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December 19, 2006

Anne Applebaum Can Spin, But Then What?

by AltHippo @ 1:24 pm. Filed under hacks

Again she demonstrates that the Applebaum never falls far from the Bush:

BERLIN — On the day James Baker’s Iraq report was published, I gritted my teeth and waited for the well-earned, long-awaited, Franco-German “Old Europe” gloat to begin. I didn’t wait long. “America Faces Up to the Iraq Disaster” read a headline in Der Spiegel. In the patronizing tones of a senior doctor, Le Monde diagnosed the “political feverishness” gripping Washington in Baker’s wake. Suddeutsche Zeitung said the report “stripped Bush of his authority,” although Le Figaro opined that nothing Baker proposed could improve the “catastrophic state” of Iraq anyway.

Say, ya think that you keep calling them Old Europe, that might be part of the failure we have to communicate? It’s kind of like how Bush likes to refer to the Democratic Party as the Democrat Party. Language talks, and the EU walks.

Also, this: (emphasis mine)

Presumably they didn’t notice that the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, held a “Holocaust denial” conference in Tehran last week — not, perhaps, the clearest signal that he wants to make friends with bien-pensant Europeans — or that the French president, Jacques Chirac, recently declared that his views on Syria exactly matched those of his American counterpart.

Since the highlighted bit isn’t a quote, I can’t verify it. Doing a google search of key words, I can’t come up with anything like that. You sure you aren’t pulling a Krauthammer on us? That’s when you say “it’s widely recognized that…”. or in your case “presumably they didn’t notice that…” followed by something you just made up.

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4 Responses to “Anne Applebaum Can Spin, But Then What?”

  1. brendan Says:
    December 19th, 2006 at 1:53 pm

    “Say, ya think that you keep calling them Old Europe, that might be part of the failure we have to communicate? It’s kind of like how Bush likes to refer to the Democratic Party as the Democrat Party. Language talks, and the EU walks.”

    Awesome, my thoughts exactly.
    No I mean it: I blogged the same thing, checked the post’s “who links here” page, and found this site.
    Why is it that bloggers see this, but Anee Applebaum doesn’t?

  2. KCinDC Says:
    December 19th, 2006 at 10:42 pm

    You seem to be missing a blockquote.

    On Chirac, the best I could find was this:

    According to the report, Chirac told the unnamed European leader: “Syria is a dangerous, murderous and totalitarian country. It’s even worse than North Korea. Assad is using assassinations as a political tool to topple the democratically elected Lebanese government…”

  3. AltHippo Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 10:01 am

    Certainly, I’ve seen some critical statements from Chirac on Syria. And, it’s impossible to know what Anne Applebaum was talking about, because she cloaks it in generic language.

    My first guess was that she was talking about Bush’s policy that Syria should not be part of the solution for Iraq. I would have expected Chirac to consider Middle East (or Near East if you’re in France) talks that could include Syria, instead of the usual cowboy talk we hear from Bush. I could find anything definitive where he layed out his position on that.

  4. Bulworth Says:
    December 20th, 2006 at 2:09 pm

    “My first guess was that she was talking about Bush’s policy that Syria should not be part of the solution for Iraq.”

    You might think, I might think, that the Ann Applebaum’s of the world would have reached the point of recognizing
    that it’s long past the time when the U.S. military in Iraq or the President in the W.H. can dictate who can or
    cannot be a part of the “solution” in Iraq. But we’d be wrong. Reality-based thinking still hasn’t broken through.

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