This is decidedly a different take on the news than one finds in the Times or Journal. To wit:
"Spitzer made his mark as a hard-driving prosecutor who specialised in exposing and punishing Wall Street thieves, swindlers and cheats - the typical inhabitants of American executive business suites."
The byline is Rob Reynolds; the media outlet is AL Jazeera. He goes on in the same tone.
"Whatever furtive psycho-sexual compulsions led Spitzer to fling his career into the gutter for the sake of some illicit thrills, at least he did the public a great deal of good by bringing those corporate criminals to account. But as I said, it is a sad affair, and the tortured look on Silda Wall Spitzer's face as she stood beside her husband during his resignation announcement was truly horrifying."
On presidential politics, he writes about Ferraro calling Obama lucky for being black; if, this nitwit said, he were white or a woman, he would not be in the position of being the leading contender for the Democratic nomination for President.
"Obama, who declined to call Ferraro's comments racist, responded by saying that most people would not think it was necessarily an advantage, when you are running for president, to be a black man. While Ferraro was defiantly unapologetic about her remarks, she eventually stepped down, but her comments received only a tepid condemnation from Hillary Clinton. Given the lingering attitudes of some American voters, its quite possible that raising Obama's race in a disparaging way will be of considerable benefit to Clinton. After all, it is not the first time prominent Clinton backers sought to remind voters of Obama's heritage with racially tinged remarks."
"Obama also faces smears and innuendo from the Republican side, with right-wing pundits and radio hosts emphasising the candidates middle name, Hussein, as if to link him to Saddam Hussein in the minds of the ignorant."
I guess this is a column, and not a news story, but, even so, this sort of bluntness is not found in American media -- oops, wait, I forgot Fox News and CNN and all those other 'pundits' whoc scream at one another in 'analyzing' the news.
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