Chavez says he wants to 'reset' relations with U.S.

[rabs]

Sounds reasonable.


By RACHEL JONES
Associated Press Writer
CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he hopes to "reset" relations with the United States at an upcoming summit.

Despite recent criticism of President Barack Obama, Chavez said he wants to bring relations between the two governments back to a "rational level."

"I'll be willing to press the reset button," he said in an early morning telephone call to Venezuelan state television from Iran. "I hope that will be the policy of President Obama."

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/984381.html

Meanwhile, Hillary:

The US will not reply to President Hugo Chávez's insults

Clinton said that the US has obviously many problems with President Hugo Chávez and the way he is abusing Venezuelan people


http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/03/30/en_pol_art_the-us-will-not-repl_30A2276243.shtml

[Judi Lynn]

1. Hillary is hopelessly entangled with the Cuban radicals through her brother, his wife and both

her husband's, and her debt to them incurred when each one of them used their lavish financial backing during campaigns.

How dreary and depressing it sounds to hear that same old Cold War, Jesse Helms garbage being spewed out so many decades later. Unbelievable.

The whole world is waiting for a conscious, conscientious, honest American President to step forward and take the reigns, and start conducting respectable business from the White House.

Reading the AP writer's framing the story is so sad. She had to get in some heavy kicks, with spin before she could get along with the story itself.

Chavez sounds very reasonable, alert, normal. Too bad that can't be said for Hillary.

[EFerrari]

2. Not to mention, NAFTA. She'll never admit was a disaster that was

for all of our peoples. And I'm not at all sure Obama can, either.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Chavez wants new, 'rational' relations with U.S.

Chavez wants new, 'rational' relations with U.S.
Sunday, April 5, 2009 3:42 AM
By Rachel Jones
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he hopes to "reset" relations with the United States at an upcoming summit.

Despite recent criticism of President Barack Obama, Chavez said he wants to bring relations between the two governments back to a "rational level."

"I'll be willing to press the reset button," he said in a telephone call to Venezuelan state television from Iran. "I hope that will be the policy of President Obama."

Venezuela's relations with Washington grew strained under Chavez and former President George W. Bush, who was quick to back a failed 2002 coup attempt against Chavez. In September, Chavez expelled the U.S. ambassador and withdrew Venezuela's envoy to Washington.

More:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2009/04/05/ap_venezuela_0405.ART_ART_04-05-09_A9_9HDF7FT.html?sid=101

[Judi Lynn]

4. I just looked at the o.p. again from the Miami Herald, and realized

it was the editor at the Herald who decided to throw in the photo of Chavez with Ahmadinejad to add some reactionary spin to the story, since the story was somewhat more positive than many of them.

Take a look at the same Rachel Jones Associated Press story published by two different sources:

Herald:

Posted on Saturday, 04.04.09
Chavez says he wants to 'reset' relations with U.S.

By RACHEL JONES
Associated Press Writer

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez said Saturday he hopes to "reset" relations with the United States at an upcoming summit.

Despite recent criticism of President Barack Obama, Chavez said he wants to bring relations between the two governments back to a "rational level."

"I'll be willing to press the reset button," he said in an early morning telephone call to Venezuelan state television from Iran. "I hope that will be the policy of President Obama."

Venezuela's relations with Washington grew increasingly strained under former President George W. Bush - reaching a low point in September, when Chavez expelled the U.S. ambassador and withdrew Venezuela's envoy to Washington. His visit to Iran is part of an effort to build ties with other countries at odds with the U.S.

The socialist leader has also been critical of Obama, calling him "ignorant" last month after the U.S. president accused Chavez of "exporting terrorism" and being an obstacle to progress in Latin America.

Link posted above.

Colombus Dispatch:

Chavez wants new, 'rational' relations with U.S.
Sunday, April 5, 2009 3:42 AM
By Rachel Jones
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he hopes to "reset" relations with the United States at an upcoming summit.

Despite recent criticism of President Barack Obama, Chavez said he wants to bring relations between the two governments back to a "rational level."

"I'll be willing to press the reset button," he said in a telephone call to Venezuelan state television from Iran. "I hope that will be the policy of President Obama."

Venezuela's relations with Washington grew strained under Chavez and former President George W. Bush, who was quick to back a failed 2002 coup attempt against Chavez. In September, Chavez expelled the U.S. ambassador and withdrew Venezuela's envoy to Washington.

The socialist leader last month called Obama "ignorant" after the U.S. president accused Chavez of "exporting terrorism" and being an obstacle to progress in Latin America.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2009/04/05/ap_venezuela_0405.ART_ART_04-05-09_A9_9HDF7FT.html?sid=101

Look at those fourth paragraphs: the Miami Herald completely rewrites the paragraph, omitting the part about _Bush backing the coup, and inserting crap about Iran. How does one explain this?

[rabs]

5. Great catch, you should post this on the LBN thread

That is amazing Judi.

Obviously the Herald did not count on an astute reader comparing the Herald's re-written text with another newspaper. (Will look around at some other newspapers that carried the story to make sure the Columbus paper did not edit that paragraph for brevity.)

FYI the AP copyright rules prohibit clients (like the Miami Herald) from re-writing or injecting opinion or anything into its dispatches. It might be a good idea to send the two versions to the AP international editor in New York to show the Herald's blatant violation of the copyright. At some newspaper, that could result in someone getting fired.

p.s. Have you seen The Official Story yet? Or is the DVD thingy still disconnected? :)

[Judi Lynn]

9. It really makes you sick seeing how much spin is packed into the Herald version.

It would be so useful if people started really examining just what it is they're seeing from these "journalists." We're getting handed so much propaganda every day, aren't we?

I also wish there were a law forbidding reporters to infuse their original writing with deliberate force-feedings of continual attacks on leftists rather than dealing with the issues directly at hand.

Regarding The Official Story, finally got the new tv connected, ready for the showing as soon as we're organized and can have the time to put everything aside so we can concentrate on it fully. I read it won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globe, Best Picture at Toronto, and cleaned up at Cannes, while remaining unfamiliar with most Americans. That happened with the film Costa-Gavras made on the thinly disguised story of American State Department torturer in Uruguay (and Brazil), Dan Mitrione, State of Siege.

These films are suppressed because they would educate Americans on what this country has been supporting, and doing directly against democracy in other countries.

I had to peek at the opening moments of the film, and can see it looks VERY well done. Really looking forward to this one, really fired up, and I'm so glad you informed us about it in the first place.

[rabs]

6. It looks like the Columbus paper may have edited the paragraph

because several other newspapers have the same paragraph as the Herald. I could not find the same exact paragraph that the Columbus Dispatch used in any of the other newspapers.

Still, it is a good catch and the AP will be interested in finding out about this.

[Billy Burnett]

7. Typical Miami Herald trash.

Nice find, Judi. :hi:

Reminds me of the old US/Cuba relations board, back during the Elian days. Remember? The Miami Herald would edit, and insert RW exile editorializations, AP and UPI stories in violation of the respective news orgs agreements w/the paper. Then other news sources would pick up the Herald's edited version. Then the AP and UPI sent warnings to the Herald/el Nuevo Herald that made it to E&P online.

They're still at it. The librul media at work.

[Mika]

8. Also, along side of the fake stories come the photoshopped fake pictures.

Real crazy clowns running those Miami rags.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Who can forget one of their journalistic milestones, the bogus photo of hookers standing beside cops

in Havana?
http://www.editteach.org.nyud.net:8090/news_multi_media/20060728-92548-single.jpg
Clues to Deception: In the doorway in the background, there is a sharp variation in light between the right and left sides; note the difference in perspective between the police officers and prostitutes; the police officers cast shadows -- the prostitutes don't.
Photo of Havana hookers.

A striking, five-column color photo was splashed across the Sunday, June 25 edition of El Nuevo Herald. It showed four spandex-clad prostitutes in Cuba hailing a foreign tourist. Just a few feet away, two policemen conversed with a little girl and a woman. The headline: "Hookers: The Sad Meat of the American Dollar."

The cops obviously didn't care about the working girls — a clear sign of the hypocritically wanton ways of Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Problem is, the picture was a fake. Indeed it was just the kind of manipulated combination of two images that prompted the Los Angeles Times to fire staff photographer Brian Walski in 2003. Walski, you may recall, altered two photos of an American soldier to make them appear as one, more dramatic image. Several papers unknowingly published the combo on their front pages, and Thom McGuire, a Hartford Courant assistant managing editor, said the incident made him "sick to my stomach."

El Nuevo's sin was worse. Its image — on page 27A — appeared with the caption "The government has proven incapable of confronting the dramatic phenomenon of prostitution" and a story about a book on Cuba's working girls by author Amir Valle.

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2006-07-27/news/listen-up-mcclatchy

[Judi Lynn]

10. Yes, surely DO remember discovering that strange habit they've got there.

El Progreso has had a full time job catching the unsubstantiated claims and twistings of the truth from the Herald in its daily on-line publication. Some of their dirty tricks have been astounding, and a real repudiation of the principles of journalism.

What other paper would fire Max Castro and keep the dregs they've got there now? It's also no surprise a bunch of their writers were discovered to also be on the _Bush administration payroll, writing for the U.S. government while also writing their articles for the Herald.

"Librul media." Most preposterous charge in American history. Unbelievable.

I think the right-wing started this myth, and believe it more day by day, as I hear hate radio voices screaming about the "librul media." What this nation-wide lie actually boils down to is:

Don't believe anything you hear or read unless we, the right-wing authorities tells it to you. We are the only ones you can or should trust.

So they get rid of newspapers, and all that is left is hate radio telling people what the reality is, THEN what do we have? Holy swear words!

[EFerrari]

12. I was hoping they'd get better when McClatchy bought them.

Instead, McClatchy seems to have become contaminated.