Overshadowed: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s US Visit
By Vince Leibowitz on Mar 22, 2006 in National
Most of you regular readers know that I rarely write about issues not directly related to Texas or Texans on this blog, but today, I do want to give a bit of bandwith to an important story that I feel has received poor media coverage—especially in Texas.
President Bush’s disasterous press conference yesterday overshadowed another D.C. event which was quite interesting if not important: Liberia’s new President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf met with President Bush and gave a very interesting talk and took numerous questions at the U.S. Institute for Peace (video here, no news links I can find).
Although it certainly isn’t uncommon for a visiting head of state to visit this country, I have been very dissappointed in the coverage the Mainstream Media, especially in Texas, has given to Johnson Sirleaf’s visit, which included an address to a Join Meeting of Congress (video here, transcript here). I’m especially dissappointed in the coverage given she’s Africa’s first democratically elected female leader.
So, in hopes of alerting you to this interesting event, here are a few links:
Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. has a nice post at BlackAmericaWeb on Congressional support for the new Liberian government.
Voice of America coverage.
The Analyst Newspaper (of Liberia)
New York Times (regarding address to UN)
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