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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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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 09:05 AM

    @GC

    Hah! Wimpy has been running our government!

    They will gladly pay us Tuesday for the hamburger we allow them to have today. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. Oh, and it keeps them from raising taxes on themselves while they're dining on the ground up meat of our young people and social programs.

    Well, let's hope Dolly's Pardons have been completely deflated by the time we get around to levelling charges against them for their crimes.

    It may not be a good day to roll down a hill, but I love playing soccer in the mud. Kick the ball hard enough often enough and with sufficient accuracy and it's bound to hit the back of the net sooner or later. ;-}

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