The Kurdish public relations campaign
By on Aug 22nd, 2006 at 1:26 pm
The Kurdish public relations campaign
thanking America for overthrowing Saddam Hussein is run by a top conservative public relations firm that also founded the “Stop Michael Moore” campaign and “Move America Forward,” which brought together parents of dead U.S. soldiers to be counter-protesters at peace demonstrations.
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By “public realtions” do you mean propaganda?
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:27 pmCan we bastardize reality any more than this? I hope the public catches on to this. The cons are really turning up the heat aren’t they? And it’s only August. I’m not looking forward to the October Suprise this year.
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:29 pmSee? They buy propaganda. Why not Democrats? Atleast run the HR 635 on prime time TV.
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:29 pm#1 – By “public realtions†do you mean propaganda?
Yes. That’s exactly what they mean.
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:33 pmHow “presidential”.
Bush apparently enjoys cutting farts in front of interns. What a low class ass. Maybe he was ripping one while he was massaging Angela Merkles’ neck too.
(Snip)
He’s also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides, but forget about getting people to gas about that.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/articles/060820/28whisplead.htm
-GSD
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:40 pmWhy doesn’t this surprise me?
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:42 pmDespite appearances, the head of Russo, Marsh and Rogers, Sal Russo, maintains that the Kurd’s media campaign has nothing to do with “Move America Forward” or any of his other work for Republican clients or the Republican Party.
Swiftboats on the horizon.
Has anyone else seen the Kurdish con-mercials about investing in Iraq?
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:43 pm“We will not leave Iraq until the mission is finished†+ “We will be in Iraq as long as I am President†= I don’t believe I can finish the job
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:48 pmStauber believes the Kurdish government is using U.S. government money to hire the Russo firm, which is then using the money to lobby for a continuation of the war.
If true, then the war is much too a lucrative business for members of Congress who know the money they approve as financial help for Iraq, will eventually come back to them through the lobbyists who will pay for their “fact-finding trips”, make “donations” to their favorite non-profits, foot the bill for wining & dining nights in town, and give them assorted thank-you gifts… and they still complain about needing a pay raise.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:06 pmOf course, the Kurds want to thank us for overthrowing Saddam. They can now get about their business of establishing an independent Kurdistan, expelling the Arabs from their territory and liberating their fellow Kurds in Turkey and Iran.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:28 pmAm I missing something here? Where is the link to that Kurd PR outfit and those other two phoney PR drives (”Move America Forward” and “Stop Michael Moore”)? It’s highly prausible, considering that “Kuwait Hospital Incubator” story from 1992, but I can’t run with it without a positive connection.
August 22nd, 2006 at 3:35 pmOf course. Did you think any genuine group living in reality would offer a “thank you” for the rivers of blood this administration caused by manipulating intelligence and our fears after 9/11?
Only the modern-day Bush-enabling American moron would make such a profoundly stupid statement.
August 22nd, 2006 at 3:44 pmHere’s a link I found at DU that seems to answer my own question: http://ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=34168 I now have enough to double-check the story with Google. But why wasn’t it in this TP article?
August 22nd, 2006 at 3:46 pmBoundless dishonesty.
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:52 pmBut why wasn’t it in this TP article?
Comment by Paul Norman — August 22, 2006 @ 3:46 pm
What are you talking about?
The link to that very same article was provided by ThinkProgress.
August 22nd, 2006 at 6:28 pm“I believe the mission needs to be completed,” Mark Crowley told reporters at the event, sporting a t-shirt with a U.S. Marine holding two machine guns with a U.S. flag in the background. His son, Lance Corporal Kyle Crowley, was killed in an ambush in Iraq on Apr. 6, 2004. For the last year, Russo, Marsh and Rogers has been flying Crowley around the country as part of its “Move America Forward” campaign.
Like other speakers at the press conference, he didn’t know much about the Kurds, but wanted to support the war. “I believe the world is in trouble and that those who would do harm to the innocent will continue until they’ve wiped us off the planet,” he explained.
Another father of a fallen Marine, flown up from San Diego for the event, started to cry as the television cameras rolled.”
So, let me get this straight….People like Cindy Sheehan, who lost a child fighting for their country, are to be revered, but these parents of fallen warriors are to be ignored and their opinions discounted?
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:39 pmSo, let me get this straight….People like Cindy Sheehan, who lost a child fighting for their country, are to be revered, but these parents of fallen warriors are to be ignored and their opinions discounted?
Comment by Exley
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Of course their opinions aren’t being ignored–their sentiments reflect the status quo.The “war” continues.The death and horror continue.
Sheehan’s statements drew attention because her opinions advocated a course of action contrary to that status quo.
But you knew that,didn’t you?
August 23rd, 2006 at 1:11 pm