Obama Admin: Hungary Should Rescue Communist Party Newspaper

[TomSea]

Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Obama Admin: Hungary Should Rescue Communist Party Newspaper
Written by  Alex Newman   

Obama Admin: Hungary Should Rescue Communist Party Newspaper

The Obama administration is facing criticism and ridicule after a bizarre outburst by the John Kerry-led State Department urging Hungarian authorities to prop up a defunct Communist Party propaganda organ. In an official statement, the Obama administration, which recently attacked media diversity in the United States, echoed discredited conspiracy theories pushed by communists and called on anti-communist Hungarian officials to prop up the bankrupt newspaper — supposedly to preserve “media pluralism.” But the ownership of the far-left paper, known as Nepszabadsag, wants to shut it down, citing growing financial losses and plunging circulation figures.

It was not immediately clear why the Obama administration had an interest in saving a radical left-wing propaganda organ reviled by many Hungarians who suffered under communism. The State Department bureaucrat, though, speaking for the administration, claimed it was about ensuring that Hungarians are exposed to a “diversity” of “viewpoints.” Hungarians, of course, were exposed to the savage communist “viewpoint” for decades, having suffered tremendously under a ruthless, murderous Soviet puppet regime that sought to quash all dissent using intimidation, torture, and murder as tools.

The Obama administration also called on Hungarian authorities to “work closely” on “Freedom of the Media” with a bureaucrat from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), a controversial United Nations partner organization founded and still partly controlled by brutal communist dictatorships that Obama invited to "monitor" U.S. elections. When and why using public money to prop up communist propaganda organs or even non-totalitarian media outlets became associated with “freedom of the media” was not immediately clear either. 

Read More At: http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/24482-obama-admin-hungary-should-rescue-communist-party-newspaper

[mountaineer]

Obama's peeved with Hungary for keeping out islamo "refugees." As an aside, I visited Hungary in 1987 when it still was communist,  a depressing place with few goods on the store shelves.