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Informationclearinghouse: Bush?s ?Excuse and Explanation? on Arab TV Was Worthless and Demeaning

One of the problems with American ethnocentrism is that many Americans assume that because others don?t speak English as well as us, that they don?t think as well as us.

President Bush, Rumsfeld and General Myers have all fallen victim to this nonsense. Bush especially showed this ignorance in his speeches today on Al Hurrah (an American sponsored propaganda TV station that few Arabs watch) and Al Arabiyah (a Saudi TV station that gets only 24% of the Arab market). In addition, Bush pointedly refused to speak on Al Jazeera TV, the station that has over 60% of the Arab market overseas; thus, he cut off his nose to spite an independent, critical Arab TV station.

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