I do not know why, but the Majorca Daily Bulletin no longer has their story quoting President Zapatero's campaign promise that "The first thing I will do when I am elected is to go to the United States and support John Kerry...."

The story was there yesterday.

This is not the first time that news stories have disappeared, and I am glad I thought to post the Google cache version of it, because otherwise I'd look like more of a fool than I am!

If, because of politics, the story was pulled deliberately from the web site, I can see at least two possible reasons. One is because of Zapatero's campaign promise that the first thing he'd do would be to work for Kerry's election, and the other (possibly even more damning) is the headline that Zapatero was, as of last week, the losing candidate. The Majorca Daily Bulletin's bold headline was:

This flies directly in the face of the canard now being circulated by major media that Aznar attempted to "manipulate" the press, that Zapatero was already ahead in the polls, and thus did not benefit from the March 11 attacks.

I don't buy into this theory at all. But UPI does, and I guess it remains to be seen how the spin will evolve in the American media. (You can read my previous post here.)

(As the old line goes, "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.")