“Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity”
What did you do in the war daddy? I went on Fox and CNN and told lies to make companies money and kill innocent people. Now go wash up for dinner…
</em>Pathetic:
Behind Analysts, the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure.The administration’s communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo.
To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.
</em>Go ahead and read it, and hold it in the back of your mind the next time you hear someone attempt to argue the validity of our wars. If the subject wasn’t so deadly serious, you could almost laugh.
Almost.
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They almost look like your grandpa, don’t they? Nice fellas. Until you realize that these well scrubbed, upstanding “experts” earn their living causing this:
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And then, its not really funny anymore.
