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pinto

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Wed May-28-08 11:02 PM
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Catapulting the Propaganda.

Edited on Wed May-28-08 11:03 PM by pinto

An interesting side note to the White House's blow back on Scott McClellan's book release:

All have used the same set of phrases for the most part: "puzzling", "not the Scott I knew", "disappointed", "sad".

While you have to note the seamless Bushco 'code of silence' represented by the reactions, the parroting only underlines some of the points Mr. McClellan is making about the run up to the Iraq invasion.

Catapulting the propaganda. It's what they do.

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Wed May-28-08 11:05 PM
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1. I just posted a similar comment...lol. n/t

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Octafish

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Wed May-28-08 11:25 PM
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2. And Corporate McPravda was monkey's megaphone.

They are guilty, too, the Press Corpse.

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calimary

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Wed May-28-08 11:38 PM
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3. They are TOTALLY, COMPLETELY, and MONSTROUSLY guilty.

I wrote a rant about this that just got picked up by Huffington Post!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-lyon/the-i-didnt-do-it-letter_b_103952.html

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Octafish

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Thu May-29-08 12:15 AM
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4. Great article, calimary!

We aren't living in the U.S.A. of our grandparents.

From your article:

"I think it's a very legitimate allegation," said CBS News' Katie Couric. "I think it's one of the most embarrassing chapters in American journalism.

"And I think there was a sense of pressure from corporations who own where we work and from the government itself to really squash any kind of dissent or any kind of questioning of it," Couric added. "I think it was extremely subtle but very, very effective."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/28/earlyshow/main4130854.shtml

"(C)orporations who own where we work." Hah. They also "own who works there." So, I won't hold my breath waiting for Katie to write her memoires.

I've been steamed at Corporate McPravda for a long time, my Friend:

JFK: How the Media Assassinated the Real Story

We've learned a lot more since that was first published, such as the FBI memos linking Poppy to Dallas. And zero of it has made it on to the pages of The New York Times or aired on ABCNNBCBSFauxNoiseNutwork.

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