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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Adam Ereli, the State Department spokesperson, is now based in Dubai, running a US propaganda center there. But it looks like as if he has an office in Al-Arabiya headquarters. When he is interviewed, he is seated next to the anchorperson. And Ereli--a fanatic Zionist--is supposed to speak Arabic, but what an embarrassment. If I were to grade him, he would get 1 (on a scale of 1 to 100). In fact, his Arabic was so bad today, the the interviewer kept trying to decipher what he was saying, and then put it in his own words. But at least with Ereli you know that he will not ever say a critical word of US foreign policy (and thus he will not be banished to Guantanamo on a paid vacation leave, like Alberto Fernandez).