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There is nothing good on the horizon for democrats going into the midterms and the assassination of Shinzo Abe reveals how broken the American press truly is.
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Here in Japan it is July 10th, election day for the House of Councillors. My wife and I shall be going off to vote in the late afternoon, thinking of former Prime Minister Abe, whom we much admired and whose party we support…The contrast that EE draws between NPR’s announcement of Fidel Castro’s death and the assassination of Abe-san is most telling…I wouldn’t listen to NPR, even if I could, but decades ago my family and I spent two years in New York’s North Country, where the NPR station was firmly supported by my lockstep lefty university colleagues at the time. I privately referred to NPR as “North Korean People’s Radio.”
NPR apparently revised its initial description of Abe-san, referring to him as an “ultra-nationalist.” That too is a gross distortion…The English-language press in Japan too has a left-wing bias and prints articles written by English-speaking Japanese journalists and Western Japan watchers that take a drearily predictable line. And then there’s Joe Biden, who couldn’t resist using the terrible event as an excuse to engage in more ranting and raving about guns.
For years, claims that North Korea was abducting Japanese citizens were pooh-poohed not only by the usual Japan bashers but also by much of the Japanese establishment. Abe-san was a notable exception…Requiescat in Pace.