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Dick Morris: Putin’s Attempt to Steal the Ukraine Election Have Backfired. Dick Morris and Eileen McGann are consultants for Viktor Yushchenko’s campaign for the Presidency in Ukraine. They have a great inside view of what’s going on there. Today they write that Putin brazenly attempted to steal that election; and that the attempt has discredited him with the nearby nations he’d hoped to control:
PUTIN’S BIG BLUNDER
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brazen scheme to rebuild the old Soviet Empire by annexing Ukraine has backfired. The backlash is brewing throughout the former Soviet republics that Russia calls its “near abroad.”
In trying to win the electoral contest in Ukraine for his pro-Russian puppet and then seeking to steal an election, Putin sacrificed valuable political capital and credibility in the region. That his allies in the KGB and the Russian Mafia likely sought to poison pro-Western candidate Viktor Yushchenko when they couldn’t defeat him just compounds the blunder.
The overreaching by this would-be czar is most reminiscent of the 1991 Moscow coup attempt by hardline communists. They sought to oust Mikhail Gorbachev and turn the clock back – but instead triggered the liberation of Russia, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the victory of Boris Yeltsin.
...Ukraine is proving – and other Eastern European nations will follow suit – that the former slaves of the Soviet Union can look to the economic life of Europe and the military protection of NATO to lead them to political and economic freedom.
People power is triumphing, and Putin can’t stand it.
A Canard Exposed: “Papers Don’t Print Good News Because Only Bad News Sells.” There’s an often-repeated contention that the reason the mainstream media fails to report the good news from Iraq is that only bad news sells. Just today I heard this repeated by a radio host. This is a canard.
On the front page of today’s LA TIMES, for example, the lead story is “Blast Kills 22 at U.S. Base.” However, the front page also has room for “Real Estate Hunters Go Old School,” and “School Yuletide Observances Shift Into Neutral.”
There’s plenty of space, day after day, to report all the good things that our troops are accomplishing in Iraq.
