This gets old after a while.
I figure the MSM papers only tell you when it is someone they want to get rid of -- i.e. Chavez, Musharaff -- or far away if it's one of our guys in trouble (Georgia?).
I am really starting to question the repetitive focus of the MSM, even within the limited content they cover.
"Five people shot during protests"
CARACAS - Four police officers and a bystander were shot and wounded during student protests yesterday in the city of Merida in an escalation of violent demonstrations against President Hugo Chávez's plan to scrap term limits. The officers were shot while trying to break up clashes between student groups (Reuters November 10, 2007)."
Let's see what the Times had to say:
"Students Emerge as a Leading Force Against Chávez" by SIMON ROMERO
CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 9 — The students first burst onto the scene over the summer with protests against Mr. Chávez’s move to push RCTV, a critical television network, off public airwaves. But the president’s proposed charter, which would abolish his term limits, has led to much larger protests here and in other large cities this month.
About 80,000 students flooded main avenues here on Wednesday.
This is how the US does it. Textbook.
Stir up the sectors of the population in league with them to create chaos and unrest!
Destabilze. Destabilize!
Students returning from that march were attacked by gunmen at the campus of the Central University of Venezuela; nine were injured. The violence continued Friday in Mérida in western Venezuela, where four police officers and a bystander were shot and wounded while trying to break up clashes between opposing student groups, Reuters reported.
Yeah, it stinks! And here four of the authorities were hit? Stench!
While such incidents continue ahead of the referendum, Mr. Chávez continues to disparage the student movement, calling the student protests a “fascist attack.” The president has also described the students as “daddy’s boys” — children of privilege resisting social change.
Many are indeed middle-class, but the unusual inclusiveness of public universities here makes it difficult to play class politics.
Pffffftttttt! Those are OUR BOYS in there! Stink NYT!
In other statements, the president has gone further, accusing opponents of conspiring to carry out a “soft coup” supported by the United States and being inspired by groups like the Albert Einstein Institution, a nonprofit group in Cambridge, Mass., that advocates nonviolent struggle.
American involvement in political affairs here remains a delicate subject, following the Bush administration’s tacit support for the coup that briefly removed Mr. Chávez from office in 2002. Mr. Chávez has also criticized the United States for channeling funds to nongovernmental groups that are critical of him.
But no reason the guy should worry or anything!
I mean, the U.S. is sooooo honest in the way it deals with people!
I'm a citizen, and even I don't trust the lying bastards!
Hewing to a new policy trying to avoid verbal clashes with Mr. Chávez, American officials here carefully denied supporting the students.
Benjamin Ziff, a spokesman for the United States Embassy in Caracas:
“The United States government has no role in the student demonstrations.”
What BS!!!!
Since then, they have efficiently coordinated protests around the country with a tone of increasing defiance.... Students opposing these proposals, of course, are not the only movement on campus. Pro-Chávez student leaders have also been mobilized in recent weeks, gaining ample airtime for their views on state television.
Yeah, thank god the MSM in this country isn't filtered, huh?
Yeah, those Neo-Con nutbags I see on my tv screen, while the public absolutely hates this war and this government, yeah, thank god the US media is so open and free.
Yeah, thank god the U.S. doesn't have anti-government, antiwar protesters in America!
We are just all behind the rotten shit Fuhrer and his stink fucking wars, uh-huh!
What GARBAGE MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!
Still, the growing intensity of anti-Chávez student protests here presents challenges for both sides: Can a revolution advance if large numbers of students are opposed to it? And will others join the students?"
You gotta be effin kidding me, right?
Students don't seem to have too much effect here in AmeriKa!!!
Seems like they are all about to be drafted for the lying fucking shitter and his damn wars!!!
So don't pontificate about the youth, Times!
When you listen to them here, then you are allowed to talk about change elsewhere.
Otherwise, SHADDUP!!!!!!!!!!!
