Rice Charms Black Journalists With Her Spin

CHERYL SEAL REPORTS: Condy Rice Plays the Race Card to Schmooze Black Journalists

http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4663/index.php

That Condy Rice had the nerve to even show up in front of the members of the National Association of Black Journalists amazes me. But as the entire event appears to have been orchestrated and spun by the white media afterwards, guess she knew she had nothing to worry about. Condy Rice is one of two things: a completely deluded fool or a completely corrupt liar. In any case, her performance at a gathering of members of the National Association of Black Journalists in Dallas on August 7 was truly a dry-heave-inducing event. The first nine-tenths of her speech, delivered in a weak, cracking, almost whining voice, was a Bush infomercial, describing just what a wonderful thing the "war on terrorism" is, how much Bush cares about "freedom and justice" and how great it is we are spreading that brand of freedom and justice to the rest of the world, how much safer the Bush folks have made the world from terrorism, and a whole collection of similar fantasy tales.

For example, you may be amazed to learn that the only way to bring freedom and justice to other countries is to invade them (she described this as 'going on the offensive" and "promoting American ideals of freedom" - she also described all people everywhere who subscribe to the Bush version of freedom and justice as "decent people," implying, of course, that if you don't like the Bush plan, you are NOT DECENT. You will also be amazed to learn that we are making "great progress in rebuilding Afghanistan" and that Team Bush has Osama Bin Laden completely on the run (how they would know this, having not seen a glimpse of evidence of his whereabouts since about October 2002, is another bit of fairytale magic).

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I am sure that 99% of the questions the black journalists sitting in the audience wanted to ask never saw the light of day. They were no doubt discarded nearly as soon as they were read by prescreeners. Instead, Rice was given three or four tediously predictable, already-oft-asked questions like (paraphrase) "Did you ever contemplate resigning over the state of the Union speech flap?" Rice was allowed to brush this entire impeachable presidential crime off as being merely an "error in process." And then, we are supposed to believe that she NEVER thinks about the future, or whether Bush will get reelected. None of them do, she implied, they are just so darn busy saving us all and the rest of the world from ourselves.
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why I'm posting: Rice lied/spun the whole speech; I'm wondering what the black journalists that attended have had to say. Rice gets paid well for mouthings that are selling america down the river.

(I am not a 5 sentence person! and only use exclamation points when necessary :) )

Wow, Cheryl, tell us how you *really* feel! lol

Mr. Wickham, comments please?