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Still hard at work maintaining the French in the illusion that the American people is being 'brainwashed' by its press (under the direct control of the Evil Dictatorial Bush Administration®), the FrenchEnters the miserable rant of CNN's Christiane Amanpour, boisterously proclaiming that she, and the rest of the media - particularly CNN - has been intimidated and muzzled by the Bush Administration and Fox News.
Or, for some, 'self-muzzled', a pretty convenient accusation if there was any, since that makes you the victim and main witness at the same time.
As a preliminary remark, I'm glad to see that the poor intimidated, muzzled and self-muzzled Christiane is obviously not anymore.
That's a relief really, considering that although there are indeed some occasions when muzzling a woman is a real source of entertainment, of which most are generally reserved to specific circles involving consenting adults in kinky albeit a bit ridiculous leather and latex outfits, this, if it happened to be anything else than a product of Chrissie Doll's angry Left inspired phantasms, would definitely not be one of them.
A muzzled press is not a matter of entertainment, whatever the outfit.
But let's not get carried away at the evocation of a muzzled Christiane Amanpour in latex garter belt and leather corset and let's go back to LCI and her kinky conception of information.
Having astutely postured Chrissie Doll as a fierce lone voice of dissent, braving the Big American Media Machine, in as little as the 7 words of the scary sibylline title, the unsigned LCI article goes on, striking Muzzled Chrissie's strong blows at the perfidious Bush Administration and its Fox News "foot soldiers", one after another.
We therefore learn that "the press was muzzled" and "the press self-muzzled", that she and CNN were "intimidated by the administration" and "its foot soldiers at Fox News" amidst a global "climate of fear" and "self-censorship".
All right. Enough already.
We've heard this kind of 'muzzled press' nonsense ad nauseam. There's definitely nothing new on Chrissie Doll's side, particularly since she seems to forget that some of us followed the developments of the Iraqi crisis on a daily basis.
And remember them with an excellent acuity.
If the Bush Administration muzzled the American press, I would certainly appreciate Chrissie to keep her leather corset two minutes and explain how come we heard those who opposed the liberation of Iraq so shamefully loudly or even how come the Vietnam War flavored quagmires and other ghost looting of museums were propagated so widely that even the President of the French Republic ridiculed himself echoing it in a falsely indignant fashion (we're still waiting for an apology Jack).
Not mentioning the sudden invisibility granted to thousands of Iraqis who welcomed the Marines with cheeriness, and keep doing so.
If the Bush Administration muzzled the American press, I guess we would have heard that there was not a single casualty on the Coalition's side, not a single terror attack and that Saddam was found entertaining himself, wearing a spiked leather penial ring, with a well known muzzled CNN correspondent in latex garter belt on a pile of unconcealed chemical warheads in a Baghdad Café.
Or something along that line.
Yet we didn't, so all I can see here, is the member of one of the big name of "information" for whom the outcome of the Iraqi battle, with all the dirt and skeletons in the closet it exposed, has been particularly embarrassing (the other being the BBC. The French press doesn't count, as she can relate anything without anybody questionning her integrity, and therefore won't restrain), trying very awkwardly to regain an appearance of respectability by projecting upon her political opponents her very own malfeasances - such a specialty on the Left.
I have no doubt that the American public, all 'brainwashed' it may be by a 'muzzled press in the hands of the Hawks', will not concede the Muzzled Chrissie and the Censored CNN more credit than they deserve.
And there are signs • already that I have indeed little to worry • about.
Between the advent of the anti-Idiotarian blogs and the brilliant Pentagon move on the embedded journalists' issue, things, as well as times, have changed and I'm afraid Chrissie has to face the fact that, latex garter belt or not, she's not going to entertain us with the old leftist canards.
Those dogs don't hunt.
All is left and entertaining on the first degree, is the delightful swing back of the pendulum by Irena Briganti, Fox News spokeswoman:
Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda.Given the choice, I agree.
That said it would be excessively naive of us to expect the pendulum to swing all the way back to the French LCI.
The scary big red titled article conveniently forgets that part of the story.
But considering that LCI - and as far as I know, the French press as a whole - also consistently forgot to report that CNN's President, Eason Jordan confessed CNN knew about the atrocities of Saddam's regime since the mid-1990s but choose to... Self-muzzle in order to keep the Baghdad office open, there's nothing really surprising here.
Meanwhile, the French public is comforted in the idea that the media obey the U.S. Administration, willingly in the case of Fox or under the pressure for the 'courageous dissidents' such as Christiane Amanpour.
From LCI's point of view, as well as for the rest of the kennel, this is the usual business based on a mental process they share with Chrissie Doll: by spreading Chrissie's ludicrous assertions - no matter the absence of ascertainable facts and the flagrant contradiction with their loud covering of the world events - they're making sure their own audience will not notice how submissive, obedient and mean the French press is.
Indeed, how could they face the fact that, apart from a handful of columnists who weren't exactly journalists themselves (two politicians, three philosophers and a movie director), there were absolutely no dissenting voice or press organism, either printed or broadcasted within the French mainstream media?
Those shiny happy people boarded the ChIraqi train as soon as possible and complacently replaced facts with fiction and reality with its denial.
Apart from their ghastly enjoyment of the Coalition's casualties, especially the American ones, of course.
Anybody cares to tell me who exactly is brainwashed besides the majority of French that can't read or listen anything else but French?
The most eerie part is that unlike Chris in Fear at the Censored CNN, I have no reason to believe that the ChIraq Administration had to lift even a single finger to get to that result.
Their dogs are so well trained that they don't need the stick to make them bark with the right voice anymore.
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