A tale of two newspapers: Us versus them

by editor on May 5, 2011

When George Bush said, “You’re either with us or you’re against us,” he knew exactly what he was talking about.

Here’s how two Melbourne, Australia newspapers headlined the Bin Laden assassination in side-by-side street racks.

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Source: Andrew Bolt

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KimmyQueen May 5, 2011 at 3:44 pm

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Wow! That is actually pretty amazing to see the difference in ideology.

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Daric May 5, 2011 at 4:02 pm

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This shows two different outlooks on the killing of Osama. I think the newspaper that says, “how we got him”, was speaking of when President Bush said, in his State of the Union address that, “If you are not with us, you are against us”. And the other newspaper has an outlook that this effort of killing Osama was only because America has fought the war on terror on its own. Though it may have been U.S. soldiers that killed him with the go-ahead from Obama, I believe all soldiers from every Country that has fought, lost loved ones, and have stayed the course against terrorism should get a part of the credit.

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Robert May 5, 2011 at 4:22 pm

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Couldn’t agree more with you Daric. Herald sun seems to recognise the combined effort of the US and it’s allies who have stayed the course together with us this whole time. Something I see as the more correct view.

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KimmyQueen May 5, 2011 at 7:32 pm

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Obamie is not going to share credit with Bush, so he must certainly won’t share credit with the international forces even though he is so into being the citizen of teh world thing.

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KimmyQueen May 5, 2011 at 7:31 pm

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I agree.

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matthew s harrison May 5, 2011 at 4:52 pm

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My wife and I lived in Oz when we were first married. We fell in love with the people there. However, there was then, a smell of libtards taking over. The commies were in full effect-and since then, have taken over. They have a similar problem to ours-a yearning for the 60′s bomb-throwing, free love and dope on every corner….and they are accomplishing it. They have an horrific heroin problem, and they have allowed an unfettered flow of islamists into the country-so much so that they are actually paying known terrorists from the public funds(the dole as they call it). It is a lost nation-and won’t be around much longer as it once was. They are following in their big sister’s footsteps(the UK). And they won’t come out of it well.
New Zealand is great though!

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Max Fisher May 5, 2011 at 6:33 pm

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you sure the one on the left isn’t the ny times?

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perlcat May 5, 2011 at 8:30 pm

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The Times is *always* on the left.

Their motto is: “less news than Izvestia, less truth than Pravda” with apologies to the old Soviet saying: “No news in Izvestia (News), no truth in Pravda (Truth)”.

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whiskeyriver May 5, 2011 at 9:51 pm

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What is with this “they” crap? This fight against terrorists has always been a “we” effort. Troops sent by our strongest friends, England, Australia and Canada, have been helping in the battle since day one and I salute their efforts as much as I salute our own men and women in uniform.

Our allies may not have been in on the kill but they deserve just as much credit for helping us, the U.S., in our combined effort to halt the spread of terrorism.

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hisham May 5, 2011 at 10:18 pm

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These two renditions of the news represent the dichotomy facing us in the good ol’ US of A right now, only more papers slant to Left’s rendition than they do the Right’s. We really need to do something about that in 2012 at the latest!

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Keith in Seattle May 6, 2011 at 11:05 am

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Left leaning versus conservative, goes to show exactly where the left stands on the matter. They’re nothing more than apologists.

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