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Hi everyone,
Saw this in 'The Times' last Friday, thought it was interesting:
[From the Media Diary]
'The readers of the Weekly Standard, bible of American neo-conservatives and
a distant colonial cousin of this newspaper [owned by Murdoch then...], have
an unusual grasp of foreign affairs. In its Question of the Week section,
readers were asked to nominate a fourth member for George W.Bush's Evil Axis
of Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Syria was suggested by 32 per cent of
readers, Libya by 7 per cent, but the runaway winner was France which polled
41 per cent.'
I guess the memories of the French nearly bringing down GATT still rankles
with the readers of the Weekly Standard. Either that or the meaning of
'axis of evil'- which went down incredibly badly in Europe, particularly
within the corridors of the EU- means something very different to right wing
Americans...
Hence, and here's the memetics link, how could anyone argue that it's the
idea of an 'axis of evil' that's the meme, as I presume some would?
Vincent
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