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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."
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Saturday, May 10, 2008 08:32 PM

    A Thesis : all 'Libertarians' are secret McCain supporters

    Prove me wrong, dudes. I'm in no mood for trifling right now, because (a) HuffPost have a picture of John and Cindy McCain giving royal family type waves from the beer jet, and they both look to me like ALIENS, obviously goddam LIZARDS from ZETA RETICULI, and (b) I can't blog it because WordPress seems to be down.

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