US government faked Bush news reports? Any truth?

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maddogchen

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Anyone know if this report is true? And if it is, how come I haven't heard of the news here?

US government faked Bush news reports

Chris Tryhorn
Tuesday March 16, 2004

TV news reports in America that showed President George Bush getting a standing ovation from potential voters have been exposed as fake, it has emerged.

The US government admitted it paid actors to pose as journalists in video news releases sent to TV stations intending to convey support for new laws about health benefits.

Investigators are examining the film segments, in which actors pretending to be journalists praise the benefits of the new law passed last year by President Bush, to see if they could be construed as propaganda.

Two of the films are signed off by "Karen Ryan", who was an actor hired to read a script prepared by the government, according to production company Home Front Communications.

Another video, intended for Hispanic viewers, shows a government official being interviewed in Spanish by a actor posing as a reporter with the name "Alberto Garcia".

One segment shows a pharmacist telling an elderly customer the new law "helps you better afford your medications".

"It sounds like a good idea," the customer says, to which the pharmacist replies, "A very good idea."

And in some scenes President Bush is shown receiving a standing ovation from a crowd cheering him as he signed the Medicare law, which is designed to help elderly people with prescriptions.

The government also prepared scripts to be used by news anchors. "In December, President Bush signed into law the first-ever prescription drug benefit for people with Medicare," the script reads.



"Since then, there have been a lot of questions about how the law will help older Americans and people with disabilities. Reporter Karen Ryan helps sort through the details." The "reporter" then explains the benefits of the new law.

Lawyers from the investigative arm of Congress discovered the tapes as part of an investigation into federal money that was used to publicise the new law.

They will be keen to ascertain whether the government might have misled viewers by failing to reveal the source of the videos, which were broadcast in Oklahoma, Louisiana and other states.

"Video news releases" of this sort have been used in the US since the 1980s, but the way they blur the lines between news and advertising troubles many media experts and campaigners.

The government defended the videos, which Democrats described as "disturbing". "The use of video news releases is a common, routine practice in government and the private sector," a health department spokesman told the New York Times.

VNRs are also used in Europe but a furore surrounding a Greenpeace video package about its campaign to prevent the dumping of Shell's Brent Spar oil platform sent to British broadcasters some years ago led to new rules clamping down on their use.

Greenpeace's sophisticated media offensive - including the provision of emotive film footage of its occupation of the platform - resulted in one-dimensional coverage by BBC and ITN, news chiefs admitted at the time.

Guidelines were subsequently drawn up to label video news releases as such - a category which the regular Osama bin Laden videos now fall.
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Phokus

Phokus

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Isn't that what saddam did during his elections?

Edit: BTW, your link is wrong.
 
preslove

preslove

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Wouldn't surprise me. Kind of like paying actors to pretend to be firefighters supporting bush in his offensive 9/11 exploiting campaign ads.
 
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etech

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Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
sadly bush genuinely thought the actors he paid were truly supporting him
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Does your lying actually make you feel better? Do you have any shred of dignity left or will you continue to spew lies until after the election.

Don't you think that everyone sees yours lies for what they are?


Now I expect you to strain your brain cells coming up with some witty report about some republican that lied. Don't bother, I want to know why you are lying.
 
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MonstaThrilla

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Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
sadly bush genuinely thought the actors he paid were truly supporting him
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Does your lying actually make you feel better? Do you have any shred of dignity left or will you continue to spew lies until after the election.

Don't you think that everyone sees yours lies for what they are?


Now I expect you to strain your brain cells coming up with some witty report about some republican that lied. Don't bother, I want to know why you are lying.
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LOL. I'm reminded of the movie "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen". The dude was obviously making a joke:

joke
n.

1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal.
1. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
2. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
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But I know all too well how sensitive you are to what us liberals can find "funny" (like the Iraqi urban myth that our soldiers had air conditioned underwear).

 
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Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
sadly bush genuinely thought the actors he paid were truly supporting him
Click to expand...


Does your lying actually make you feel better? Do you have any shred of dignity left or will you continue to spew lies until after the election.

Don't you think that everyone sees yours lies for what they are?


Now I expect you to strain your brain cells coming up with some witty report about some republican that lied. Don't bother, I want to know why you are lying.
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LOL. I'm reminded of the movie "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen". The dude was obviously making a joke:
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I laughed at it.. thought it was pretty damned funny. :p

Bush is still sort of intelligent for an ex coke user and reformed hardcore alcoholic.

 
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etech

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Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
sadly bush genuinely thought the actors he paid were truly supporting him
Click to expand...


Does your lying actually make you feel better? Do you have any shred of dignity left or will you continue to spew lies until after the election.

Don't you think that everyone sees yours lies for what they are?


Now I expect you to strain your brain cells coming up with some witty report about some republican that lied. Don't bother, I want to know why you are lying.
Click to expand...

LOL. I'm reminded of the movie "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen". The dude was obviously making a joke:

joke
n.

1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal.
1. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
2. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
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But I know all too well how sensitive you are to what us liberals can find "funny" (like the Iraqi urban myth that our soldiers had air conditioned underwear).
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So, making up lies and distortions is what you liberals consider fun. Well, it takes all kinds. But I will take you advice and ignore all future posts by ReiAyanami as a joke, not to be taken seriously, something trivial to laugh at.
 
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Gaard

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Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
sadly bush genuinely thought the actors he paid were truly supporting him
Click to expand...


Does your lying actually make you feel better? Do you have any shred of dignity left or will you continue to spew lies until after the election.

Don't you think that everyone sees yours lies for what they are?


Now I expect you to strain your brain cells coming up with some witty report about some republican that lied. Don't bother, I want to know why you are lying.
Click to expand...

LOL. I'm reminded of the movie "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen". The dude was obviously making a joke:

joke
n.

1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal.
1. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
2. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
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But I know all too well how sensitive you are to what us liberals can find "funny" (like the Iraqi urban myth that our soldiers had air conditioned underwear).
Click to expand...

So, making up lies and distortions is what you liberals consider fun. Well, it takes all kinds. But I will take you advice and ignore all future posts by ReiAyanami as a joke, not to be taken seriously, something trivial to laugh at.
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Like people claiming Kerry ate a baby?

But then again, when non-liberals lie or distort it's good clean fun. ;)
 
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LordMagnusKain

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Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
Originally posted by: LordMagnusKain
infoganda, as per 1982
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Two years too early there...
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no, you just got the filtered book; the RNC has had the actual book sense publish and threatened Orwell w/ dismemberment if he ever told anyone.

It was on the dayly show so that means the story is real.
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yep
 
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etech

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Originally posted by: Gaard
Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: MonstaThrilla
Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
sadly bush genuinely thought the actors he paid were truly supporting him
Click to expand...


Does your lying actually make you feel better? Do you have any shred of dignity left or will you continue to spew lies until after the election.

Don't you think that everyone sees yours lies for what they are?


Now I expect you to strain your brain cells coming up with some witty report about some republican that lied. Don't bother, I want to know why you are lying.
Click to expand...

LOL. I'm reminded of the movie "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen". The dude was obviously making a joke:

joke
n.

1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal.
1. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
2. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
Click to expand...

But I know all too well how sensitive you are to what us liberals can find "funny" (like the Iraqi urban myth that our soldiers had air conditioned underwear).
Click to expand...

So, making up lies and distortions is what you liberals consider fun. Well, it takes all kinds. But I will take you advice and ignore all future posts by ReiAyanami as a joke, not to be taken seriously, something trivial to laugh at.
Click to expand...


Like people claiming Kerry ate a baby?

But then again, when non-liberals lie or distort it's good clean fun. ;)
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No, the people saying that Kerry ate a baby(who said that, I haven't seen it) should be denounced as the liars they are, just as the stupid ones like the one I got onto should be.

 
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Gaard

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Ok.

Oh. By the way, would you say that someone claiming that Kerry bought out Amazon's supply of his book in order to keep people from reading it a distortion or a lie? If I remember right, you took part in that thread and wasn't offended by this claim at all. Of course, it wasn't a Liberal making the claim. ;)


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ReiAyanami

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this is not a joke, these are actual quotes:

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." -George Bush Jr. 2001-09-13

"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." -George Bush Jr. 2002-03-13


they become a joke only when you put them both together.
 
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LordMagnusKain

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Originally posted by: ReiAyanami
this is not a joke, these are actual quotes:

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." -George Bush Jr. 2001-09-13

"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." -George Bush Jr. 2002-03-13


they become a joke only when you put them both together.
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sight it.
 
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