HERE THEY COME:
THE NEW YORK POST CAPTURES THE MOOD OF THE EXTREME RIGHT. Never a newspaper for people with deep thoughts, the New York Post published a cover on Friday in which the tabloid’s photo editors had superimposed the heads of weasels over the faces of the foreign ministers of France and Germany. The accompanying headline read: "U.N. MEETS—weasels to hear new Iraq Defense." It was, said one New Yorker, the kind of mindless, thuggish caricature that one saw the extreme right publishing in Europe in the period leading up to the outbreak of World War II. Global Beat
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