The Podunk People’s Daily Heralds Peaceful ChiComs
October 22nd, 2006 at 12:08 pm by SmantixOur Daily Disgrace of a statewide newspaper making treasonous and amoral editorials is par for the course. And ordinarily, I let a majority of their garbage slide since no one reads it anyway. But today they’re praising the ChiComs for having “cooler heads” in dealing with the NorK problem and and I just can’t take it:
Cooler heads take lead on North Korea
China plays a key role in dispute, and the United States must be flexibleA glimmer of optimism has shown through in the nuclear crisis with North Korea.
China signaled on Friday that it is willing to do more to impose sanctions on its belligerent neighbor if North Korea, the United States and South Korea will demonstrate “coolheadedness” and “adhere to peaceful dialogue.”
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China’s velvet-gloved approach of voting to impose U.N. sanctions, while insisting the U.S.-backed sanctions be watered down, appears to have made the difference in Kim’s stance.In a meeting with a visiting Chinese envoy on Friday, Kim also raised the possibility the country would return to arms talks if Washington agrees to drop financial sanctions.
Ah, yes. The famous Chinese Velvet Glove treatment.
First off, let’s concede that China and Russia tacitly approve of transferring nuclear and missile technology to the NorKs. Having the NorK’s head screwball threatening everyone is a nice distraction from their innumerable human rights abuses.
But “cooler heads”?
Kim Jong-Il just let off a nuclear bomb. What you’re saying is the equivalent of handing over your purse to a man who puts a gun in your face in hopes that he won’t come back next week demanding more. The only difference is the man putting the gun in your face in this scenario has an ocean between us and instead of a gun he’s working on nuclear tipped ICBMs.
These overtures should prove a critical test for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the White House — now is not the time to play hardball.
I’m dying to hear when exactly is the right time to play hardball. After Kim Jong-Il attacks South Korea? Japan? Los Angeles?
Maybe if he launched an ICBM into the Kyoto Forest that would send The Tennessean off the rails.
Another thing for Washington to think about: If sanctions fail because they are not enforced, the only alternatives left may be the bilateral talks it has stubbornly avoided, or military action. Americans fed up with a war in Iraq are unlikely to support the latter.
Yeehaw! An endorsement for unilateral cowboy diplomacy.
Lucky for us the ChiComs who forces abortions, attack and kidnap US soldiers, are threatening to invade Taiwan, have no free press or free speech, counterfeit our money, widespread religious persecution and murder, blocking any sanctions against Iran, North Korea, and the Sudan, harvesting human organs from their political dissidents, and shooting pilgrims are the “cooler heads”?
I am unconvinced, despite their best efforts, that China will be able to hammer and sickle any of their good table manners into Rice’s thick American skull after only spending a few days in such a heady, tolerant, and compromising climate.
If she orders US troops to open fire in the lobby of 1100 Broadway, I’ll know the re-education took. If she slaps the Koran out of the first Muslims hands she sees at the airport, I will recognize the headway the ChiComs made. And if she gives a loaded pistol to a 5 year-old who’s stomping his foot because his Mommy won’t enter multi-lateral talks with his friends to take him to the movies, consider me swayed.
A guy can dream can’t he?
In the future, stick to promoting illegal immigration, undermining support for Iraq, promoting socialized healthcare, rooting for a Big Brother society under constant surveillance, and asking if Kim Jong-Il has an e-mail address. Because when it comes to dealing with a despotic cult leader with a nuclear arsenal, your entire staff is too dangerously inept to be allowed to attempt to influence the opinions of anyone who doesn’t know what’s going on.
UPDATE: Last week I mentioned that the Tennessean had already endorsed Harold Ford, Jr. for Senate. I omitted that they also only endorsed Democrats for every office available. I apologize for that oversight.
UPDATE 2: They still have not written about Prince Harold’s ill-fated bum rush of Corker’s campaign stop that made national headlines.
UPDATE 3: As Iran is watching everything going on with the NorKs, today they are saying:
“Iran’s position is that you cannot use the policy of ‘carrot and stick’ at the same time because it is an incompetent policy and it will result in failure.”
The AP goes on to note: “France, Britain and Germany are drafting a Security Council resolution on sanctions and have been discussing it with the United States, which wants tougher measures. Russia and China, which can veto a resolution, are wary of imposing penalties.”
BOLD PREDICTION - The Tennessean will endorse a bold new “candy and roses” policy towards Iran that’s sure to win over the Islamic hardliners. Preferably delivered at a Ramadan celebration in the Oval Office as the President bows to Mecca.
October 22nd, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Rice: No promise on 2nd nuke blast…
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she has no knowledge of a pledge by North Korea’s lead…
October 22nd, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Two points:
1. Yeah, the Tennessean should be have a story on Ford’s ‘bum rush’.
2. The Tennessean has been a ‘Democrat’ paper for many many years. Editorially, they have almost always endorsed Dems. When the Banner was around, they almost always endorsed GOPers. I don’t see the newsflash there. Newspapers editorially have always leaned one direction or the other. It’s really not a matter of fairness. The real story is if item 1 is influenced by item 2.
October 22nd, 2006 at 2:49 pm
good lord..
Item 1..don’t know why I was drifting into ebonics. The Tennessean should HAVE HAD a story on Ford’s bum rush.
sorry.
October 22nd, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Yet another reason why, when I lived in Nashville, I cancelled my Tennessean subscription. They would have to overhaul the staff to bring it up to bird-cage-liner-worthy.
October 22nd, 2006 at 9:56 pm
It’s not a newsflash that the Tennessean is liberal. When they bought out the Nashville Banner that was exactly what they were going for.
Unfurl the Mission Accomplished banner!
An ideological one horse town. Which also explains why their circulation numbers are in the proverbial shitter and swirling deeper.
Hell, they got scooped by other area newspapers that their Editor E. J. Mitchell was fired a few months ago.
So them being a Donk house organ is a given, john. It’s nice that you can concede that since your geographical acquaintance, S-tard Malik, at the Enclave is convinced that it’s part of the Right Wing Media.
But what they’ve done with this Ford story is journalistic malfeasance. Just spiking it is wrong. They had two stories up in their politics section this morning. One demanding Corker take down an ad that’s being sponsored by a PAC (which would be illegal for a campaign to collude with a PAC) and the other was a hit piece where they interview 3 alleged Republicans who say they are voting for Ford. They end the one sided piece with a link to Ford’s website so you can donate some money to him.
It’s everything though. Another illegal alien drunk driver killed two people last night and sent eleven more to the hospital and the paper refuses to speculate as to what his status in the country is. One of the victims was an 8th trimester fetus (or a 2 year old “baby” as us prolifers call them) so the Tennessean was probably just considering it’s death part of the Mexican’s “right to choose”.
Just like they did with the one who stabbed and raped the 74 year old Bellevue woman to death. The intentionally left out the rape part for several weeks before reporting it. Just like the one that killed the couple in Lakeview. Just like the one that killed the Gibson guitar employee on Briley Parkway.
What do they lead with this morning? Somebody running a puppy mill in Sumner county was arrested. Whoop-dee-fucking-doo.
During the murder and rape of the Bellevue woman, they ran front page stories for two weeks on “the scandal” that rocked the Tennessee Walking Horse celebration to the nails in their horseshoes – relegating the rape story to page B-24. Local news. Right above the obituaries.
The Tennessean is a criminally irresponsible assrag.
October 22nd, 2006 at 10:14 pm
Sorry to go even further off on this but I couldn’t resist Donk Party Chairman Bob Tuke calling Bob Corker a fag lover “out of step with Tennessee values” because Rudy Giuliani is campaigning for him.
October 22nd, 2006 at 11:02 pm
In all fairness to the “Red, White and Blew”, maybe just maybe Turk was defending same sex blow jobs?
October 22nd, 2006 at 11:24 pm
He would know. The Nashville Democrats had their own Mark Foley scandal in May of last year when the Democrat County Chair resigned after they found child porn on his Donkey work computer. His name was Rodney Mullins. Aside from a couple of hits in the Google search, you will see that the story was blacklisted outside of two Nashville City Paper articles. No Tennessean articles, No Nashville Scene articles. No Commercial-Appeal, Knoxville News Sentinel. None of them. Because he had a “D” next to his name.
That story has gotten even less press than the one about another local, professional Donk operative/consultant running an anti-republican shill blog who beats his wife.
Any local readers want to guess which one? Feel free to send me any private msgs if you’ve got more than I do. I’ll be taking up a collection so we can buy a steak to put over his wife’s black eye and put the remainder towards a co-pay for therapy for his kids.
October 23rd, 2006 at 12:39 am
I could add so much to what Smantix said here, but you’re right, baby. The Tennessean is The Public Menace. This is not about editorial-page positions taken by the paper. This is about, as Smantix put it, “journalistic malfeasance” over the several years I’ve read the paper since I moved back to Tennessee. From what I’ve seen so far under the new editor, I just want to set fire to the paper whenever I beat my neighbors’ dogs to it in the mornings. The Tennessean, in its sins of omission, has done so much damage that I can’t joke about it anymore.
We have the same deal on a smaller scale at my local paper in Columbia.
October 25th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Kim Jong-il threatens war….
Kim, the nut job North Korean leader has threatened war with South Korea of the South Koreans cut of aid to the North. Kim says that cutting of aid would be considered an act of war. It seems Kim Jong-il has hos own dictionary because he seems to make …