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Brit Hume and the Bush administration take propaganda to a new level
Gen. Petraeus gives an exclusive "interview" that was scripted by the U.S. military and designed to bolster every claim of the Bush administration.
Glenn Greenwald [2007-09-11]

  • Fox "News"

    I don't watch Fox, so thanks for alerting me to this disgusting but unsurprising "interview". You say, "Fox News is free to say whatever it wants", and I guess that's true, but the use of the word "News" is an abuse.

    I just wonder what this achieves. Fox has a relatively small audience, so Hume, Petraeus and Crocker were probably preaching to the converted. Is it a "shore up the base" exercise, or something more sinister? I was struck by the similarity of one of Hume's questions, (about the need for operations into Iran), to one posed by Lieberman in the hearings.

    Who's to say that covert operations inside Iran have not taken place? As I recall, the USAF and USN were running "Steel Tiger" missions inside Laos as early as 1967, long before it became public knowledge.

    -- Squeaky McCrinkle
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    Wednesday, September 12, 2007 06:43 PM
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