March 20, 2005

Why can republicans use propaganda?

Listen to this npr story about the bush administration making video press releases that sound just like "real TV news reports."

Recap time:

1) This white house sees the press as just another interest and has excluded the real media from honest coverage (admittedly with their complicity).

2) Same white house that controls everything allowed gay prostitute access to the press room and to ask questions of this particular president who never "just calls on" someone by random. Oh, and this shill reporter asked the kind of leading questions that even this president could answer.

3) This same white house paid so-called journalists to go on talk shows and write columns supporting their programs. But the journalists didn't tell anyone they were little whores. White House says it is perfectly fine.

Now we have this same White House churning out fake video news reports and claiming that they aren't propaganda because they are true. Excuse me? I suspect that the Nazi press officer claimed their propaganda was true too.

Once again, I look at my conservative friends with the "what the fuck" look on my face. If you really believed what you say you believe, you would be on the phone with your congressperson and writing a letter to Bush. But you don't really believe that stuff do you? You like having someone who speaks the fake "faith language" in power more than you like your principles. So you won't call him on this, or the dangerous "abstinence only" stuff, or any of his lies, or his pollution policies, or any of it. You like power more than principle, which may be the very definition of selling out.

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