you like this, Pinch? Your shallow abuse makes me think so.; 3:49 PM
Anonymous said...: CIA has agents working for every major media outlet in the US...read Mark Zepezauer's "CIA's Greatest Hits"...they plant stories and do other f*cked up things with the media...all we gotta do is declare war on the spooks, they are the PAWNS, expose the SPOOKS...; 11:40 AM

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