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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
L.W.M.
Published Letters: 6225 Editor's Choice: 5
Nah Gah Happen.
We are not gonna spend all day looking for examples of how the SCLM (so-called liberal media) is no more than an echo chamber for the current regime's talking points. It may take you months, years, to flush all the kool-aid outta your headgear, but you seem to be getting it.
Credit is due, Glenn, to Elena Benador and Benador Associates:
According to Benador's web site, Benador Associates is a "Public Relations, Media and International Speakers Bureau." Benador was founded by Eleana Benador. Offices are "located in New York City as well as in Paris and London. However, the activities of the firm are expanding throughout the American continent, as well as in Europe and the Middle East."Jim Lobe describes Benador as follows:
"When historians look back on the United States war in Iraq, they will almost certainly be struck by how a small group of mainly neo-conservative analysts and activists outside the administration were able to shape the US media debate in ways that made the drive to war so much easier than it might have been… But historians would be negligent if they ignored the day-to-day work of one person who, as much as anyone outside the administration, made their media ubiquity possible. Meet Eleana Benador, the Peruvian-born publicist for Perle, Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney and a dozen other prominent neo-conservatives whose hawkish opinions proved very hard to avoid for anyone who watched news talk shows or read the op-ed pages of major newspapers over the past 20 months."
— Jim Lobe, The Andean Condor among the Hawks, Asia Times, August 15, 2003.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Benador_Associates
Jeffrey Schneider (Hollywood agent, flak catcher and spin doctor) worked at William Morris Agency in PR before coming to ABC.
Eleana Benador is a Peruvian-born linguist who acts as a "sort of theatrical agent for experts on the Middle East and terrorism, organizing their TV appearances and speaking engagements." Her clients have included Richard N. Perle, Michael Rubin, David Wurmser, and Laurie Mylroie (author of Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America) and Judith Miller (Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, co-authored with Mylroie), a New York Times journalist.It is alleged that, of the twenty-eight clients in Benador's "books," at least nine are connected with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Washington Institute, and the Middle East Forum.
Above paragraphs based on article from The Guardian
"Now Benador's clients are working just as hard to get the U.S. to invade Iran. One of her clients is Amir Taheri, who is a "commentator for CNN." (CNN does not publish a list of commentators, which is extremely suspicious. What are they hiding?) Taheri became infamous this week for writing a bogus story claiming Iran just passed a law requiring Jews to wear yellow stripes."
"Wag the Dog is a 1997 film starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Anne Heche about a Washington spin doctor (De Niro) who distracts the electorate from a presidential sex scandal by hiring a Hollywood producer (Hoffman) to create a fake war."
And the reality is that a fake presidential sex scandal was used to distract the electorate and trick them into a real war based on fake evidence. Fact is stranger than fiction and life imitates art imitating life. Wag The Donkey? Dog The Wankers?
"Speaking of Krauthammer, did anyone read his piece today? He is using the fact that Iran released the prisoners as evidence that negotitiatons do NOT work"
I don't read Krauthammer and if you do you had better be immunized and/or innoculated. These people are not stupid. They realize that the whole mess was a propaganda coup for the Iranians and it does send a disturbing message that further endangers our troops. Remember, they are still there and not likely to be redeployed any time soon. Our leaders are weak. They have never used diplomacy and statecraft effectively and if you believe Clausewitz, that is also a form of warfare. They strut around loudly and when they swing the big stick, it flies right out of their hands. That is all Krauthammer is acknowledging, that they are lousy negotiators as well as being unable to wield the hammer effectively. They keep getting taken to the cleaners by the Iranians. The Iranians may be our natural allies in all this now, but their leadership has it's eyes on empire just like our current regime does.
"The high priest of I love you, but...."
But William, that last bit is unfair to autistics, and those suffering from Aspberger's syndrome, everywhere. ;-)
Turner is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger.
http://www.fightingterror.org/
Bwahahaha!
I smell a neocon.
It makes Hankest a pleasure to deal with by comparison. By that I mean JimC and Karl000 whatever. Wingnut loons.
Go write some psalms in C++ and leave the law to the lawyers.
JimC's not smoking crack. He's nibbling on a 6 foot tall chocolate Jesus. No one has ever been prosecuted under the Logan act. It's one of those quaint old laws from a bygone era, like the Constitution and the Geneva Convention.
He looks like a doughy soft in the middle and all around the edges neocon.
http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/Faculty.nsf/FHPbI/4459
There are actually all kinds of trolls.
If you were a usenet user back in the day, you'd have observed all kinds of varieties. There have actually been some attempts at an academic study of the phenom...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
But first we should prosecute Reagan and crew (again) for the Iran-hostage deal behind Carter's back
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/icread/icread.html
Maybe some white women will go missing every month in the run-up to the election and then turn up eaten by sharks. Then we can avoid the 24/7 campaign Kabuki theatre.
"After all is said and done, I do not believe Pelosi will be charged..."
Who does Jeebus like in the SuperBowl next year?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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