Pentagon reaches out to conservative bloggers.
Stocked full of “administration cronies,” the Pentagon’s public affairs division under assistant secretary of defense for public affairs Dorrance Smith, has set up a rapid-response project that “seeks to bypass the traditional media and work directly with talk radio and bloggers, mostly those with a heavily conservative tilt.” Once known as the “Surrogates Operation,” the project also “provides talking points and briefings to retired military officials who now support the administration in appearances as media pundits.”
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Damn Liberal Media!!!!
July 16th, 2007 at 5:49 pmOMG - Mr P… it’s your big chance!
July 16th, 2007 at 5:49 pmOne of the hallmarks of Fascism.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:50 pmGood news, CT! Check your e-mail for more talking points.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:50 pmDamn - they aren’t even trying to hide the political mission this entails. This is what the ems get for jerking off and playing games - the criminality and unconstitutionality is now being carried out in broad daylight, without a care in the world about repercussions.
Way to go Pelosi.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pmOh My God. Mr. President really is Mr. President. No wonder he’s so stupid.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:52 pmI thought this Administration, and Conservatives in general, hated the blogger community. Oh right, they are RAMPANT HYPOCRITES.
July 16th, 2007 at 5:55 pmThis is where trading reading books for watching ‘The Man Show’ is going to hurt conservative bloggers…
July 16th, 2007 at 5:55 pmOh My God. Mr. President really is Mr. President. No wonder he’s so stupid.
Comment by willyloman
We tried to tell you, back in 2000………………………
July 16th, 2007 at 5:56 pmBut Novak and others said bloggers aren’t relevant….
July 16th, 2007 at 5:57 pmThe trolls have run off to sign up!
July 16th, 2007 at 5:59 pm#10
July 16th, 2007 at 5:59 pmThat’s just liberal bloggers who’s audience numbers in the tens, and half of them are trolls with the giggles.
That was good willyloman. Explains a lot too.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:00 pmOh fuk, this is embarrassing.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:00 pmHey, the Man Show had its form and function. Married guys needed something. LOL
July 16th, 2007 at 6:00 pmPravda anyone?
July 16th, 2007 at 6:01 pm“trolls with giggles”
Sounds like a new wing of the Psych hospital to me.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:02 pmWhy are taxpayers dollars being spent to circumvent the media to which most listen in order to subsidize, via preferred access, media that only a fraction of them listen to or consider remotely credible.
Answer: to prop up a failed president and a failing fantasy that he understands what success is possible or how to get there. This president will spend hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives to cover his own backside.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:07 pmThey are little kids with their fingers in their ears dependng on their information controllers to tell them what to think.
Like the cult they have become, the right encloses itself into its false reality. It feeds on itself and the world/nation suffers.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:08 pm“Reach out and flog someone…”
July 16th, 2007 at 6:09 pm“Reach out and flog someone…â€
Comment by Raven — July 16, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
Or, as an alternative… An Outline of the “Fire the Grid” Story
Shelley Yates has shared her near-death experience with several East Coast and Midwest Friends of IANDS chapters. Highlights of her story are that she began hearing a voice while she was drowning with her 4-year-old son in 2002. The voice told her that she and her son would be rescued and that they would recover. Her son was under the water for 30 minutes before being rescued. The doctors at the hospital said that he was brain-dead, and recommended that he be removed from life-support. The voice told Shelley that he could be brought back to health if people would place their hands on him and share the energy of their auras. So Shelley called everyone to help. After 72 hours her son awoke and recognized his mother. He is a healthy and exceptional boy today.
Then the voice said that Earth needs to be brought back to health,
and that what happened with her son with a small group of people
could happen to Earth with a large group. Shelley was told to invite
people around the world to share their energy with Earth from 7:11 - 8:11 Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, July 17, 2007. That hour will be the peak of a day-long energy flow from the center of our galaxy.
Those who participate by praying, meditating, or just doing what they love to do with gratitude, will be energized. The Earth will light
up. That’s why the project is called Fire the Grid. Each one of us
is a hexagon in the Grid. This will begin a new era in human history.
The message is that the one hour of focused sharing of energy with
intention will change the history of Earth. This is the first time
that such a great number of the human family will be joining together mentally and spiritually to create a harmonious future. Millions of people are already involved. Currently Shelley’s website has 1.5 million hits a month, and hundreds of groups have formed around the world.
To watch the video of the story go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUAluDvuU4
Check this out. The date is July 17, 2007 at 11:11GMT (04:11 Pacific)
Go to: http://www.firethegrid.com and read the Story, Problem and Plan.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:19 pm“trolls with gigglesâ€
Sounds like a new wing of the Psych hospital to me.
Comment by ForTruth
You have some experience with that, right?
July 16th, 2007 at 6:20 pmsame thing the TP socialists do
July 16th, 2007 at 6:21 pmall Loyal Bushies swore their oath to defend our Constitution and the American people’s interests, to them that means they bach Herr Bush in ANY AND EVERY action, after all, God is on their side.
These people are MORE dangerous than even Hitler and his crew, these people have declared everyone not following their agenda “enemy combatants”
the axis of evil is BUSH.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:23 pmIMPEACH Gonzales NOW then work your way up the chain of command. They should all be in prison. Now they claim EP for not releasing the Tillman docs, the DOJ has refused to send a witness to testify before the Senate about the Voting Division, they are ALL acting criminally, obstructing investigation and justice! Their national voting scam will be exposed. Their crimes trying to monkeywrench prosecutions is only part of the equation, first they took over the DOJ, then acted with impunity, put these partisan plants in place and you better believe it is a threat to the next election. We MUST get to the bottom of this, we must have ALL the docs requested from WH, DOJ and RNC. We have to take to the streets in protest so something is DONE! People are standing by waiting! Geez, this guy is out of control!
Nice speach, I bet something is going to get done now.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:26 pmJustice, you got the Hitler, and inferred the Nazi but you totally forgot to call the president McChimpy.
You’re starting to loose credibility.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:31 pm“Nice speach, I bet something is going to get done now.
Comment by Nothing matters”
Nice “speling” doofus. You just proved #8’s point.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:34 pm“You’re starting to loose credibility.
Comment by Nothing matters”
Jeez you really are a moron.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:35 pmyou totally forgot to call the president McChimpy.
You’re starting to loose credibility.
Comment by Nothing matters
McChimpy???? Don’t quite get it, but “McChimpy”… there, satisfied??
July 16th, 2007 at 6:36 pmThis will put a crimp on all the moms who shares their computers with their troll sons in the basement. And they will have to put some online help out there to explain the contents of their talking points…. unless they use Grand Theft Auto-like pictures to get the message through!
July 16th, 2007 at 6:38 pmWPPR—
War Propaganda and Profiteering Radio!!
July 16th, 2007 at 6:39 pmOperation Shared Peabrain begins… buuuurp…
July 16th, 2007 at 6:39 pmWhere are you Nm? I’m waiting to be destroyed by one of your mispelled rejoinders.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:41 pmComment by Matthew — July 16, 2007 @ 6:19 pm
Thank you, Matthew, for sharing that.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:45 pmI’m grateful to be reminded of the need to apply energy towards the positive.
I often (perhaps to often) use sarcasm to point out the error, and forget to focus on the solution.
I will join you and others tomorrow.
There is a reason for the happenances of the flow of life, and mine will be to have read your post, and participate.
“speach”
def: what a peach becomes after it hits the floor.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:48 pmie: not quite splattered, not quite round
Good-bye, last shreds of Pentagon credibility…
July 16th, 2007 at 6:57 pm#35 Arthur Craven
I think that all ended when Rummy first strolled through the doors there.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:59 pmI bet all you Leninists are scared now!
July 16th, 2007 at 7:00 pmShouldn’t this be considered a violation of the Hatch Act?
July 16th, 2007 at 7:05 pmAh, the endless propaganda machine of the right…and their souless, mindless, minions who will follow them faithfully, without question off the cliff of destruction without a thought about it. Nice, hey Mr. P(rick), M(iss my mommy)12, Patti1″, Jake the Fake, Butt Slush slurpy drinking CT_V1 here’s your chance to shine, a$$holes.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:07 pmOf Course! Why not just use the propagandists directly? No need to filter it through the usual media channels, but feed the talking points to them directly and assure that the propaganda is out there in full and exactly as desired.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:11 pmIs Flaco finally banned?
Someone pinch me!
:)
(P.S. Pippi– you’re next)
July 16th, 2007 at 7:30 pmMaybe the Pentagon might even to be able to get a few of those chickensh*t Repub bloggers to enlist and go fight in their beautiful war.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:31 pmIf Flaco was banned, Mr President wouldn’t still be posting.
Oh yeah, TP just temorarily blocks a screen name. Nothing as deep as banning IPs.
The troll goes on.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:40 pmIsn’t it illegal to use taxpayer money for this? We shouldn’t have to pay for partisan propoganda to be inflicted on us by the military.
July 16th, 2007 at 7:50 pmAnother lame attempt by the republicans to get with the times.
They suck at teh intrarwebs- look at the shitty quality of Drudge, Malkin, Coulter, Fox News, etc’s pages.
For them the web is just a feature of their message, a toy, another form of print media. What a waste of taxpayer money.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:02 pm“… the project also ‘provides talking points.’”
I guess it’s about time for a new one.
Even the trolls are getting bored with “Clinton did it too.”
July 16th, 2007 at 8:25 pmTalking points worked quite well for the Republicans for many years…but now they got a real problem: BUSH’S RECORD
July 16th, 2007 at 8:43 pmIsn’t it illegal to demand that the military associate only with conservative (i.e., politically friendly) bloggers and media?!?!?
July 16th, 2007 at 9:19 pmIsn’t it illegal to demand that the military associate only with conservative (i.e., politically friendly) bloggers and media?!?!?
Comment by zuch@ix.netcom.com — July 16, 2007 @ 9:19 pm
Legal, illegal …
It’s just a couple of letters.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:24 pmI was just thinking about this: GOP and DoD like to repeat bad thinking with more bloggers.
The DNC likes to have many inputs, and are more likely to have a robust solution. GOP’s approach isn’t credible: Repeating more flawed messages doesn’t solve the problem, but gets more people to believe the non-sense.
DNC is more likely to adjust; GOP is more likely to stick with what is flawed.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:38 pmThe liberal media is at it again.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:41 pmThe plan is simple:
Reality is ugly. Reject it and substitute it with wishful thinking. The Bush administration tried doing just that by stoking all branches of the government with cronies; its sycophants helped along by hiring blow-hard and adulators to fill the public airwaves with praises to this sorry excuse for an administration.
But reality is a very stubborn thing, so now they need to summon even more help (from bloggers this time) to put even more lipstick on the pig.
Sheer stupidity is doing the same thing expecting different results. Too bad this administration hasn’t figured out that much yet.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:54 pmThey are leaning to the right.
July 16th, 2007 at 10:05 pmIsn’t that against the law?
Just a question!
Where will the money come from? Meanwhile, stop by this nice young man’s site and inquire if he’s on the gravy train yet. You’ll feel real welcome.
http://mikesamerica.blogspot.com
July 16th, 2007 at 11:38 pmRethuglican Pravda…Russia ain’t got shit on the USA when it comes to propaganda.
July 16th, 2007 at 11:49 pmChess at its best; but, from the Pentagon! There’s something not so much kosher about it; I know the other one they control; the Supreme Court; yea, why not from there?
July 17th, 2007 at 1:35 amOh yeah, TP just temorarily blocks a screen name. Nothing as deep as banning IPs.
The troll goes on.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — July 16, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
One final time, heh. When I previously e-mailed TP about the problems with trolls, or otherwise disruptive posters, TP told me, point blank, that they have been trying to get rid of the problem posters, going so far as to BAN IPs. However, the problem posters would immediately switch IPs. IP bannings were attempted, and accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Whatsoever.
TP cannot successfully ban the trolls without some sort of registration that requires e-mail confirmation, and most likely some secondary defense such as gravatars or a similar tool.
IP bans mean nothing to this particular “group” of troll.
July 17th, 2007 at 2:39 amThe Pentagram has been doing this for years, with Clod Central……otherwise known as FreeRepublic.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:01 am#59 TP cannot successfully ban the trolls without some sort of registration that requires e-mail confirmation, and most likely some secondary defense such as gravatars or a similar tool.
IP bans mean nothing to this particular “group†of troll.
Comment by Moderation — July 17, 2007 @ 2:39 am
I think the knotheads, Republicans, crapheads, fascists, Neo-Cons, Dolts, perverts, and drug addicts that are known as trolls make comedic relief.
These are all low level sycophants, that probably sit naked behind their terminals with pictures of Jeff Gannon and Ann Coulter.
The more dangerous and effective people are infiltrating organizations like the Democratic Party, Greenpeace, the record industry, and so on.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:06 amIP bans mean nothing to this particular “group†of troll.
Comment by Moderation — July 17, 2007 @ 2:39 am
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Yes, but some like Flaco (R.I.P.) and The Joker, most likely do not know how to do that.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:17 am______
_R.I.P._
_Flaco_
6. 2007
7. 2007
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The Pentagon is very good at wasting time and the people’s money. Conservative blogs are a losing venue to sell a losing strategery that Bush himself is engineering. Generals, shmenerals. Commander of Nothing George W. Bush is not listening to anything , or even military truthtellers: only Messianic voices in his head.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:19 amFor the record, this isn’t new — they’ve been giving info to right wing blogs for years.
I work with an Army Colonel (a public affairs office who was recently called back for his second tour of PR duty) who’s been doing this since the war began. He’s the one that fed LGF the info on the Reuters photos and Rather documents.
To say we don’t get along when he’s in the office would be an understatement …
July 17th, 2007 at 10:45 amInteresting. From what I have seen, no one has bothered to read the transcript of the interview. Good thing, too, since no one wanted to address any of the statements in it. I haven’t seen a single fact introduced in any of these posts. If it IS propaganda, deliver a reasoned response. BTW propaganda is not fascism when there is a free press. Both sides indulge in it quite regularly.
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:08 amIts sad to see have so many liberal left wing loons here have any idea of what they speak.
Dod has reached out to all bloggers including a large contingency of liberal bloggers who appear to be to ignorant, or to afraid, to participate in any of these sessions. Better to sit behind your laptops whacking off to photos of Juan Cole, then to use your pathetic brains to engage in conversation and the opportunity to voice your deep intellectual insights at any of these meetings.
Truth is you’d rather bury your head in the sand, while bitching, lying, moaning, groaning, and continuously twisting the truth to suit your bogus tired agenda.
This crap about the military only reaching out to right wing bloggers is yet another example of t he desperate state of liberals/dems, who perpetuate memes without one iota of truth- while screaming at the top of their lungs about lies being perpetuated by everyone else.
July 26th, 2007 at 9:18 am