Stimulus: “Michelle Obama Is Rearranging the Nation’s Dinner Plates:”
Response:“What would Michelle say? President Obama wolfs down TWO chili dogs and fries… the day after his wife unveils new dietary guide,” the London Daily Mail reports:
As somebody once said, “We can’t drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we’re living in the desert or we’re living in the tundra and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world’s energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we’ll be fine. Don’t worry about us. That’s not leadership.”
But as far as the above photo, one of Glenn Reynolds’ readers asks, “Why do we have to get all the news from the British papers?” To which Jim Bennett, formerly of UPI responds:
Because they don’t have to suck up to the White House to get their most important stories.
This is one of the many little revolutions brought on by the Internet and Web. As the Clinton administration discovered, the existence of well-written, well-researched newspapers in English, readily available to the American reader, but beyond their ability to control, threaten, or manipulate has permanently changed the media landscape. Merely by being able to read the British press, we start to see how much the American press has always been manipulated by the American political establishment.
Somebody should write a book about this.
Just to paraphrase Bennett’s comments, I’d add that there are at least 157 reasons why “we have to get all the news from the British papers.”
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