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10/22/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Republican Noise Machine BustedCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
More White House propaganda and another arrow in the liberal media myth: Identical unsigned editorials are appearing on the op-ed pages of papers nationwide. What is an unsigned editorial? It's the official majority position of a newspaper's editorial board, usually...
08/22/05 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough Dueling Frames: Views on IraqCategories :: Framing - Foreign Policy :: George W. Bush :: Iraq :: Propaganda/Spin
Two different views of Iraq keep emerging: is it more like World War II or like Vietnam?
07/04/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Right-Wing Propagandists to Visit IraqCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
A group of talk radio reactionaries are visting Iraq so that they can tell Americans that things are going just ducky in the country.
06/06/05 :: By P. M. Carpenter The left-right screamfestCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
have previously mentioned columnist Matt Miller’s state-of-the-political-union musings, in which he asked the questions, “Is persuasion dead?… Is it possible in America today to convince anyone of anything he doesn't already believe? If so, are there enough places where...
04/10/05 :: By Stu Finkel The Agitprop Administration, pt. 173Categories :: Propaganda/Spin
Henry Waxman asks the GAO to investigate whether the $2.2 million that the Busheviki have spent on propagandizing their social security "reform" (read: destruction) crosses the line.
03/24/05 :: By Drew Johnston Audrey and Terri - A Study in FraudCategories :: Outrages :: Propaganda/Spin :: Religion
In 1981, Audrey Santo became a living relic after an accident left her permanently brain damaged. Today, we compare Audrey to our own living relic of political convenience.
03/23/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Privatization Propaganda FailingCategories :: Propaganda/Spin :: Social Security
Bush's daily attacks on Social Security are still failing to win converts.
03/14/05 :: By S.M. Dixon Pay No Attention to the President Behind the CurtainCategories :: Bush Administration :: Media :: Propaganda/Spin
The Bush Administration's deceptive Public Relations offensive, funded by tax-payer dollars, is more widespread than once thought.
03/09/05 :: By Tom Ball Was Saddam's Capture a Hollywood Production?Categories :: Iraq :: Lies :: Propaganda/Spin
We've all come across the type who still believe that man's landing on the moon was just a production of good old American cinematography. Ironically, these same people are the ones who would sacrifice their dignity to fawn over recent works of Bush propaganda. You can bet they were gaga over the manner in which Saddam was captured -- how appropriate it was that he had to be dragged from his vermin infested, rat hole... like the cowardly filth that he is. To others however, the 'capture' seemed just a bit too perfect in its symbolism -- as though the entire thing had been a staged event, perhaps even requiring signed 'affidavits of loyalty' to behold.
03/02/05 :: By Stu Finkel Guckert/Gannon to Take Questions from BloggersCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
Liberal bloggers over at Daily Kos have pooled their resources in order to investigate the Propagannon scandal. Now they prepare to ask questions of Guckert/Gannon himself.
02/20/05 :: By Stu Finkel An Interesting QuestionCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
An interesting question: what does Bobby Eberle mean when he says that Guckert was a volunteer? That he wasn't paying him this entire time? Then who was?
02/20/05 :: By Stu Finkel PropaGannon in the Sunday Papers -- Not So MuchCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
A look at some of the coverage of Guckert/Gannon. The NY Times talks to Eberle and Guckert, but there's not much information in the piece.
02/17/05 :: By Stu Finkel Your PropaGannon UpdateCategories :: Bush Administration :: Media Snake Oil :: Propaganda/Spin
the real importance of the Gannon story had nothing to do with sex or prostitution but about our growing knowledge of the elaborate Soviet-style White House propaganda network, and, potentially, about how a paid propaganda agent may have been involved in the outing of an undercover CIA agent.
02/15/05 :: By Tom Ball America Loves Traditional Progressive ValuesCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
Let's see, Hillary performs significantly better than Kerry, handily stowing her victim in the electoral trunk -- and yet, Hillary is perceived as being nontrivially more liberal than Kerry. How does that synch with the assertion that liberalism is 'out of touch with mainstream America'?
01/31/05 :: By Tom Ball Keeping Track of Bush Payola Propaganda PuppetsCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
Okay, okay. I guess we have to start keeping track of these asses. So far, the Bush Payola Propaganda Puppets include -- but I’m sure are not limited to:
01/13/05 :: By Drew Johnston The Amazing Mr. PresidentCategories :: Bush Administration :: Propaganda/Spin
It's bad enough that Bush's "town hall meetings" are obviously scripted. You'd think * would at least try to get his lines right.
01/11/05 :: By Stu Finkel On Media TravestiesCategories :: Media Snake Oil :: Outrages :: Propaganda/Spin
Atrios blasts apart any remaining iota of credibility to the long running myth that there is a liberal media by looking at who gets canned and who gets a pass when they fuck things up.
01/10/05 :: By Stu Finkel More on Taxpayer Funded Bushevik PropagandaCategories :: Criminal Acts :: Propaganda/Spin
Armstrong Williams, who was outed last week as having accepted $240,000 of taxpayer money to propagandize for the Bush administration's stupendously misnamed No Child Left Behind education initiative claimed in a conversation with the Nation's David Corn (via Kos) that,...
01/07/05 :: By Tom Ball Are There Any Limits to the Propaganda of Goebbels W. Bush?Categories :: Bush Administration :: Propaganda/Spin
Remember the question that I asked at the end of my last post on Bush Propaganda? Well, the answer is... we haven't even begun to see the extent to which this administration will go when it comes to asserting their agenda. And why should we? They committed atrocities beyond compare in their first term and the American electorate gave them a free pass. I don't blame the Republicans one bit for relentlessly pursuing their agenda.
01/07/05 :: By Stu Finkel More Bushevik PropagandaCategories :: Criminal Acts :: Propaganda/Spin
The USA Today reports that the Bush administration paid a prominent black commentator $240,000 to plug No Child Left Behind. Your tax dollars at work, promoting Bushevik propaganda.
01/07/05 :: By Tom Ball GAO Says Bush Administration Broke Law with 'Covert Propaganda'Categories :: Criminal Acts :: Propaganda/Spin
Who in their wildest crackpot imagination (prior to Bush’s takeover of the White House) would think that the US would be found in criminal violation of producing and distributing propaganda within our borders? Sure, during war you have Psych-Ops dumping this crap on the opposition and other foreign targets...but within our borders...on a domestic topic.
12/17/04 :: By Bonnie Yarbrough “Frivolous” Justice: Bush on TrialCategories :: Bush Administration :: Framing 101 :: Hypocrisy :: Propaganda/Spin
Finding credible information at the Economic "Summit" is proving to be more illusive than Bernie Kerik's "nanny." I doubt anyone familiar with Bush's record on the economy took the Economic “Summit” this week seriously, but at least the outrageous comments and mock discussions have gotten some fair criticism this time around.
11/23/04 :: By Delton Murphy Framing News vs. PropagandaCategories :: Framing 101 :: Media :: Progressive Strategy :: Propaganda/Spin :: Reference
There is definitely a need and a place for commentary and editorials but when obvious opinions and partisan politicking replace news and journalism, the "truth" becomes quickly lost in the shuffle. When one looks at the current climate of news and information in the US, specifically the mainstream corporate media, the lines of demarcation are not as clear.
11/23/04 :: By Tom Ball UK Government Softens Up the Public for a New Series of 'Patriot Acts'Categories :: Propaganda/Spin
What incredible timing -- amazingly convenient for the Bush-lapdog we all know as Tony Blair. On the eve of the 'Queen's Speech' where government officials plan to roll out such civil-liberty-trouncing policies as national ID cards, there is a 'report' that ensures us that these policies are just what the doctor ordered.
11/21/04 :: By Stu Finkel Presidential Yacht and the DemocratsCategories :: Democrats :: George W. Bush :: Hypocrisy :: Propaganda/Spin
One of the many items of pork in the omnibus bill passed yesterday is $2 million to buy back the Presidential Yacht. As Atrios observes, if the Democrats don't know how to foment outrage with this, all may very well...
10/30/04 :: By Tom Ball More on the Pentagon's Newest Al Qaqaa AssertionCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
More on Friday's CNN press conference with Pentagon Spokesperson Lawrence de Rita, and Major Austin Pearson regarding the Pentagon's newest assertion that some of the Al Qaqaa explosives might have been removed by US troops.
10/12/04 :: By Tom Ball Former FCC Chairman Confronts Sinclair Broadcasting Group Over Anti-Kerry PropagandaCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
Does a former FCC chairman have any pull in a situation like this? Is this a sign that the current FCC, and hopefully the FEC are addressing this aggressively?
Yesterday, former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt sent the following message to executives at Sinclair Broadcasting Group (Thanks to TPM)
10/06/04 :: By Tom Ball Friday's Payroll Numbers Could Sway the ElectionCategories :: Economy :: Election 2004 :: Propaganda/Spin
Regardless of Friday's release of payrolls and the unemployment rate, one of the candidates will be touting it as proof of their assertions...either Kerry, "I told you Bush's economic policies suck." or Bush, "I told you my economic policies don't suck." Also regardless of this data release's outcome, Kerry will be right.
09/29/04 :: By Drew Johnston Spin With a GrinCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
Something's making me smile, and I'm sure you want to know what it is. Because you do. You really do.
09/10/04 :: By Drew Johnston Tale of the Document, Part 2Categories :: Propaganda/Spin
OK, so we now that yes, Virginia, there were typewriters with proportional spacing in 1972. But, alas, that fact alone is not enough. You see, the “forgery” would-be scandal is what brother-in-arms Tbogg refers to as an “evolving smear”. If you check the post on Powerline (no, I’m not linking to it) you’ll learn that the original accusation has been modified 14 times. Basically, a series of self-styled experts wrote in to talk about what else is wrong with the documents, and the ‘wingers treat it as gospel.
09/10/04 :: By Tom Ball Debunking the 'Typewriter Experts'Categories :: Propaganda/Spin
Okay, so now they are 'questioning' the authenticity of the Bush Gaurd documents presented on '60 Minutes' this week. They are in a quandary as to how the documents from the early 1970s could possibly have 'proportional spacing' when that phenomenon at the time was only available in a sparsely distributed word processor that was virtually nonexistent in governtment ranks. For some reason, the 'experts' seem to have overlooked a conventional, widely used typewriter born of IBM in 1941 that had as its claim to fame...none other than....proportional spacing!!
09/04/04 :: By Tom Ball There's Bush and There's RealityCategories :: Economy :: Propaganda/Spin
Today, it was announced that the economy added 144,000 new jobs in August.
07/29/04 :: By Tom Ball BREAKING NEWS: Pakistan captures a "Most Wanted" Qaeda ManCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
Reuters Headline "PAKISTAN CAPTURES A "MOST WANTED" QAEDA MAN WITH UP TO $25 MLN BOUNTY-MINISTER TO CNN" Recall the article written in the New Republic that accurately reported that the 'July Surprise':
07/29/04 :: By Tom Ball BREAKING NEWS: Abu Musab Zarquawi ArrestedCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
Bloomberg is reporting that Abu Musab Zarquawi has been arrested...just as the New Republic magazine had predicted. ...Right on the day Kerry is nominated. How long have they known where this guy is and put off arresting him for the...
07/23/04 :: By Stu Finkel Conventional WisdomCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
Atrios links to the priceless Daily Show bit on GOP talking points from last week, which is now up at the Comedy Central website. If you are able to view streaming video, it is a must see.
07/01/04 :: By Tom Ball A Parable of Taxation and PropagandaCategories :: Propaganda/Spin :: Taxes
A friend of mine sent me the following to illustrate the way taxes work in America. What it succeeded in illustrating was that my friend is either blindly partisan or grossly ignorant.
06/26/04 :: By William Hare New York Times: Stop Fawning Over Schwarzenegger and Start Analyzing His Policies!Categories :: Propaganda/Spin
Bill O’Reilly recently lamented that the New York Times has vacated its former position of being America’s great newspaper of fact and has become instead a liberal mouthpiece. Yes, Bill, we remember how the New York Times was in the forefront of turning Al Gore into, in the media’s jaundiced eyes, a “serial exaggerator” when he allegedly boasted of having invented the Internet and having been the true life example used by Erich Segal portrayed by Ryan O’Neal in Love Story. In the first instance there was egregious misquoting. Those of us who took the trouble to read the full quote in question know that Gore stated that he had voted in the Senate to provide the Internet’s original federal funding. Gore made no claim about being Erich Segal’s true-life lead character in Love Story. That erroneous claim resulted from a story in Gore’s hometown Nashville newspaper which he did not inspire and over which he had no control.
06/24/04 :: By Tactic: Know the Criticisms of "Fahrenheit 9/11"Categories :: Propaganda/Spin :: Tactics
Progressives at every level must be prepared to defend Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11". This involves not only exposing the lies and misstatements intended to undermine Moore's credibility, but also keeping the focus on the big picture.
06/21/04 :: By Tom Ball Tactic: Implement Radical Policy in Baby StepsCategories :: Iraq :: Propaganda/Spin :: Tactics :: Women's Rights
Technique: Focus on Major issues piecemeal. Do not address them as a controversial whole. Instead, focus on the least objectionable parts. Once these have been accepted, then it is much easier to lead logically from the accepted piece to the more controversial whole.
06/17/04 :: By William Hare "It's the Blood, not the Dress Stain, Stupid!"Categories :: Propaganda/Spin
In Bill Clinton’s 1992 winning presidential campaign adviser James Carville achieved enduring recognition with the famous strategy saying he tacked up on the wall of the Little Rock war room, “It’s the economy, Stupid!” The succinct message was that the overriding issue gripping the attention of Americans in the election was the economy. Now a new message should be appropriately delivered to the partisan Republican ranks, “It’s the Blood, not the Dress Stain, Stupid!”
06/16/04 :: By William Hare Russo's Double Play TryCategories :: Propaganda/Spin
Russo and his Republican allies are using the same tactic employed by Karl Rove and George W. Bush. You avoid honest debate and instead fall back on a huge cash reserve to attack. They are unaccustomed to nothing but rigged games played with a stacked deck. The time to stop them is now!
06/12/04 :: By Tom Ball Death is Death: Terrorism vs. Military StrikesCategories :: Anti-War :: Philosophy :: Propaganda/Spin
Which is worse, death by terrorism or death by military strikes? Is there a difference? And if there is, does that difference matter? Do you think the families of the victims of either methodology feel any less pain and suffering because of the capabilities of the killer?
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