PROPAGANDA ALERT - now at least we get a heads up when the propaganda is coming. Condi is bringing Jack Straw to America and showing him... the South. From Reuters:
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will host Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in the United States for a three-day, stage-managed tour with political overtones.Alabama is the best of America? I guess now we see the Republican point of view. If Alabama is the best of America, then I completely understand "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
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Jim Wilkinson, her image guru, outlined a program of U.S. events, including the two taking center-stage for the opening coin toss at an American football game, indicating the unusual tour was more photo opportunity than foreign policy. ROB'S NOTE: Why are tax dollars going to an "image guru"?
Their time together in Alabama, the place Rice grew up in the racially divided South, will include serious speeches on civil rights and minorities, Wilkinson said, noting Straw's parliamentary constituency had a large Muslim population.
Wilkinson said the new venture with the top diplomat from Washington's closest ally was a way of showing off "the best of America".
