Thanks to my daily visit to the great Media Research Center’s Cyberalert page, I find this item: An appropriately-named Canadian journalist, Chrystia Freeland, strikes back at lying liberal-left shouting Bush-haters on American liberalvision… and shows them up for what they are. Liars and obsessed Bush-haters who, like all liberals, think that no matter what they say or how extreme their liberal-left rhetoric, everybody in the room will agree with them.
Damn! Chrystia Freeland is my new hero of this hour.
Of course while she’s a journalist like her key opponent in this exchange, the very liberal Eleanor Clift of al-Newsweek, as the rest of the panel was, Freeland is also a Rhodes Scholar and a graduate of Harvard University. At Oxford, she studied at St. Antony’s College.
Clift Raises Ire of Colleague When She Calls Bush a ‘Dictator’
When, on the McLaughlin Group over the weekend, Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift charged that President Bush is “a dictator who’s ineffective,” an incensed Chrystia Freeland, a Canadian native who is the Managing Editor in the U.S. of London’s Financial Times, scolded Clift for using the dictator label “so loosely” and inaccurately.
Clift opined that of those attending the G-8 summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin is “the only one of those
leaders who goes in there with a commanding popularity among his own people, because he is perceived to be an effective dictator. What we have in this country is a dictator who’s ineffective.” Freeland, shouting over panelists who were trying to move on to other points, retorted: “But he’s not a dictator! I mean we can’t use, no we can’t use these terms so loosely.” Clift backtracked a bit: “Well we have an authoritarian President who is ineffective.” But Freeland stood her ground, pointing out: “You guys can elect your Presidents and there can be a free choice. That’s not the case in Russia.”
A November press release last fall announcing Freeland’s promotion, recounted: “A Canadian national, Ms. Freeland has held a number of senior positions at the Financial Times, including Weekend FT Editor, and Editor of FT.com. She was also Deputy Editor of The Globe & Mail, Toronto, and from 1994 to 1999 she worked at the FT as UK News Editor, Moscow Bureau Chief and Eastern Europe Correspondent.”
Freeland is the author of Sale of the Century, covering Russia’s journey from communism to capitalism.
Clift and her husband, Tom Brazaitis, co-wrote the book, War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics. Clift also co-authored Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling, which forecasts the prospects for a woman on the national ticket. Her latest book is: Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment (October 2003).
I tried to find educational information about Clift to be fair and balanced. But I gave up after reading Wikipedia:
…She has also had bit parts in a few movies.
There are generally no references to undergraduate and graduate degrees in any of her official biographies, so her educational background is not widely known. Nor is there much public information available about her early life.
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