{"id":2965,"date":"2004-11-05T11:03:58","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2965.html"},"modified":"2004-11-05T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T16:03:58","slug":"international-dismay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/international-dismay\/","title":{"rendered":"International dismay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this point, I&#8217;m not entirely sure who feels worse about this year&#8217;s election results, Kerry voters in the U.S. or the rest of the world. Looking at some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2109242\/\">headlines from around the world<\/a>, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s pretty close.<\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/politics\/war_room\/archive.html?blog=\/politics\/war_room\/2004\/11\/04\/mirror\/index.html\">cover<\/a> of Thursday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/\">Daily Mirror<\/a> asks, under a shot of a smirking Bush, &#8220;How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/\">The Guardian<\/a> was fronted by a page of solid black containing just two small words: &#8220;Oh, God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/\">The Independent<\/a> ran the headline &#8220;Four More Years&#8221; along with iconic images from the first Bush term: kneeling prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib, soldiers fighting in Iraq, oil-drilling machinery, sign-wielding religious extremists, and a smirking Dubya.<\/p>\n<p>* In France, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/\">Lib\u00e9ration<\/a> ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liberation.fr\/img\/pdf\/UNE.pdf\">picture<\/a> of the president under the headline, &#8220;<i>L&#8217;Empire empire<\/i>&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;The empire declines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind, England and France are our <i>allies<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point, I&#8217;m not entirely sure who feels worse about this year&#8217;s election results, Kerry voters in the U.S. or the rest of the world. Looking at some of the headlines from around the world, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s pretty close. * The cover of Thursday&#8217;s Daily Mirror asks, under a shot of a smirking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}