A One for Our Side
Its past midnight in Lebanon, and there it is: MY ARTICLE in the popular Daily Star. The Star has a relatively progressive opinion section and takes on issues that often taboo in the rest of the ME.
I had sent The Daily Star at least 20 previous submissions in the past year and I dont know what hooked them on this one, except that it was written specifically for a Middle Eastern audience and is very informative. It’s much less of a rant than my last article in the Arab News. If I had to guess, I would say the issues of censorship and politcal strong-arming have ressonance in Lebanon.
Allowing Michael Moore and his mistruths free reign, the Democrats have tried to censor the Swift Boat Veterans. Democrats have attempted to interfere with the publication of the Swift Vets book Unfit for Command and intimidate bookstores that carry it. The Kerry campaign has sent letters to television stations urging them not to run the ad. Kerrys campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing the Bush campaign of collaboration with the Swift Vets. Kerry is demanding that President Bush, who has long opposed all the 527 political intervention, condemn this one ad in particular.
I did send the article to at least 40 newspapers in the US (all in swing states) and nuthin. I find it consistantly much easier to publish a pro-Bush article in the Middle East than here in the US.
Related : Michelle prints a rather scathing letter from an unaligned Vietnam veteran disecting Kerry’s Book: A lot has been made of John Kerry volunteering for combat. On page 104 of his book, it reads; “John Kerry would be training in San Diego for what he thought would be purely coastal patrolling of Operation Market Time, whose objective was to establish a barrier along the coast of Vietnam to interdict the infiltration of insurgent supplies by sea.”
