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- rentmitchum, on 05/13/2008, -10/+147Why am I not surprised? This should be startling.. frightening even.. but no. There's so much information that will come out about the Bush administration over the next 10 years or so, it's going to start pouring out as soon as it doesn't matter anymore. If this were a true democracy anymore Bush should have been tried as a war criminal and impeached years ago.
- swrostmore, on 05/13/2008, -6/+66The documents released under lawsuit by the Pentagon also reveal that Karl Rove and other White House officials, were, if not involved, at very least fully briefed on the program. Expect Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on this soon.
- khail250, on 05/13/2008, -9/+67atrocities unveiled in our gov't? who is going to win American idol is what we really care about, or the alternate ending to Ironman :(
if the pentagon was related to a sex scandal somehow then this would be frontpage news.. - Tripacer9999, on 05/13/2008, -5/+43Anyone else think the title meant there was a four-star elephant running around a newsroom?
- InfamousAtheist, on 05/13/2008, -5/+36Hey, the media has noticed one of it's own major problems... it's about time, the blatant propagandizing of this administration and the spineless complicity of the MSM has been obvious to me for some time now.
Now if we could just get the media ownership and consolidation rules changed so warmongers like GE can no longer spoon-feed us their spin pieces, we might start making some progress.
The news wasn't always this way - we used to have responsible government watchdogs. Now we have "editors" more interested in ratings than objectivity. Edward R. Murrow would be ashamed. - swrostmore, on 05/13/2008, -3/+31Anyone who cares about the government illegally using taxpayer money to lie to taxpayers, cares about this.
- jaymzdean, on 05/13/2008, -4/+30The defense for this will be, as always, 9/11.
- megaton, on 05/13/2008, -1/+31This story "broke" over 2 weeks ago when the NYT published the article...
- Dumbledorito, on 05/13/2008, -4/+29At least one section of NPR has been trying to get more attention on this: http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2008/04/25/0 ...
It also gives the experience of one "military analyst" who didn't want to play ball. Take a wild guess at what happened to his broadcasting "career" after that... - empirefalling, on 05/13/2008, -8/+33A disgusting form of government the US has.
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -10/+29The media hasn't reported this beacuse they have been complicit in propagating military propaganda, knowingly. Why would they report on their own misconduct? I hate it when people say 'well maybe the media didn't know.' the govt-media complex is a well oiled machine, not to be underestimated.
our leaders are not bumbling morons. they want us to think they are so they can use it as an excuse to expand their powers. the towers were rigged with explosives. - CannedMango, on 05/13/2008, -1/+16"Don't get cocky kid."
- Han Solo - Buddhaismybuddy, on 05/13/2008, -2/+13I don't know about you, but I just assumed this was happening the whole time.
- DeepFriedFetus, on 05/13/2008, -5/+20REVOLUTION PLEASE
- veijeri, on 05/13/2008, -1/+14It sures seems that way sometimes, Yoda.
- wendelgee2, on 05/13/2008, -4/+15Wait...there's an alternate ending to Ironman?
- onyxcoltrane, on 05/13/2008, -1/+9This important story needs to stay alive!
- pianomahnn, on 05/13/2008, -2/+11Yea, that's probably only if McCain doesn't get elected...
- Hetman, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8Most revolutions do not strrt until people are starving. Well atleast historicaclly speaking.
- Hetman, on 05/13/2008, -6/+15I dunno if anyone watch the daily show last night but he had a great interview. I always thought that the information that the administration gave us leading up to the war was at least most of the information they had. However that does not seem to be the case. They seem to have known that the war would take longer and cost more than they were leading the American public to believe. And that is lying which unless it is under oath is not an impeachable offense but it should be. I always thought it was just incompetence but now it looks like it was just deception.
- T3hJ3hu, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7I did, actually.
And I feel ***** retarded. - buildbyflying, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8The most frightening is the odds of getting people to change their minds in the face of a media that made up their minds in the first place.
- Photokon, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Congress' prompt action = do nothing but blow smoke.
- ChemiosMurphy, on 05/13/2008, -5/+13The US is going to hell in a hand basket. We're a boob tube society
- swrostmore, on 05/13/2008, -1/+9There's no law against corporations using their money to influence domestic media coverage. However there is a law against the Pentagon using taxpayer money to influence domestic media coverage.
- pintomp3, on 05/13/2008, -4/+9the corporate media, including the new york times, were complicit in promoting the lies that got us into war. people should be disgusted and outraged at this. of course the primary source of news for most people is through the same corporate media. so it's back to news about britney spears and rev. wright.
- juankovo, on 05/13/2008, -3/+9I'm all for the liars and cheats being on their way out, but don't delude yourself into thinking that an Obama administration would be any different. CFR shills, the lot of them.
- MCBAIKO, on 05/13/2008, -3/+8Americans have their heads in the sand. My own personal philosophy is that "when you have your head in the sand, you look like A BIG ASS!"
- carpespasm, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6no, the general form is good, it's more like an otherwise good car that someone has ***** up most of the settings and tunings for, making it run like an inefficient smoke spewing PoS. We've got to take our democracy into the shop and get it running right. A 600 dollar per citizen bottle of wonder-fixer-additive isn't going to do it.
- swrostmore, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Rumsfeld's aide during the beginning of the program's lying denial broke yesterday. Evidence of Karl Rove's involvement broke today. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's announcement that he intends to investigate this broke Saturday.
- Rotzooi, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6...and the world should have been shocked and appalled. Maybe the second time around.
- zjordan04, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5My first thought exactly.
- nosecohn, on 05/13/2008, -1/+7Sigh... you lost me at the end.
- agentbob, on 05/14/2008, -1/+5these replies suck.
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -1/+59/11
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5cant help myself. but if i had you until then then maybe i know what im talking about?:)
- gasin, on 05/13/2008, -4/+9Ralph Wiggum!
- GRANDPAMUNSTER, on 06/11/2009, -0/+4Revolution? Never happen, because that would mean people would have to stop watching American Idol or playing GTA. UGH !!!
- swrostmore, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Rumsfeld's aide during the beginning of the program's lying denial broke yesterday. Evidence of Karl Rove's involvement broke today. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's announcement that he intends to investigate this broke Saturday. l
- dig1x, on 05/13/2008, -2/+6Right, because clearly what we need is less regulation on Corporations. Thats what America needs.
- swrostmore, on 05/13/2008, -1/+4I don't know, does it surprise you that the Department of Defense violated the laws prohibiting domestic propaganda?
- tcpip4lyfe, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Also it was on digg the day after I believe.
- GRANDPAMUNSTER, on 06/11/2009, -0/+3The MSM is awful, all the things going on in the world and all they cover is Obama & Clinton. Enough already !!!
- kemp34, on 05/13/2008, -1/+4The organization has sponsored papers on one North American currency replacing the US$. Additionally, there are far too many ties between huge business and political figures in the organization, which is not good and leads to corporatism.
Corporate Members
* ABC News
* Alcoa
* American Express
* AIG
* Bank of America
* Bloomberg L.P.
* Boeing
* BP
* Chevron
* Citigroup
* Coca-Cola
* De Beers
* Deutsche Bank
* ExxonMobil
* FedEx
* Ford Motor
* General Electric
* GlaxoSmithKline
* Google
* Goldman Sachs
* Halliburton
* Heinz
* Hess
* IBM
* JPMorgan Chase
* Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
* Lehman Brothers
* Lockheed Martin
* MasterCard
* McGraw-Hill
* McKinsey
* Merck
* Merrill Lynch
* Motorola
* NASDAQ
* News Corp
* Nike
* PepsiCo
* Pfizer
* Shell Oil
* Sony Corporation of America
* Tata Group
* Time Warner
* Total S.A.
* Toyota Motor North America
* UBS
* United Technologies
* United States Chamber of Commerce
* U.S. Trust Corporation
* Verizon
* Visa - inactive, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Are we supposed to be surprised about this or something?
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -3/+7How about asking those of us who pay the military's excessive bills?
- Spoomeister, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3So what, exactly, are YOU going to do about it? Not the author, not the media, not some hypothetical Good American Citizen - I mean YOU, the person reading these words right now?
Apart from a Digg comment and perhaps a strongly worded letter to your local editor, I suspect the answer is "not a goddamned thing". - swrostmore, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Ok, except in this case the money used to hijack the media is our taxes, and the hijacker is the Department of Defense.
- Narrator, on 05/13/2008, -1/+4They should just interview Gary Brecher (a.k.a "War Nerd") if they want an honest military analysis...
http://www.exile.ru/authors/detail.php?ID=2259 - cambob76, on 05/13/2008, -3/+6It amazes me sometimes that there were enough gullible people to launch a war. But then again, shoot first, ask questions later is the American way.
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