Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Walter Brasch
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The president of the Associated Press (AP) was spewing venom at the Bush-Cheney administration for having turned the Department of Defense into a propaganda machine.
Americans “expect honest answers about what’s happening to their sons and daughters,” Tom Curley told journalism students and faculty at the University of Kansas. Listing innumerable ways the Pentagon had [...]
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Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
In May 2005, Vanity Fair published a brilliant article about the ‘04 election and the Republican Noise Machine, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – The Disinformation Society.
I was thinking about what Obama said on Face The Nation today that “he didn’t expect immunity from Republican attacks, but could diffuse them with his message of unity and capacity to [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Rudy Giuliani has a new ad on the air in New Hampshire and Florida. It features footage of the Bhutto assassination and warns that “if we don’t vote for Rudy, we’ll be vulnerable to Osama Bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the people who assassinated Benazir Bhutto, and every other radical Muslim villain out there.”
This is the typical [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Ron Paul and his supporters are up in arms over the decision made by Fox News to “exclude him from a debate on Fox News Sunday the weekend before the New Hampshire Primary.
James Pindell notes in the Boston Globe that Paul has said that the decision to exclude him ”is proof that the network “is scared” of him” [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
The Bush administration has just lost their number one excuse to bomb Iran. All the posturing and blustering from Cheney and crew has been proven to be based on lies and propaganda:
A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on November 7th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Some how this seems likes just desserts to me… The conservative authors who penned propaganda pieces like “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,” “Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America’s National Security,” and “Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror” [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2007 by Robert Freedland
Mr. Gannon has objected to my characterization to him as a “fake White House reporter.”
According to Merriam-Webster “fake” means “counterfeit or sham” when used as an adjective. Following this line, “counterfeit” is defined as “made in imitation of something else with intent to deceive”. And “sham” means “an imitation or counterfeit purporting to be [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 27th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
In today’s WaPo is a must read post on “soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division.” The 1st Batalion just happens to be the same Battalion of the now infamous Scott Beauchamp, who the wingnuts have virtually crucified for months in the blogosphere. Here’s a few quips from the must read of the day:
Their line of [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on October 14th, 2007 by Hart Williams
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Tags: Al Gore, Children, Democratic Daily, In The News, Propaganda, SCHIP, Veterans Issues, Wingnuttery
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Posted on October 14th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
There’s two pieces on the ever growing Blackwater mess, that are in the must read category, that I wanted to point out before calling it a night…
First, is a piece in the Sunday N.Y. Times: New Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire.
Fresh accounts of the Blackwater shooting last month, given by three rooftop witnesses [...]
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