Important note for readers: These Jacko-whackos do NOT speak for all Germans
Will this trial ever END??? Pleease let it end...&*%@!
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Update: A little more comic relief at No Pasaran!
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The Debate
- "In much of Europe's public debate, the true meaning of human rights has degenerated into a tool that gives anti-Americanism an aura of legitimacy. The real, horrendous human-rights violations in the Middle East, North Korea, China, Cuba, etc., are largely ignored or relegated to news blurs on the back pages. For front-page coverage, you need an American angle." ---The Wall Street Journal
- "I discovered that European social democracy, too, was a kind of fundamentalism, rigid and doctrinaire, yielding what Swedish writer Johan Norberg calls "one-idea states"—nations where an echo chamber of insular elites calls the shots, where monochrome media daily reiterate statist mantras and shut out contrarian views, and where teachers and professors systematically misrepresent the U.S. (millions of Europeans believe that free public schools, unemployment insurance, and pensions are unknown in America). The more I saw of the European elites' chronic distrust of the public, and the public's habitual deference to those elites, the fonder I grew of the nasty, ridiculous rough-and-tumble of American democracy..." ---Bruce Bawer
- "In the European media as well as on the public stage, prizes and publicity go overwhelmingly to Americans who serve as witnesses against their own government and nation. (...) The defense mechanism is simple enough: "After all, they are saying this, too, so how can we be accused of anti-Americanism?" A similar phenomenon attaches itself to Israel, where "post-" or anti-Zionist spokesmen are given top billing in the European media." ---Josef Joffe
- "The point is to be aware that for many of the foreigners issuing what they claim to be "simply constructive criticism", the evidence shows that criticizing America is all they do, criticizing America is all they ever have done, and criticizing America is all they ever will do." ---Erik Svane, Americans Anonymous
- "To get an impression, take a look at David's Medienkritik, a Web log in English dedicated, among other things, to exposing biased reporting on the United States in the German media. Be it stories about the war in Iraq, the conduct of U.S. soldiers abroad, American reservations regarding the Kyoto Protocol and the International Criminal Court or even the Katrina disaster, more often than not the German public is presented with a distorted picture. There are laudable exceptions. But generally the blows are low, and the public is left to form its opinion base on half-truths and false analyses." ---Julian Knapp
- "Negative sentiments and views have been driven not only - or even primarily - by what the United States does, but rather by an animus against what Europeans have believed that America is. While the politics, style, and discourse of the Bush terms - and of President Bush as a person - have undoubtedly exacerbated anti-American sentiment among Europeans and fostered a heretofore unmatched degree of unity between elite and mass opinion in Europe, they are not anti-Americanism's cause. Indeed, a change to a center-left administration in Washington, led by a Democratic president, would not bring about its abatement, let alone its disappearance." ---Andrei Markovits
- "Anti-Americanism is hypocrisy at its finest. You can spend your evening catching the latest episode of "24" and then complain about Guantanamo the next morning. You can claim that the Americans have themselves to blame for terrorism, while at the same time calling for tougher restrictions on Muslim immigration to Germany. You can call the American president a mass murderer and book a flight to New York the next day. You can lament the average American's supposed lack of culture and savvy and meanwhile send off for the documents for the Green Card lottery. Not a day passes in Germany when someone isn't making the wildest claims, hurling the vilest insults or spreading the most outlandish conspiracy theories about the United States. But there's no risk involved and it all serves mainly to boost the German feeling of self-righteousness." ---C.C. Malzahn
- "The protests against nuclear weapons, for instance, concentrated on American weapons. The anti-war rallies were against American-led wars. The anti death penalty campaign focused on Texas. A pattern was emerging and has never seriously been altered. A pattern of willingness to condemn America for the tiniest indiscretion - or to magnify those indiscretions - while leaving the murderers, dictators, and thieves who run other nations oddly untouched." ---Justin Webb
- The fundamental role of anti-Americanism in Europe in general, and particularly among those on the Left, is to absolve themselves of their own moral failings and intellectual errors by heaping them onto the monster scapegoat, the United States of America. For stupidity and bloodshed to vanish from Europe, the U.S. must be identified as the singular threat to democracy (contrary to every lesson of actual history)." ---Jean-François Revel
- "In five years there will be a different President and Iraq will likely be pacified. That would naturally have impacts on the strength of the resentments that have fixed themselves onto certain individuals in the present situation. But beneath the surface smolder the long-burning embers of latent anti-Americanism. It has a long tradition and will remain, also when President Bush is no longer in office and Palestine is peaceful." ---Lutz Erbring
- "A writer for the German weekly Der Spiegel told me during the Iraq debate not to take offense at the crude anti-American covers of the magazine such as the ugly, bearded, drooling Rambo figure it used to show the typical GI in Iraq. 'We're just trying to please our million readers,' he explained." ---Jeff Gedmin
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Monday, hopefully.
Posted by: Mike H. | June 11, 2005 at 07:11 PM
I don't know if the drawing of Jackson on the banner is useful, lol.
Posted by: SleepingInSeattle | June 11, 2005 at 07:26 PM
Tabloid blogism. It's your blog guys, but is this really a story worthy of Davids Medienkritik?
Posted by: beimami | June 11, 2005 at 07:46 PM
Comic relief? Geezus.
Posted by: SleepingInSeattle | June 11, 2005 at 08:29 PM
Hey, only in America can a poor young black man grow up to be a rich old white woman.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom | June 11, 2005 at 10:44 PM
@ beimami:
I'm just going to tell you what I always tell anyone who makes that kind of comment. You are welcome to ignore postings you don't like. I think it is perfectly alright for us as bloggers to have some fun occasionally and do something less serious or off topic. It is our blog after all. Again, if you disagree, you are welcome to just ignore the post.
---Ray D.
Posted by: Ray D. | June 12, 2005 at 12:39 AM
Er, why is Vampire-Jacko bending to suck the blood of a tiny Mao? Do I really want to know?
Posted by: Angie Schultz | June 12, 2005 at 01:37 AM
@ Sgt. Mom
HAHAHAHA!
Posted by: Carl Densing | June 12, 2005 at 02:29 AM
That's just so very...sad. If I were a German tax payer, I'd want a refund of whatever goes towards the school system.
Nice to know people are nuts in every part of the world.
Posted by: lost one | June 12, 2005 at 05:58 AM
Germany fights with everyone.
Posted by: PacRim Jim | June 12, 2005 at 06:54 AM
The best showcase of the crowd outside the Michael Jackson trial was done by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Posted by: Doug | June 12, 2005 at 11:43 AM
Unless I have missed it because its more of a TV subject perhaps, would it be fair to say that the potential on this case for the media to have depicted Americans as absolutely barmy by getting every eccentric Jacko fan out there to make a statement was immense? Add then statements from a few law and order types willing to use the words "kiddy fiddler", "wierdo" and "pervert" while making an issue of his skin colour/ lack of it and the media could have had a field day portraying the USA as a crazy country where Jacko has no chance of getting a fair trial etc...
I didnt see any of these types of programs here myself, nor have I read loads of such articles or even heard anyone much such silly statements in a pub. Perhaps its what I watch, read or who i hang out with BUT I am pretty sure that the media has actually behaved itself and not used this as a chance to trash the USA. Not saying that the media deserve praise for not being anti-American but its nice to note.... unless I missed something?
@PacRim Jim
"Germany fights with everyone."
LOL
Posted by: Doughnut Boy Andy | June 12, 2005 at 11:43 AM
Well, actually noticed the same thing with the Newsweek hoopla as well. There wasn't much discussion in either way about that on the News here.
Posted by: Guano | June 12, 2005 at 10:10 PM
I swear that the Michael in that poster slipping that baby some tounge! :)
Posted by: Steve | June 13, 2005 at 07:20 AM
women
Posted by: Irena Mitzka | June 13, 2005 at 12:15 PM
rolleyes
Posted by: Irena Mitzka | June 13, 2005 at 12:15 PM
Well, the trial is over. The supporters can all go back to where ever they came from and Michael can go back to buggering boys.
Posted by: Don Miguel | June 14, 2005 at 12:21 AM
So you guys here belive that Jackson is guilty i don´t klnow abd don´t care.
But i wait for the official postings bashings about the failure of the american court system etc as you did with the german some days ago.
So here a headline:
with enough money you don´t have to fear justice.
The unfair american sstem from O J Simpson to michael jackson
You belive that such a posting would be not true or simply stupid biased and wrong
That´s true but you guys don´t care when you post the same biased childish shit about germany.
Posted by: | June 14, 2005 at 10:04 AM
@ anonymous:
Where did we ever say he was guilty? We just wanted the darn trial to end finally...
And as far as the justice system goes: It is true: In every nation in the world those who are wealthy have the advantage. It helps to have money, no doubt about it.
It's just that the German media sometimes makes it appear that the USA is the only nation in which that is the case. In fact, the German justice system has many issues and problems of its own and that is what we wanted to point out.
Posted by: Ray D. | June 14, 2005 at 05:43 PM
25 million Iraqis under the boot of a murderous criminal ba'athist regime aren't worth demonstrating over . . . but . . .
Tyranno
Posted by: Tyranno | June 15, 2005 at 11:01 PM