Focus yourself on the outrage from the Right Wing controlled MSM if Democratic Mayor Richard Daley along with several Clinton administration officials traveled to the anti-American country of France to meet with a Muslim group the Bush administration legally labeled nothing less than a terrorist organization. While in Paris-- foreign soil mind you-- this same delegation of Democrats used their face time with a bona fide terrorist group to speak out against the policies of the President of the United States. Could you possibly imagine the outrage that would follow if that did happen??
Well, it did. Except it was Republicans Rudy Giuliani and former Bush officials Michael Mukasey, Tom Ridge, and Fran Townsend who traveled to Paris to meet with (MEK) -- a group declared by the U.S. since 1997 to be a terrorist organization. And since it was Republicans meeting with terrorists to undermine President Obama the whole Great American Retreat to Paris was faintly covered by the media; and when it was, not even close to the paranoia and hate it would have been if Democrats had done it to Bush.
Glenn Greenwald makes a great case for why according to Bush-era DOJ laws the group of Republicans should be prosecuted.
*Update:
A Patriotic flashback into time, eons ago, to show how the Republican-controlled media focused on and treated Democrats who went abroad to discuss foreign policy with heads of state or members of foreign governments when the Great George Bush was president. Here, here, here and here for a few examples.
Compare and contrast that to today's scant coverage of Republicans traveling to foreign countries to meet with terrorist supporting organizations for the primary reason of undermining the President of the United States. Notice, too, that not only is the coverage of what is no doubt blatant anti-Americanism by Republicans next to non-existent, any coverage of it all by the MSM in no way calls it treasonous, anti-American or labels it anything close to the "Neville Chamberlain of our time," like the Republican-controlled media did when Bush was in power.
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