In a previous post, I alluded to the New York Time piece that attempted to establish the conflict that the Times obviously hopes it can follow over the coming days and weeks: Israel feeling short-changed by Obama\u2019s even-=handedness.<\/p>\n
Here is<\/a> the L. A. Times \u201canalysis \u201c of the speech. The headline \u201cMuslims not sure speech means real change.\u201d The sub-head: Obama’s speech in Cairo is eloquent, the rhetoric soaring, but many <\/em><\/strong>[emphasis added] in the audience are left wondering whether the charismatic president can follow it with new policies and actions.<\/p>\n How many Muslims feel that way? Well, there was this, ah, one blogger<\/p>\n But many in this region want deeds and progress much sooner, and believe that the speech was more of a balancing act than an aggressive agenda. "He’s speaking in the right direction, but we need to see what follows," Ibrahim Hudaiby, a blogger and member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. "It’s time for action. . . . The devil is in the details."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I\u2019m not sure how one blogger equals \u201cmany in this region.\u201d<\/p>\n And then there were the undefined \u201cactivists and dissidents.\u201d<\/p>\n His remarks on expanding democracy drew applause from the audience, but they were couched in too much diplomacy for Egyptian activists and dissidents whose voices have been squelched for nearly 28 years by Obama’s host, President Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n That\u2019s it, folks. This reporter, a one Jeffrey Fleishman, who, I\u2019m judging by his name does not have a direct line to Muslim thinking, somehow makes the conclusion that \u201cMuslims not sure speech means real change.\u201d Granted, Fleishman didn\u2019t write the headline, but then a the very least, someone need to talk to the copy editor, for the head is thin gruel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a previous post, I alluded to the New York Time piece that attempted to establish the conflict that the Times obviously hopes it can follow over the coming days and weeks: Israel feeling short-changed by Obama\u2019s even-=handedness. Here is the L. A. Times \u201canalysis \u201c of the speech. The headline \u201cMuslims not sure speech… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,47,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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