Rumsfeld Bitches About Press Coverage of War
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is complaining that our mainstream media is emphasizing bad news rather than all the progress the United States is making in Iraq.
Rumsfeld believes, like other right-wing kooks--contrary to all available evidence--that the MSM leans to the political left. These fools deceive themselves and others as to the real motivation of the corporate-owned mouthpieces. Money rules the roost. That's why Fox television, the darling of the conservative right, shows the most salacious prime-time offerings of all the networks.
Rumsfeld's new round of complaints is especially galling in light of the military propaganda flap that recently came to light. Also, the military lies about many events as a matter of routine. It is no coincidence that any time the U.S. loses an aircraft in Iraq or Afghanistan, it is always due to bad weather or dust storms, never hostile fire. The truth later emerges, but always after the incident is forgotten by everyone except the families of the dead.
The reflexive lies about the death of Pat Tillman is another example.
The deaths of ten Marines outside Fallujah on December 1 was initially claimed to have been in the course of a patrol operation. The network news broadcasts even featured a simulation of Marines entering a compound and getting surprised by a booby trap.
Well, it turns out now that the Marines were at their base conducting an outdoor promotion ceremony when an explosion claimed the ten Marines and wounded another 11.
Rumsfeld has no business bitching about media coverage of the war when military spokesmen show such a lack of respect for the reporters and their audience--the American people--to flagrantly mislead at every opportunity.
Rumsfeld believes, like other right-wing kooks--contrary to all available evidence--that the MSM leans to the political left. These fools deceive themselves and others as to the real motivation of the corporate-owned mouthpieces. Money rules the roost. That's why Fox television, the darling of the conservative right, shows the most salacious prime-time offerings of all the networks.
Rumsfeld's new round of complaints is especially galling in light of the military propaganda flap that recently came to light. Also, the military lies about many events as a matter of routine. It is no coincidence that any time the U.S. loses an aircraft in Iraq or Afghanistan, it is always due to bad weather or dust storms, never hostile fire. The truth later emerges, but always after the incident is forgotten by everyone except the families of the dead.
The reflexive lies about the death of Pat Tillman is another example.
The deaths of ten Marines outside Fallujah on December 1 was initially claimed to have been in the course of a patrol operation. The network news broadcasts even featured a simulation of Marines entering a compound and getting surprised by a booby trap.
Well, it turns out now that the Marines were at their base conducting an outdoor promotion ceremony when an explosion claimed the ten Marines and wounded another 11.
Rumsfeld has no business bitching about media coverage of the war when military spokesmen show such a lack of respect for the reporters and their audience--the American people--to flagrantly mislead at every opportunity.
posted by Effwit at 11:05 AM
2 Comments:
Rumsfeld is clearly psycho. He would have been long gone in any half-way competent administration. He just lucked out to a time and place where the inmates are running the asylum.
Dena
Dena:
No argument from me on that point.
His press conference habit of asking himself questions and then answering them with 1950's platitudes like "My Golly" or "Good Heavens" seems to go way beyond eccentric to the realm of "touched."
Back when everybody was calling Attorney General John Ashcroft crazy, I constantly directed attention to the administration's real kook--Rumsfeld.
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