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[Harold]

The Nation's lead editorial today is a rather feeble attempt to answer the recent editorial by the Washington Post criticizing the Abhisit government. The editorial starts off with the Nation complaining about foreingners "lecturing us on democracy." It goes downhill from there.

In the end, the editorial essentially denies that there is a Bangkok elite with army allies and friendly judges who keep overturning election results with coups and court decisions. Instead, the nation blames all of Thailand's "problems with democracy" on one man: you guessed it: Thaksin Shinawatra.

When I finished reading the whole thing, all I could think was, if this is the best defense of the current government that the Nation could muster, they should have not bothered. If anything, they made the status quo look even more indefensible.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/...--30134009.html

[B.I.G.]

That's got to be the most feeble defense I have ever read of what's happened here since the coup. Thaksin is to blame for everything, including the two friendly court decisions ousting PM Samak and PM Somchai from the office parliament elected them to. It boggles the mind that any self-respecting editor would allows such political garbage to be printed.

[Hedda]

It boggles the mind that any self-respecting editor would allows such political garbage to be printed.

If you think that editorial is bad, take a look at what the Nation's editor-in-chief had to say on Friday about what he calls "militant journalism." Either this man doesn't read his own paper or he deserves a Pulitzer-NOT for the dirtiest pot ever to call a kettle black. He complains bitterly about "how Thai 'democracy' was hijacked from the rest of us," as if the propaganda rag he has allowed his newspaper to become has not been one of the most egregious proponents of this "militant journalism." One wonders if such men are simply political shills masquerading as journalists or if they honestly see themselves as members of the fourth estate who have simple lost all concept of what journalistic ethics are supposed to be about. The fact that they choose to call themselves journalists would be laughable but for the tragic failure they represent to the national struggle for democracy.

Read it and judge for yourself:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/...a-30133782.html

[gay_grampa]

Not surprising that the usual Thailand bashers of this forum think that an American newspaper can do no wrong and that a Thai newspaper must be wrong by definition!

You seem to have glossed over the Nation’s essential point that the root cause of the problem can be traced back to the pro-Thaksin, Samak government’s attempt to change the constitution in order to whitewash Thaksin’s corruption.

In reply to the Washington Post I say that it is a credit to the freedom of the press in Thailand that many foreign journalists have not been charged with sedition and that they are still able to peddle their distorted crap.

[BORG]

it is a credit to the freedom of the press in Thailand that many foreign journalists have not been charged with sedition and that they are still able to peddle their distorted crap.

You really are a fascist. I wonder if you even realize what a dinosaur you are.

[UncleSam]

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I think we know now why Gramps posted this photo of Francesco Franco two days ago. He's probably been carrying it around in his wallet for 70 years. No doubt, Gramps would have jailed that Spanish basher, Ernest Hemingway, for writing a seditious novel like For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Go Gramps ! Someone's got to try to save some small piece of the world for fascism.

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[gay_grampa]

Well it didn't take long for some of Hedda's Hydras to come out and shout 'Facist' just because someone has had the temerity to take a different point of view.

It is not unknown for 'respected' American media to lie, deceive and alter the truth. I refer, of course, to Dan Rather getting the boot from CBS.

And 'respected' British media have been caught altering photos (Reuters and The Economist)

The Washington Post's convenient omission of essential facts to hold up it's flaccid argument against the Thai government may be the next example.

[UncleSam]

Well it didn't take long for some of Hedda's Hydras to come out and shout 'Facist' ...

You're just lucky we're not playing scrabble for money.

Hehehe....

[Garcia]

Not surprising that the usual Thailand bashers of this forum ...

What makes you think that your endless bashing of the red shirts isn't Thai bashing ? Or do only the rich privileged ones you so admire in Bangkok count as Thais ?