Pentagon suspends media propaganda campaign.
Responding to The New York Times’s explosive report exposing the Bush administration’s secret campaign to use analysts in order to “generate favorable news coverage,” the Pentagon has “temporarily stopped feeding information to retired military officers pending a review of the issue.” A department official said that a timeline for the investigation had not been set, but that they would “take the time to do it right.”
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“temporarily stopped feeding information to retired military officers pending a review of the issue.”
Meanwhile, behind the scenes at the muckymuck meeting…
Listen guys, the cat’s out of the bag! We need a few days to figure out a good lie that will fool everybody. Any ideas???
April 25th, 2008 at 10:02 pmPropaganda by the government is illegal. America is dead. Republicans killed America.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:10 pmI’m sure the straight talk is just around the corner.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:21 pmPending a of the issue? PENDING A REVIEW OF THE ISSUE???!!!!PENDING A REVIEW OF THE ISSUE?????!!!!!
April 25th, 2008 at 10:32 pmI urge all of you to read the article linked from the post above at:
http://www.stripes.com/ article.asp?section=104&article=54330
and email Conyers (John.Conyers@mail.house.gov) and call Reid (202-224-3542) and Pelosi (202-225-0100) to uphold their oaths of office to support the constitution and follow the rule of law. We need accountability, not stupidity. There are a few million people out here who have actually read the constitution, who actually look for the truth. And whatever this administration says is anything but the truth.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:32 pmI clicked ‘Recommend’ on comments 1 through 5.
Don’t anyone make me do that again.
(shoot! I’ll probably HAVE to do that again for 6 through 11)
April 25th, 2008 at 11:11 pmTemporary must be the key word. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2008/ 04/ 25/ AR2008042501480_pf.html
Oh, this is a different propaganda campaign — and even more dangerous than the one being paused.
Why does the Bush administration think that anything they say will be believed given their track record of endless lies. Some Republicans are even tiring of the never ending intellectual dishonesty. And no wonder.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:27 pm“Pentagon suspends media propaganda campaign” Suuuure they have. Anybody interested in a bridge?
April 25th, 2008 at 11:45 pm“temporarily”
Slippery, ain’t they?
April 26th, 2008 at 12:03 amfrom the earlier PBS thread:
[…] TV news organizations have largely been silent on their role in the propaganda. Ari Melber notes that last night, PBS’s Newshour finally broke this blackout, but couldn’t convince the other networks to participate:
JUDY WOODRUFF: And for the record, we invited Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBC to participate, but they declined our offer or did not respond.
whew! how fortuitous! now they don’t have to!
wonder if they’ll report on THIS story… … not…
April 26th, 2008 at 12:51 am” A department official said that a timeline for the investigation had not been set, but that they would “take the time to do it right.” YEAH, RIGHTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!
April 26th, 2008 at 1:07 am“Pentagon suspends media propaganda campaign.”
WRONG! We only know that they have SAID they will suspend the media campaign. TP, the Pentagon has said many times thru history that they will stop doing something wrong when the public finds out about it—and later it is found out that they LIED and never stopped it at all! Therefore, you cannot print something they say as if it were true.
Shall I be waiting moderation on this one, too?
April 26th, 2008 at 2:22 amA department official said that a timeline for the investigation had not been set, but that they would “take the time to do it right.”
Translation: there are so many fingerprints on this decision to propagandize using paid shills, that we need to provide cover long enough for the responsible persons to get safely into the private sector.
About next March, they’ll begin to start looking at it.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:52 am1. “generate favorable news coverage” = To lie to the
American People so we can keep funding an illegal war.
2. “temporarily stopped feeding information” = To give us
time to get our story straight, because some of our
lies have backfired.
3. A department official said that a timeline for the
investigation had not been set. = An investigation
will never happen unless Hell freezes over.
4. “take the time to do it right.” = What is one more lie
April 26th, 2008 at 6:17 amafter all the propaganda we have dumped on the nation.
(I promise I won’t hold my breath)
I am pretty sure that ““take the time to do it right” does not imply any sort of moral imperative, but merely means “not to get caught again.”
April 26th, 2008 at 6:52 amAll the yarn has spun-out, five plus years, billion’s spent, and thousand’s dead, and, or wounded. The PAID mouth’s have nothing to say to me.
April 26th, 2008 at 7:20 amPentagon exonerates itself (again) in 3…2…
April 26th, 2008 at 8:10 amThis at a time when Congress is expected to consider the butcher of bagdad
General Betryus to become the Himmler of Cheney’s SS… his bold actions to rewrite the military handbooks to sanction torture and human rights abuses… his circus monkey performances for military stars on his uniform…
was once considered treason and by most of the free world, still considered a war crime.
He should be headed to Guantanimo for a torture cell and a swift execution before a kangaroo military tribunal… not to the Capitol Hill for Senate confirmation.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:26 amFeeding info to ex military folks like Admiral Roy Hoffmann the head of Swift Boat Veterans, perhaps?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hoffmann
April 26th, 2008 at 8:46 amThey’re just going to retool, rename and hide it, like the Total Information Awarness program. They certainly won’t stop it.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:56 amRepublicans killed America.
More precisely, it was Bush, the dumbest mother fcuker EVER to be called POTUS.
The Rove knew exactly how easy it would be to get the idiot-boy-puppet-Chimperor to go along with anything the neocons dreamed up since the Shrub is as feckless as a pile of shit.
April 26th, 2008 at 9:59 amYes, they will “do it right” — translation: let’s give this a chance to die down and everyone forgets about it.
April 26th, 2008 at 10:42 amWe’ll find out months or years from now, that nothing has changed.
Someone enabled them……
In the mean time I’m really discouraged about this. Why? How can this crisis just be swept under the rug? What is the point in changing politicians if nothing changes?
Democrats Downplay Universal Coverage
http://blogs.wsj.com/ health/ 2008/ 04/ 24/ democrats-in-congress-downplay-universal-coverage/
http://digg.com/ 2008_us_elections/ Democrats_lower_public_expectations_on_healthcare_reform
http://www.kxmb.com/ getArticle.asp?ArticleId=232242
April 26th, 2008 at 11:08 am#6. 5th Estate Says:
I clicked ‘Recommend’ on comments 1 through 5.
Don’t anyone make me do that again.
(shoot! I’ll probably HAVE to do that again for 6 through 11)
The nuns told me I’d go blind if I recommended myself ;)
April 26th, 2008 at 11:37 amThey’re going to suspend their propaganda campaign so they can investigate it? Don’t they already know what they did?
This needs a congressional investigation…oh wait…Pelosi controls the house so that’ll be “off the table.”
http://progressiveworldreview.com
April 26th, 2008 at 11:48 am“Pentagon suspends media propaganda campaign.”
…
to rename it, and start again.
There, fixed the headline for yah.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:12 pm“… take the time to do it right.” Can you say “Statute of Limitations”?
April 26th, 2008 at 2:02 pmThe most recent Pentagon propaganda piece was released today. It reads as follows:
PENTAGON SUSPENDS PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN
April 26th, 2008 at 5:04 pmDoes not the fact that the Pentagon says it has suspended the program proof that they do indeed have such a propaganda program?
April 26th, 2008 at 6:11 pmThe Pentagon has “temporarily stopped feeding information to retired military officers pending a review of the issue.”
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Subtext: “We’ll hold off until the scandal dies down and everyone’s attention has been drawn elsewhere — once that happens, we’ll go right back to doing it.”
April 26th, 2008 at 7:59 pm