[WSIS CS-Plenary] holiday amusement

[mclauglm at po.muohio.edu]

I agree, Bill. And, the truthout story seems to support the analysis, 
what with Rice's support for, and lying about, the US policy of 
torturing prisoners--or sending to other countries where they can be 
tortured without interference. I often wonder why the response of UN 
officials and member-states is so timid that it never amounts to more 
than finger-wagging at the US. Unfortunately, "Kofi" already has a 
name that sounds kind of endearing (remember what happened when he, 
in another capacity, ignored the situation in Rwanda--lots of people 
dead and he got a promotion).

Best,

Lisa


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>>  Even Sidney Blumenthal calls her Condi...:-)
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>>  Perhaps it's like calling George "Dubya," the nick-naming that the
>>  latter is reported to like to indulge in.
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>Yes it's common, but objectionable.  As your Dubya example suggests, using
>nick-names for horrid public officials sort of humanizes and softens them,
>as if they were our neighbors, just regular folks.  And sometimes it gets
>taken further out into the realm of the surreal;  remember when the media
>was variously referring to Rumsfeld as a 'stud' and 'babe magnet?'  Right,
>and Stalin was sweet 'Uncle Joe'...
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>Cheers,
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>Bill
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Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D.
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Editor, Feminist Media Studies
Director of Graduate Studies, M.A. Program in Mass Communication
Union for Democratic Communications Representative,
World Summit on the Information Society

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