How disgusting has it gotten? The cultural editor of Newsweek calls Morales a parasite

[cali]

Here's the ever so charming article. I thought I'd get a jump on things as I'm sure it will be posted admiringly and seriously in no time at all:

Edward Snowden’s Parasites: Evo Morales, Julian Assange & More

The NSA drama has reeled in a host of global grandstanders desperate for relevancy. Michael Moynihan on the Bolivian farce, the WikiLeaks sideshow, and other yanqui ‘victims.’

I know, I know. We aren’t supposed to pay attention to Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker doing an uncanny Sir Alfred Mehran impression at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. It’s the drip, drip, drip of purloined documents that counts.

After a few weeks of hypocritical outrage and bluster from Ecuador, Cuba, and every other recent recipient of Venezuelan largesse, the media gaggle has shifted to the blustering and outraged Bolivians. According to the Bolivian government, President Evo Morales’s plane, traveling from Moscow to La Paz, was diverted to Austria after rumors percolated that Snowden was on board. He wasn’t. Morales was said to have been “humiliated” by the unplanned stopover, the victim of yet another yanqui affront to Latin American sovereignty.

Indeed, the wonderful benefit of being a small, Hugo Chávez–influenced Latin American country is that employing measured language of diplomacy pays fewer dividends than unrestrained populist rage, something that one doesn’t frequently hear from the Obama administration. As Chávez well understood—having learned it from Fidel Castro—blame for any problem or self-inflicted disaster is best transferred to the malevolent agents of Washington imperialism.

As the plane drama unfolded, Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera bellowed that Morales had been “kidnapped by imperialism” in an “act of imperial arrogance.” Upon returning to a “hero’s welcome” in La Paz, Morales also blamed “North American imperialism” for the flight rerouting. Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa tweeted that “either we graduated from being colonies, or we must claim our independence, sovereignty, and dignity.” Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner blamed the “vestiges of colonialism,” and live-tweeted her attempt at “diplomacy” with Austria (no grandstanding in that). Not one to be outdone, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua called the incident “totalitarian” and “fascist.”

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/05/edward-snowden-s-parasites-evo-morales-julian-assange-more.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. Shooting the messenger via a back door

What else would expect from the Daily Drivel.

[Catherina]

5. cultural editor of Newsweek

it's a revolving affair

[mitchtv]

2. well they really put those new world savages in their place didn't they?

We (collectively) taught those ignorant South Americans that they are sovereign as long as we say so, and not until. John Kerry's first major failure, more to come.

[chimpymustgo]

4. Racist, colonialist, emperialist drivel. What have we BECOME?

[mitchtv]

6. time for Kerry to go

nt

[Catherina]

3. I am glad they so abruptly dropped their masks and are showing their naked faces to the world

Beforehand, you had to hang out in small places like the Latin American forum to catch these slime-masters at work. Now their ugliness is front page for everyone to see whose interests they serve.

[Enthusiast]

28. You are so right.

Everyone knows now.

[Catherina]

31. Everybody!

See post 29

[pinboy3niner]

7. It has already been posted...

Edward Snowden’s Parasites: Evo Morales, Julian Assange & More
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023175948

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. Ugly slagging from a craven kisser of power's ass.

[sabrina 1]

9. And the stupidity of the Western Media propagandists only confirm the general consensus of the

absence of real news in this country.

Another propagandist who isn't even good at it, but trying hard to be relevant.

Does ANYONE pay attention to our media anymore?

Propaganda, in order to succeed has to come with some indication that the 'catapulter' is in possession of just a small amount of intelligence.

They are getting worse. If you're going to buy something, it's better to buy the best as it will will last longer and cost less in the end. Looks like we are cheaping out on our propagandists. This would seem to be the Rovian response to criticism. Never admit wrong-doing, go on the attack and make ridiculous claims to distract from the facts.

I doubt the President or anyone else who knows the ramifications of pissing off an entire continent, would be so foolish as to take this approach to serious problem like this.

[suffragette]

19. "Rovian response to criticism"

Exactly so.

[sibelian]

10. ...

Let's see who bites.

[Octafish]

11. Evo Morales is a Bolivian of largely indigenous stock.

You know where die Untermenschen rank in the Order.

[Coyotl]

18. Is "stock" related to chattel?

Evo Morales is a Native American!

[Octafish]

35. It most certainly is.

Pero, los pendejitos no saben na'.

[Igel]

38. "Lineage" or "ancestry."

Attested from the 13th or 14th century and refers to the "family tree" metaphor. "Stock" meant "stump". As in "tree stump". It goes back to Common Germanic, so the Angles and Saxons and Jutes (let's not forget the Jutes) brought the word over with them when they moved into England in the 400s through 600s. Any mecantile usage dates to later--I haven't seen anything convincing as to how it jumped from tree trunk to what a merchant has in his posssession.

A standard example is "of European stock." The usage is the same to the present. It's just not very common. "Ancestry" is probably more common.

"Chattel" is just an old word for property. Old North French. Old French gave us "cattle" (don't you like that k > ch change?). I had known the word for years before I heard the phrase "chattel slavery." In the KJV Bible decades before the first wag applied it to slaves. It just meant "property" and is related to the word "capital".

[Coyotl]

12. So, the Cuban embargo must be a "self-inflicted disaster"

Newsweek is just pointing out its own irrelevancy!

[rusty fender]

17. Yeah, and how is having your plane denied

air space passage self-inflicted? The author is dripping with ugly-americanism.

[octoberlib]

13. From the author of this article's (Michael Moynihan) wikipedia page

Last edited Fri Jul 5, 2013, 04:03 PM - Edit history (2)

Michael C. Moynihan is an American journalist and the cultural news editor for The Daily Beast/Newsweek and formally the managing editor of Vice magazine. Before that he was a senior editor of the libertarian magazine Reason. He was a resident fellow of the free-market think tank, Timbro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Moynihan



Libertarians think everybody's a parasite.

[cali]

15. hey thanks. and just what is timbro? Also from Wiki:

Timbro is a libertarian, free market think tank and book publisher based in Stockholm, Sweden, that works to promote ideas, influence legislation and public opinion. Its research and analyses are centered on the core values of individual liberty, economic freedom, an open society and minimizing governmental intervention in the economy.

How ironic is that? I keep getting called a paul-bot and libertarian here by the usual suspects and looky looky at what this piece of dog shit is.

[suffragette]

20. Hmmm, and Reason magazine is a Koch funded publication

[MjolnirTime]

14. Hair on fire?

[cali]

16. why yes, dear, his hair is on fire.

[sibelian]

23. Oh, you MUST be able to think of something else by now...

This has been going on for weeks, for pete's sake. What did they give you, one sheet of A4? Has the departmental photocopier broken? Has the creepy asian girl in the next cubicle defected to Paraguay and left you without the hope of love?

[HangOnKids]

25. She Ran Off With Hong Kong Eddie

She heard that "whistle blower" of his was pretty huge. The cliff note crowd is scrambling for more material. We are seeing Glee repeats at this point.

[sibelian]

36. It's a fucking turkey. The Razzies need a new category.

It's just the stinkiest. Whatever other career choices these losers make, they should leave pitching to the studios to the pros.

I'm sitting here like.... "lovely, just lovely, darling..... NEXT".

[HangOnKids]

37. New Category: Litter Box Flops

We have 7 or 8 potential winners here.

[Hydra]

21. Lol

As we've pointed out before, if anyone had done this to Air Force 1, we'd be justifiably outraged.

The NSA talking point seems to be that Morales is not a "Real" President. Only we're allowed to have one of those.

This has to be the worst hypocrisy I've ever seen trying to be floated. I guess our Gov't thinks they're the only relevant people on the planet.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. My calendar is starting to read 1898....charming

[cali]

24. yep, charming indeed. don't you just love the oh so clever repeated

use of the word "yanqi"?

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Latin American variation to the theme...

Yanqi go home.

[HangOnKids]

27. It Is Like When Your Kid Says Poopie The First Time

Then you hear it 46x a day for the next few weeks.

[Catherina]

29. Related but in Egypt. Egyptians have placed @cnn logo on Muslim Brotherhood logo because....

Hany Ghoraba ‏@Hanyghoraba 5m

Egyptians have placed @cnn logo on Muslim Brotherhood logo due to amount of bogus Pro #MB reporting about #egypt



https://twitter.com/Hanyghoraba/status/353232230727966720

[Ichingcarpenter]

30. I'm reminded of Goebbels

or an old Stalinist propaganda
editorial.




this was not journalism but PR for the status quo.

[Smarmie Doofus]

32. So, is Michael Moynihan a "journalist?"

Or should I start a new thread?

Reportage like this is what got Newsweek sunk.

Here's wishin' em a long life in the far flung, RW bowels of outer internetia.

[Dawson Leery]

33. There is a reason why the libertarian movement is not making any meanigful advances.

[Savannahmann]

34. I was shamed by these tactics when I read them as a boy.

I was under the belief, obviously mistaken, that this kind of bully nonsense was over and done with in the modern world. If I was shamed by it as I read the history as a boy, imagine my reaction when I read them as a man, a century after it should have stopped.

Is there no one in the administration who is pointing out what a colossal loser this is for us? My God, is there no one who understands the limits of power? Let's talk about trade. We act so superior, as though no one would dare cross us and the mighty Dollar.

Bolivia has the largest single concentration of Lithium. You know, that stuff in the battery of your cell phone. Now, do you think that anyone might want to buy Lithium from Bolivia if we walk away holding our heads up proud?

Oil and Natural Gas, nobody wants that these days. So just in natural resources, Bolivia has a bunch, but wait, we're bound and determined to piss off the entire continent. So they cut off the oil, who cares right? So they stop selling Lithium to us, who needs it. Fuck them, the little bastards don't know who they're messing with. Perhaps that is what they are saying.

What are our options? Can we invade? Not even close. Can we use our influence on their neighbors to get them to see things our way? Their neighbors hate us more than Bolivia does. Argentina is pissed we won't back them on the Falkland's, Venezuela, enough said. Should I continue? We aren't well loved in South America, and we are doing it to ourselves, again.

So what happens? Russia and China move in a bit, China can use the Oil and Natural gas, and some of the other minerals. Russia could use the Lithium, and other South American minerals. Our oil prices go up, Obama gets the blame for the gallon of gas going up, Republicans shout and scream that the fact that people can't afford gas or new batteries for their cell phones is because of Obama's bungles.

That is if some American Company doesn't set up in Mexico, and produces Lithium batteries that we are gobbling up like candy at a much inflated price. I wonder if that's why the Administration is pushing this, the chance for greater profit for their corporate interests?

Hell, that makes as much sense as any other excuse I've read.

[Corruption Inc]

39. "Newsweak" is more like it

Pure propaganda from those sellouts.