This piece of spin is so bad, it's good. (CSM)

[EFerrari]

Honduras crisis: Did Zelaya snub Hugo Chávez for Brazil?
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya chose to hole up in Brazil's embassy out of concern that his ties to Venezuela's Hugo Chávez would diminish his support in Honduras.
By Sara Miller Llana | Staff writer

Mexico City and São Paulo, Brazil - Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chávez never misses a chance to put himself front and center.

After the Honduran military ousted President Manuel Zelaya on June 28, Mr. Chávez loudly condemned the US for a lukewarm response and said he would send his own forces to Central America to boost his ally if need be.

But when Mr. Zelaya returned to Tegucigalpa after three months in exile on Monday, he conspicuously turned to Brazil for help, not Venezuela. As police fired tear gas at Zelaya supporters on Tuesday, he was holed up in Brazil's embassy, not Venezuela's.

Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim stood behind Zelaya saying Tuesday that his country will not tolerate any actions against the embassy.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0922/p90s04-woam.html

Sara is mistaking the crisis in Honduras for an episode of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman". lol

[Peace Patriot]

1. LOL! Lucy telling Charlie Brown, 'Go ahead and kick the football...'.

'Damned if you do, damned if you don't...Hu-u-u-ug-o-o-o-o-o...'.

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What a pitiful skunk the CSM has become.

[EFerrari]

3. The Brookings Institute?

That's not even trying. :)

[flamingdem]

2. I agree, how silly, but hey they would have dropped a bomb on the Venezuelan Embassy

so not such a bad idea to go with Brazil considering!

[Judi Lynn]

4. The writer and her helper would feel better out in the streets pounding people with the cops.

They could pretend they are beating Chavez over and over again.

This article should have been sent to Fox. It's tailor-made for that audience.

Not able to rest with him at the Brazilian embassy, they resort to claiming Hugo Chavez thought it all up, anyway. Just having him still alive in their world at the same time drives insane.

And look at the photo they chose to show what a bum Zelaya is, a man who had spent the last two days traveling on foot, and on tractor, etc., over they mountains, through the valleys and across rivers to get home, after being separated from his own family all these months.

Pompous, insulated, over protected idiots at at the Christian Science Monitor.

[Downwinder]

5. Narco News addresses (decimates) this article:

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3450/what-some-us-reporters-dont-get-about-brazil-and-honduras-crisis

[Judi Lynn]

6. Recommending your NarcoNews article. It's a must read. Good video, too.

Great point made that people living in the barrio can only get the cops to come there at times like this, when they come to invade and beat people up, and NEVER come to help them.

Beautiful work on the "news" media's reporting on Honduras.

[Peace Patriot]

7. Excellent analysis at NarcoNews! They've really been on top of this one,

with live reporting from Honduras and brilliant analysis as well. Al Giordano's analysis of the US State Dept briefing is particularly enlightening. Zelaya's return was most certainly coordinated by Brazil and the U.S. (--and others--Venezuela provided the plane that got Zelaya as far as El Salvador and lord knows how many countries and people got him over the mountains, through the valleys, and into the Brazilian embassy in the trunk of car!) But the startling thing is that the US (Obama/Clinton) seem finally to have gotten a handle on the situation within our own government, and are doing the right thing! Hallelujah! At last!

I'm more and more convinced that the coup was a rightwing plot hatched in this country--by McCain, Negroponte, Reich and that lot, working with Bush moles in the State Dept., diplomatic corps, CIA, Pentagon and other US entities--a) to sabotage Obama's stated policy of peace, respect and cooperation in Latin America, and b) as part of a Rumsfeld-era oil war plan in South America. The US role in returning Zelaya to Honduras is the first sign that Obama does not agree with the war plan, and possibly a sign that Clinton--no matter what her personal inclinations might be--is genuinely trying to implement the President's stated policy, and that they have gotten hold of the situation. If an internal struggle has occurred within the US government, this might also explain why Obama/Clinton never designated this coup as a military coup, which would not only have triggered an automatic cutoff of aid, but would also--importantly--have required that Congress endorse the designation, and Congress is full of Puke and "Blue Dog" vipers who support the coup.

Another possibility is that Clinton changed, under intense international and local Honduran pressure--that she was at first inclined to wink at the coup or maybe was even collusive with it, but soon realized--with Latin America and world reaction, and the grass roots democracy movement by the Honduran people--that her agenda in Latin America (i.e., the US corporate agenda) would soon be dead in the water, as a result of this coup, which was widely perceived as a US coup, despite US statements to the contrary. I really don't know for sure what may have occurred, internally--just that something changed over the last few weeks, and the US ended up on the right side (the pro-democracy side ) of this conflict, after dithering around for months (or seeming to dither around--if a "hawks vs doves" struggle was going on, they weren't dithering; they were trying to find their way around the Bushwhack plot) .

Anyway, Al Giordano and the other reporters at NarcoNews have been truly excellent on this unfolding story. There could not be a better demonstration of what they mean by "authentic journalism."

[Downwinder]

8. Al was a bit of an apologist for Hilary until

Lanny Davis hit the water and then Bill Conroy's piece on the MCC funding. Other than that he has been right on the mark. Lets hope that it continues that way.