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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."

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  • Sunday, May 11, 2008 07:33 AM

    Kurtz

    He's currently playing an audiotape that shows the analyst's sucking up to their leader, Rumsfeld, that they need to go and and crush the opposition on O'Reilly.

    Jebbie, I see you have shooter's m.o. Next he'll quote some other liberal that said something he disagrees with to try and get a rise out of us without ever discussing the issue at hand.

    Maybe he'll suprise us and actually try and defend the topic on hand with arguments in support of it, rather than a dismissive sweep of the hand or an attack on the previous Clinton administration. I won't hold my breath

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