Here is Michel Martelly, one of the two conservative candidates vying to be next president of Haiti, courtesy of Kim Ives in an Institute for Public Accuracy release:
In the years following Aristide’s restoration to power in 1994, Martelly became obsessed with hatred for the man. In a video from not too long ago, which can be seen on YouTube, the candidate threatens a patron in a bar where he has performed. “All those shits were Aristide’s faggots,” he says. “I would kill Aristide to stick a dick up your ass.”… [Video]
The New York Times has a profile today (3/18/11) of Martelly which alludes to this video–while omitting the worst part. The piece is headlined “A Roguish Candidate Taps Haitians’ Discontent.”The Times‘ take on the video is thatMartelly “describes a sex act he would perform on a former president whose politics he disliked.” The piece goes on to refer to Martelly’s opinion of Aristide as”the popular former priest and two-time president he so obscenely dismissed.”
He said he wanted to kill him–that’s more than an obscene dismissal.
In another Times piece on Haiti, the paper calls Aristide a “former firebrand priest beloved by the poor but dismissed by others as corrupt,” before drawing this equivalence:
He will be the second polarizing figure in Haitian politics to return in recent months: Jean-Claude Duvalier, the former dictator known as Baby Doc, suddenly returned from exile in January and is living quietly here while courts iron out pending human rights and corruption charges related to his government.
As we pointed out before, comparing Aristide’s human-rights record to Duvalier’s bloody reign is obscene.
Re: In another Times piece on Haiti, the paper calls Aristide a “former firebrand priest beloved by the poor but dismissed by others as corrupt,”..
Could they at least NAME some “others”? I don’t expect them to name the poor; and I’m guessing that the”others” aren’t.
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Oedipus complex. “’nuff said.”
Yet another nail in the Time’s journalistic coffin. Who writes this stuff?
Well how can you blame Time Mag for being a scorpion? That is our way now, political lackeys for the powerful who want to rule over us. Just so you know that when you read it to be careful what you accept as true.
Time is not what it used to be……….IMPORTANT!This article is a mess.
Comparisons between Baby Doc and Aristide are obscene why? Because you said so? I am not sure if you’ve ever been to Haiti or reported during either of their rules, but those who were there during Aristide’s tenure — particularly from 2000 to 2004 — have no trouble comparing the two. Read from Haitians who were covering the massacres carried out by Aristide’s forces, or from the few foreign journalists who were there at the time, who call Aristide one of the country’s worst despot’s ever, or Human Rights Watch, for that matter.
It’s the same old story for FAIR: you buy into a line given by just certain journalists — in this case Amy Goodman and DN — and then misuse their propaganda as fact in your quest to bash mainstream outlets. How about you actually do what FAIR purports to support; some fair and accurate journalism.
I just read on the readersupportednews.org site (yesterday) that the predatory crime brothers “Koch Industries” basically owns the “Conservatives” and to me, that explains a lot, even watching from here, in Canada!