On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is the first time I remember seeing mainstream press refer to the
> other side's coalition as "strange bedfellows": they are challenging
> another strange-bedfellows alliance between Mr. Obama and Republicans like
> Representative Paul D. Ryan and Senator Orrin G. Hatch
> --------
> What are you  talking about? Could you explain this in plain American that
> cats & dogs can read? "We" and "They" are indecipherable here.
>



It was poorly expressed, but a very good observation.

That the press should refer to the bipartisan opponents of the TPP as
"strange bedfellows" but not to the also bipartisan *supporters* of those
deals.

A not-very-subtle case of the press taking sides..
-raghu.
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