I have to give Howard Kurtz some credit because he hasn’t backed away from the Military Generals scandal. He plays audio from one of the military analysts who was part of the propaganda scandal with the Pentagon and who lovingly praises Rumsfeld. It looks like O’Reilly was used in the same way that Dick Cheney used Russert in spreading their talking points to the American people. What say you, O’Reilly?
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Kurtz: The networks continue to ignore that New York Times story about TV’s military analysts getting briefings and talking points from the Pentagon as they defended the Iraq war effort.
We reported twice on this program a huge batch of documents and e-mails show how cozy that relationship was. But now comes an audiotape of it, 2006 meeting between more than a dozen analysts and Don Rumsfeld, in which some of the retired military officers are giving the secretary advice on selling the war.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We would love for you to take the offensive and just go out there and just crush these people. You are the leader. You’re our guy. You go on O’Reilly, and you’ve got him eating out of your hand because you’re smart.
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KURTZ: Eating out of your hand. And these men were presenting themselves to television viewers as objective military analysts.
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In the Jungle the Mighty Jungle the TV glows tonight.
Hillary may yet put on a pair of overalls with one suspender and have her picture taken sucking on a jug of moonshine likker.
I have a friend who is a Navy pilot. He and his colleagues hate Bill O’Reilly. They see him as a chickenhawk propagandist with no idea what he’s talking about. I guess the Pentagon sees him that way too - and exploits it.
Bill O’Reilly is a republican tool? *GASP* *keels over dead from shock*
Rusty Shackleford @ 2:
Have some friends in both the Corps and the Navy. They loathe Bill O and the others. They are none too fond of their Commander in Chief either who they describe as a draft dodging coward. (Well, that’s the “clean” version).
I thought the hand/puppet metaphor would have been more accurate :)
Blah, Blah, Blah !!!!
What about Obama not wearing a flag lapel pin ?!?!?!
What about Rev Wright ?!?!?!?
LOOK EVERYONE, I have a shiny, sparkly object over here !!
Chico Hussein @ 6:
I can only imagine the Rove Machine has someone waiting in the wings that will swear Obama sold him cocaine in college.
Chico Hussein @ 6:
FTFY
There are tons of video clips that show the media is compromised and working in coordination with our govt. Just turn on your TV, flip to the media outlet of your choice and just wait a min or two. You’ll see one.
Anyone who was really objective was fired by this administration long before 2006.
I hope they’re paying attention over at the Hague.
We know nothing is going to happen here about it.
O’rally eating out of your hand - a rather sickening thought.
I can only imagine the Rove Machine has someone waiting in the wings that will swear Obama sold him cocaine in college.
Yep… that’s actually one of the tamer scenarios that i imagine happening
in the days leading up to the election.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
McSame says he wants to run an ‘Honorable’ campaign. I just dont see him going that route. Even if it was Hamas who sold him the cocaine and turned the profits over to Al Queda so they could use it to kill Americans, all with Obama’s blessings.
Our Infrastructure is 100 years old.
Thats another thing to think about.
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
Shit thats not old, only 28 years older than McCain ;)
Rusty Shackleford @ 8:
LOL!!!
‘Scary black men’ sure have a way of clearing up Republican’s confused brains.
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
Careful, or a “concerned” poster will call you ageist.
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
Maybe that’s why McSame wants to stay in Iraq for a hundred years. This way, they cannot rebuild any infrastructure for the duration of the war and thus they would be as incapacitated as America is. THEN, we can “win” the war.
L.A. Confidential @ 15:
100 years? in philly that is considered brand spanking new.
we are headed for a hard fall. and just watch as capital flees america, like rats on a sinking ship.
lyleleander @ 13:
“Let the Media do the Talking”
I suspect this is the new enhanced con strategy. The media says OBAMA WAS A COCAINE DEALER! Everyone will freak out of course and McCain will say. “Huhhh? Oh I didn’t know that. Anyway, I’m a busy man, I got a mission to accomplish when I’m elected President. Let the media and voters sort it out.”
The Free Ride Strategy
The unidentified male voice was actually Osama Bin Laden.
Birds of a feather coming home to rule the roost.
Eating out of another man’s hand must be one of them “traditionalist values” O’Racist is always ranting about.
Of course they lie about being objective. They lie about everything else.
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Samson- @ 20:
One thing is obvious I don’t see Americans rushing out to get into the trades or industrial arts much these days.
Windows Vista isn’t going to fix roads, highways, bridges, sewers, grids, etc.
It seems we at C&L are really getting under Billy the KidGoat O’Rielly’s skin
Watch this video Billy going nuts–make sure kids don’t listen to the asshole swear
http://www.breakthematrix.com/.....-Goes-Nuts
Bye “liberal” media myth. GOP psy-ops blew its cover and won’t have you to kick around anymore.
Congress and the American people were sold a lie, period. Too bad we don’t have a media to investigate it, or a Congress with the balls to pursue it either.
Required @ 27:
Senator Levin intends to investigate it.
HA. I wonder what’s going on in O’Reilly’s little pea brain?
Has he completely purged the memory of his pledge to ‘never trust the Bush Administration again’ if WMD wasn’t found…? Will he make the connection between that incident and this one…?
Will he allow himself to notice that he was played for a fool?
CatAtomic @ 29:
Bills an ultra ultra conservative. They stay in control and on top of the game by using the anything goes and nothing matters technique. Whatever it takes to advance the con agenda and stay 3 steps ahead of the pack.
L.A. Confidential @ 25:
no friggin doubt
college was supposed to be the path to a successful career. it seems that trade school is the new college. as david cay johnston wrote in ‘free lunch’, any job that is done on the computer or over the phone will go overseas until there is a global balance… in like 150 years….
i have said it a million times, and i repeat: capital and corporations don’t give 2 shits about america. they only care about market share and accruing more capital.
You mean to tell me they used O’Reilly a stooge. I’m Shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 32:
I know. Who woulda thunk it?!
The sad thing is that O’Reilly believes that he is the 21st century’s answer to Edward R. Murrow.
The ‘war’ in Iraq is the greatest swindle in the history of the world.
Oh! I’m a broken record.
Here from Salon, Michael T. Klare asks ‘Who is the super power now?’
Edward Gibsons, where are you now that we need you?
Here from Chapter 1 of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.” Chapter 1
the DOD’s black-ops media propaganda effort has been exposed. which, i would argue, has less to do with the pentagon and more to do with the offense industry.
but…
how many more covert pundits/talking heads/news models curse the ariwaves? how many more industries have paid operatives doing the msm rounds?
we know, for sure, that exxon paid scientists to argue against the climate change. when you watch faux/cnn/msnbc/pbs be hesitant to believe anything any “expert” claims. the insurance industry, the automotive industry, coal, etc. all have an interest is deceiving the public, and, i for one, am not naive enough to think that they would not attempt to “control” a story by planting an industry spokesperson, under the guise of indep analyst, on the msm. and, as we have seen, the msm is not concerned with vetting one’s credentials, nor investigating any financial conflict of interest.
Samson- @ 31:
Corporate-crybaby
A bit wiser and a whole lot older, feelin’ bolder
Suckin’ up to the last stockholder with a
Golden parachute slung over your shoulder
Celebrity-stud-monkey
Kiss and tell, got a book to sell
‘Cause you don’t excel or do anything well
Since you slipped past thirty, better keep the sex dirty
Alice (The Romans Fell, so shall we) @ 35:
The Neocons never read the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. But Iraq and Afghanistan’s toll on our military and economy probably won’t stop them from bombing Iran.
L.A. Confidential @ 37:
Just enhancing Samon’s observation a bit.
L.A. Confidential @ 25:
I am a librarian assistant at a technical college. While the enrollment in traditional colleges is going down, our enrollment for the past ten years is continuously going up. Last year, we had a 20% increase over the year before. Some of that is that the ecomony is bad and when that happens, people go back to school. However, most of it is that a lot more people want and need the technical trainging and education.
Scy @ 4:
As a Navy veteran, the wife of a Navy veteran, and the mother of an Army veteran, I can tell you that we all three hate O’Reilly and his like with an abiding passion. The same emotions apply to the chicken hawk president and his even more chicken hawk vice president.
aaaa…who owns the MSM?……never mind.
Am I the only who’s having a slow time getting the page to reload. Slow all around.
Where is the outrage!?
Barbara @ 40:
Barabara,
Can you say what percentage of the students there are receiving training in potentially out-sourcable jobs like software engineering, telephone-based tech support, etc. versus “hands-on” trades like network infrastructure & maintenance, industrial trades, etc.?
I wonder if the hackers are back. Funny thing, after the O’Lielly thread, they pulled the vid of the bombastic one and things slow down here.hmmmmmmmmmmm?
Leslie [Hussein] @ 38:
Edward Gibbon [my bad] his monumental work: ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’
The surprise is not that the Roman Empire fell, but that it lasted so long.
I wonder if future historians (if there are any) will ask the same question of us.
“…eating out of you hand” and “Rumsfeld” in the same sentence reminds me of this classic: