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"Relentlessly Pro-American" Albania Welcomes Bush

A strange choice of words to characterize a pro-US country.
By
Clay Waters
June 11, 2007 - 12:25pm

After the conclusion of the Group of 8 summit in Germany, Sheryl Gay Stolberg followed Bush to Albania, where he received a rapturous reception in that former Communist country. But notice how Stolberg spun it in the lead to her Monday story, "Bush Gets Respite in Albania, Where Thousands Hail Him [1]."



"His poll numbers may be in the basement, but when he zipped through this small, relentlessly pro-American nation on Sunday, President Bush was treated like a rock star."



Blogger Thomas [2]Lifson [2]explained: "'Relentless' means 'unyielding' and 'without pause' but has connotations of something to be opposed or stemmed, essentially something negative. Isn't it interesting that such a modifier would be chosen to describe a wave of love for America from overseas."


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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/world/europe/11prexy.html
[2] http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/06/a_relentlessly_proamerican_nat.html
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