Bush: At the Helm of an Administration That Won't Stop Lying

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http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5162&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

The Bush Regime has killed tens of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, mainly women and children. The deaths are excused as unintended "collateral damage" of the ongoing war, but the deaths are nonetheless important to the tens of thousands of relatives and friends. An equally important casualty of the Bush Regime is truth. The American public has been trained to obediently accept their government's lies fed to them by their government's handmaiden, the US Media. No statement or claim by a Bush Regime Official is too outlandish to be received with acceptance. Consider the claim by Donald Rumsfeld, the US Secretary for War and Aggression, made to the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee on May 17, that Iran was to blame for the instability in Iraq.

Did the senators laugh Rumsfeld out of the room? No.

Did the media remind the "informed public" that it was actually the US invasion and unsuccessful occupation, together with mass detentions, torture, slaughter of citizens and invasions of their homes, destruction of infrastructure and entire cities, such as Fallujah, and removal of Saddam Hussein's government, which kept the three Iraqi factions from each other's throats, that destabilized Iraq? Needless to say, no. The only person in the Senate committee room who spoke the truth called Rumsfeld a liar and was hauled off by the police.

Freedom of expression still exists in America, but only on behalf of lies. Truth is forbidden, except on the Internet. The Internet is still free, because Americans are accustomed to believing what they hear on TV and read in the news columns of newspapers, whereas the Internet is new and iffy to most Americans and of less concern to the government. The mainstream media, which serves as a government propaganda organ, and the Internet are two parallel universes.

The influence of neocon propaganda now extends to National Public Radio. Prior to the Bush Regime and total Republican control of our government, NPR offered in-depth reporting and alternative views. This important service has diminished under Republican control. On May 18 NPR reported on a controversy at Yale University. A former spokesman for the Taliban government in Afghanistan is now a student at Yale. Conservative students and alumni are up in arms. A spokesman for the concerned Yale students said that the Taliban had killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11. The NPR reporters and commentators took for granted that the Taliban had attacked America and were a dangerous enemy of our country.

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1. Mr. Roberts drives another one out of the part

if CNN or MSNBC would have run op/eds that speak the truth like this in the run-up to the illegal invasion of Iraq, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now, IMO.

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2. bush's

first change to npr was a man who's name escapes me. he was the one who decided that any and all analysis should have at least equal numbers of liberal and conservative voices. of course, he didn't mean the ones with a conservative slant that were already on the program list (wsj, t. carlson, etc.) but that guy got booted due to questionable (read excessively generous)contracts awarded to a certain crony.

bush's second installation to npr is the former producer of a fucking piece of shit sitcom named, "the world according to jim" (starring jim belushi). i have begun listening less and less. i guess that's what he wanted.

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3. K&R

Anyone know which Senator was hauled off? And what happened to him?