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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."
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Monday, May 12, 2008 05:28 AM

    lwm and paranoia

    lwm wrote:

    There is enough to go around. Live and let live is a liberal/libertarian principle but carried to some ridiculous extremes we get the aberrations we are all familiar with.

    When I asked him how these "ridiculous extremes" would doom us all, he replied:

    I challenge you to come up with any instance where I have ever said that. Live and let live is non-interference in others lives.

    It is in the first quote and hundreds of others. You are always telling us that a small government or no government will lead to death, destruction, tyranny and so forth.

    Hell, you claimed that a Ron Paul presidency would be a return to having slavery. Blacks beware! Oddly, the chairman of the local NAACP chapter down in Paul's district supports him; have you not warned him?

    You have been fighting non-interference, non-intervention, "live and let live", or whatever term you like for at least a year and a half. Now you claim to be in favor of it?

    Who stole lwm's account and is posting under his name!?!

    —bucky1 Read bucky1's other letters

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