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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."

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  • Sunday, May 11, 2008 07:05 PM

    @JNagarya

    Christ on a crutch man, you and Rowan Berkeley just keep on with such ignorant ranting about libertarians, imputing to them evil (and largely wrong) beliefs, even after Glenn politely asked for all this nonsense to stop. So I won't engage either of you on your gross substantive errors since that would only fuel what Glenn is asking to have cease (as well as waste my time); but after a baseless screed about libertarians, for you to conclude about them with this:

    Charles Manson comes to mind.

    Is really exceptionally vile.

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