David Kaspar, the proprietor of the invaluable window on German media and politics, Davids Medienkritik, has caught the German government spending tax dollars on expensive full color advertising in American newspapers like the Miami Herald and Houston Chronicle, touting Chancellor Schroder's alleged friendship and suuport for President Bush and America.

David is pretty ascerbic in his commentary. I don't think there's a lot to add. But I have to wonder of the ads might be a way of sucking up to the newspapers, themselves.

Thomas Lifson  4 23 05