‘Military analyst’ to Rumsfeld: ‘You are the leader. You are our guy.’
‘Military analyst’ to Rumsfeld: ‘You are the leader. You are our guy.’
The Pentagon recently released documents related to its propaganda program, first disclosed by The New York Times on April 20. Media Matters notes that the now public records reveal a meeting in April 2006 between then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and then-Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Peter Pace, in which one unidentified “analyst” praised his “leader”:
During the meeting, one of the attendees tells Rumsfeld, “[W]e get beat up on television sometimes when we go on and we are debating” and says that he would “personally love” for Rumsfeld “to take the offensive, to just go out there and just crush these people so that when we go on, we’re — forgive me — we’re parroting, but it’s what has to be said. It’s what we believe in, or we would not be saying it.” The individual adds: “And we’d love to be following our leader, as indeed you are. You are the leader. You are our guy.”
Media Matters has “documented the consistent unwillingness of most of the outlets mentioned in the Times article to discuss the military analyst story.”
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Wow. The man-crush atmosphere is overwhelming.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:09 amThe toe tapping in the pentagons men’s rooms must have been deafening.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:12 amActually, aren’t they saying to him…
“We want you to go on the record first. So that later on, you can’t say that what we said was not what you intended.”
I think they saw through him, and this administration’s penchant for denial if anything went wrong.
Either that, or they drank the kool-aid.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:20 am“And we’d love to be following our leader, as indeed you are. You are the leader. You are our guy.”
– - We didn’t ask, don’t tell us.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:22 amyou go to war with the leaders you have, not with the leaders you want.
wait….never mind
May 8th, 2008 at 10:25 amAnd now on to Iran…where’s that ‘leader’ when we need him?
May 8th, 2008 at 10:25 amSounds like a beer hall putsch
May 8th, 2008 at 10:28 amIn the CorpoRat State, corpoRat media ARE State Media, friends…
May 8th, 2008 at 10:29 amThe individual adds: “And we’d love to be following our leader, as indeed you are. You are the leader. You are our guy.”
“my life for you!” ala Stephen King’s “The Stand”
May 8th, 2008 at 10:29 amCreepy.
The fact the many of the news sources have yet to reveal their culpability is not newsworthy to them. They haven’t been reporting ALL THE NEWS for the last 8 years. Rumsfeld was their go-to-guy to make it happen.
It’s really sad to see all the News Sources turned into cheerleaders for the GOP.
May 8th, 2008 at 10:40 amIs any of this really surprising? I stopped being surprised when I heard the votes being cast for the “Authorization to Use Force in Iraq”. Why doesn’t the MSM go back and check all the reasons we went to war? Wouldn’t that be novel?
Oh Breaking News….a cop shot and tornados!!!! That’s news!
May 8th, 2008 at 10:40 amREPHRASED:
“Sir, if you could just go out there with your cute little suit and sneakers and standing desk and prevaricate, as you do so well, it would be really great because… well … we’re just not as good at lying as you are sir.
Really, you are a walking ANTI-VERACITY machine…. “
May 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am6 days
6 weeks
I doubt it will be 6 months
Donnie, my friend, would you be so kind as to make some more predictions; yours have run out of oil.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:17 amThe individual adds: “And we’d love to be following our leader, as indeed you are. You are the leader. You are our guy.”
I hope rummy shifted his weight so this guy could kiss his other butt cheek.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:17 amI’ve just begun downloading and perusing the documents sort of randomly and it already appears as if former Dem presidential hopeful General Wesley Clark was being briefed right along with the rest of the retired tools.
I also found that the Pentagon wasn’t just “briefing” on Iraq and Afghanistan, but Rummy’s bogus “Global War on Terror” as well.
I also noticed that Bill O’Reilly’s program was mentioned specifically – and that was just after reading one or two pages at random!
May 8th, 2008 at 11:21 amsatirev Says:
Remember Rummy telling us that there was some exhorbitant amount of money “missing” in Iraq before he exited stage reich?
You are teetering on the brink of slurring my name :)~
May 8th, 2008 at 11:37 am“Leader” guy is the intel guy
May 8th, 2008 at 5:00 pm.
HEIL RUMMY!
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May 9th, 2008 at 2:11 am