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Right Admits FTAA Summit Failed To Convince Public |
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by Mike Lehman
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24 Apr 2001
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It looks like the FTAA is Bush II's biggest failure yet. The excerpt below from the notoriously conservative Washington Times indicates that the FTAA Summit just didn't play well in the press. Fliescher's comment indicates that statements about including labor and the environment, let alone democracy, in official statements was mainly a matter of trying to regain the initaitive from the protesters. You didn't really believe that W and the rest are serious about democracy or worker's rights, did you? |
From the April 23 Washington Times:
Sure the leaders argued, one-by-one in the conference room, that expanded trade would buoy a variety of social causes, but their words seemed flat by comparison with the drama playing out on the streets. So the smell of tear gas, the crackle of canisters being fired by the Surete du Quebec at the agitators, the thump of low-flying helicopters, the rock throwing and the political street theater drew the journalists and dominated coverage of the summit.
President George W. Bush’s spokesman, Ari Fleischer, acknowledged that when talking to journalists as the leaders wrapped up their three-day summit. Asked whether the clashes had affected the summit, he responded: “In terms of substance there was no impact, but on the images that came out, yes.”
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http://www.insightmag.com/cgi-bin/ViewNews.cfm?Item=255
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