This letter is associated with the following article:
Letters
Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 AM

How the military analyst program controlled news coverage: in the Pentagon's own words

"We develop a core group from within our media analyst list of those that we can count on to carry our water. They become the key go to guys for the networks and it begins to weed out the less reliably friendly analysts by the networks themselves."

Read other letters about this article

  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 11:03 AM

    Boylan?

    He's soused? He probably can't read from blurred gin visions. He hallucinating from a defunct failing liver. He passed out with a Iranian cigar dangling from his stiffened jaw. He probably attending the Chaplain prayer breakfast. He's no saint.

    Boylan and crew put chicken wings in the penitent plate.

    He's probably counting his wad of stolen one-hundred dollar bills.

    I just left Chris Floyd's site about the military snipers. He's accurate.

    Sad. The PTSD gathers in the V.A. have some of the "wildest Trauma cases"...

    I've decided listening in PTSD groups, and entering into a facilitator role is Not my gig.

    The returning Iraq/Afghanistan vet is real PTSD "bonkers"... Their life will probably be short.

    A remembrance :

    When I worked in the government Vet Center Program... A former sniper would shoplift Aqua Velva aftershave lotion. The alcohol content in cool, fresh, blue Aqua Velva gave the devastated "man" (who felt betrayed and a victim. He was a Souther boy reared in great poverty. The Army was a out. The Army gave him mashed potatoes and gravy,plus fried eggs and Florida orange juice. The Army guaranteed three meals per day and a Gaud Conduct Trinket. The military was a way out`ta drudgery) a buzz. He was pathetic. I admit. He made the military a career, and the military help ruin him forever.

    The Vt Center office always smelled so strange after he wandered in to speak to me.... Who uses that and Who uses deodorant? Who wears what? I would rather smell a black and white skunk or sleuth. Maybe Boylan has crammed his ears full of peanut butter, bread, and margarin? Boylan?

    I'm back to being 4-year old-sat.

    I'll visit neighbors and bring back some goat milk. It's more fun.

Most Active Letters Threads

740

The commendably missing element from Obama's speech

There was no pretense that human rights is our goal, or the likely outcome, in escalating the war
688

Obama's exceedingly familiar justifications for escalation

The "new" approach to Afghanistan touted by White House officials seems quite old
364

America's regression

It's almost impossible to find a nation with as many torture advocates as the U.S. has.
329

Yes, it's Obama's war now

An uninspiring speech sells a dubious policy, but progressives who feel betrayed have only themselves to blame
284

Do Obama officials know what his Afghanistan plan is?

What explains the completely contradictory statements from key aides on a central plank of the war strategy?

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon