Delightful Morons - “General Gate”
Apr 25 at 12:12pm by Macranger
Such as John Stauber from the Soros funded “Center for Media and Democracy” in an interview with Judy Woodruff on PBS on the “blockbuster” NYT’s bath-water on the Pentagon use of the media during the Iraq War.
“In your view, what is the essence of the story? What does it say that the Pentagon did?
JOHN STAUBER, Center for Media and Democracy: Well, Judy, first of all, congratulations to the NewsHour for doing this report. And it’s a shame on the networks who were duped this way that they didn’t show up to defend or explain their actions.
What happened here was a psy-ops campaign, an incredible government propaganda campaign whereby Donald Rumsfeld and Torie Clark, the head of public relations for the Pentagon, designed a program to recruit 75, at least 75 former military officers, as your report said, most of them now lobbyists or consultants to military contractors, and insert them, beginning in 2002, before the attack on Iraq was even launched, into the major networks to manage the messages, to be surrogates.
And that’s the words that are actually used, “message multipliers” for the secretary of defense and for the Pentagon. This program continues right up to now.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And is the essence of this that what they did was — what the Pentagon did was illegal?
JOHN STAUBER: Yes, what they did was illegal. Now, the Pentagon might contest that, but we’ve had various laws on the books in our country going back to the 1920s. It is illegal for the U.S. government to propagandize citizens in this way.”
Lie. It’s not ‘illegal’, and in fact as I pointed out previously FDR created an Official Office of Censorship during WWII to control what the media in the States covered on the war. So did Ike, JFK, LBJ and Nixon all have similar practices.
Additionally while PBS quotes only from analysts that seem to support the war (oh what a concept for real Americans), there were many who in fact were critical of the war.
Helen Thomas gets bitch-slapped by Dano Perino
Nov 30 at 9:09pm by Macranger
Helen Thomas, the way post menopausal hag of the White House Press Corps get’s her fat-ass handed to her by White House Spokesperson Dana Perino.
Helen, do the nation a service and retire.
