Originally posted by: GarfieldtheCat
Originally posted by: blackangst1
Please elaborate. You know, since I misunderstood you.
Have you read about how the Pentagon and the White House selected and approved senior retired military officers, and then gave them preferential treatment and special, private briefings, so they could go on national TV as so-called "independent" analysts to give their opinion?
But their opinion wasn't theirs, it was what the WH and Pentagon told them, and they only repeated it. Nothing like being a propaganda puppet, huh?
And do you know that it is ILLEGAL? The government isn't allowed to secretly shill their own policies under a disguise like that. Just like a few years ago with it when the government paid speakers to appear on TV to promote their education plans, without telling the public that the appearances were bought and paid for by the government.
Doesn't that bother you? Another case of the law being broken by Bush, Rummy, and the WH.
Of course the Media was been complicit in the whole debacle following 9/11. They totally caved to the neo-cons agenda, and totally gave up the responsibilities of their job, which is to INVESTIGATE stories, not blindly repeat whatever off-the-record admin official they talked to, without checking any facts. Just like Congress, in the whole BS backlash post-9/11 caved to Bush and gave up their duties as well, just to keep their jobs.
