For examples of other propaganda patterns predicted in Manufacturing Consent, such as media reliance on information supplied by official sources, we have Judith Miller's credulous reports in the New York Times about aluminum tubes and other alleged proof of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. We have numerous studies conducted by FAIR of guests on evening newscasts, in which they found that 75 percent of the sources quoted were either current or former government or military officials, only one of whom expressed opposition to the war. Official sources are also the main ones cited in more recent "news analysis" in the New York Times, such as Michael Gordon's piece titled "Get Out of Iraq Now? Not So Fast, Experts Say," or David Sanger's "The Only Consensus on Iraq: Nobody's Leaving Right Now."

In short, the war in Iraq offers plenty of evidence showing that the information presented in U.S. media distorts reality and that those distortions have been the basis for the degree of public support of the war which still exists — even though public support has fallen. These aspects of the critique by Herman and Chomsky therefore remain relevant and important today.

amazing

Damned Americans, you'd think they would have chucked national pride by now. But no, their stubborn refusal to capitulate is causing all sorts of problems for the rest of us. Drat.

Yes, sir. General Custer. I commend your stubborn refusal to capitulate. Your national pride serves us well.

The military's Commander-in-Chief is an unintelligent law breaking unAmerican dishonest deceiftul ideologue who leaves ruin wherever he sets his sites, is immune to the considerations from reality and only listens to amoral totalitarian cretins like Cheney who tell him what he wants to hear or substly tell him what he needs to hear to do what they want. He listens to neoconservatives who at this point seem fanatically committed to making Orwell's vision of 1984 a reality.

If they go to war with Iran imagine what will happen. We can't handle Iraq ... expanding the war into a nation that is much more capable of defending itself than Iraq was is somehow going to magically make things better? No. So what will then happen. The movement conservative zealots will start screaming that we need to take the gloves off and the administration will drop nuclear "bunker busters" on Iran.

At which point we'll have virtually the entire Muslim world turned against the United States and it will only be a matter of time before we have some sort of nuclear blowback, at which point American democracy will cease to exist, to be replaced with a police state.

This is deadly serious. What we should be talking about is the risks of not impeaching. There should be millions of Americans out in the street chanting for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney before they get any closer to killing democracy. Because that's what they are doing. They are killing it. Day by day. They should not be given the opportunity to strike a deathblow.

Cheney just gave a speech to graduates of West Point telling them to ignore the Geneva Conventions. He is scum. A rotten dirtbag. When American soldiers get caught breaking the Geneva Conventions will Cheney step up and take responsibility? No, hell no. He will say, like the admininstration did with Abu Ghraib, that it's the fault of a "few bad apples".

Mr. Miyagi told Daniel-son that there are no bad students, just bad teachers. If there are bad apples in the military, Cheney is the tree they fell from.

He is actively encouraging the abandonment of American principles of justice and human rights. He is actively working to make the world a more dangerous world for our troops .. a world where it is less likely that they themselves will be treated humanely and decently.

He should be impeached. He is a power mad zealot. Tenets book and Woodwards' book suggest that Cheney was already involved in covert efforts to create some new kind of Iran-contra esque scandal without the knowledge of the Cia and there is now rumors circulating that Cheney is trying to work around the president to achieve a war with Iran.

They must go.

http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2007/05/video-of-day_9440.html

Its got to be frustrating for them to live in a democracy where a good portion of the population governs their lives by the dictates of reason and reality.

They won't be happy until they have a Leader they can goosestep behind and propaganda ministers telling them about how great their magic Fairy Wonder Land will be if only they can get rid of the vermin (i.e. nonbelievers).

There blogs are intellectual garbage. They should be treated as such. There is something perversely wrong that they are not. Michelle Malkin and her Hot Air editor fabricated a confession of treason - OF TREASON - from Bill Keller and her career suffers no consequence for that.

They are to democracy what creationists are to science.

This is exactly like Malkins "Jamal Hussein" faux-controversy. When they are disproved, they simply change the argument.

There are various religious sects in US history that have had a leader-figure predict the end of the world on a specific date. The date came and passed. Did they quit believing? Nope. They picked a new date and waited for that.