Richmond-Times Dispatch
is reporting that a $100M psych operations program has been outsourced to contractors for a media campaign directed to Iraq & Afganistan. 3 firms were selected to: "produce print articles, video and audio broadcasts, Internet sites and novelty items, like T-shirts and bumper stickers, for foreign audiences. Video products will include newscasts, hour-long TV shows and commercials."

The article informs that propaganda to influence the American public is illegal, but in a medium such as the web (or sat TV) with no boundaries or fences, it is difficult to imagine how it could be regulated or how it helps us get Osama bin Laden? A defense analyst in the article suggests "100 million might be better spent on guns and bullets." (body armour too)

While our troops get less, this is welcome cover for the 101st Fighting Keyboardists,

Frist? Delay? They are in circus rings 1 & 2. Welcome to ring 3, in the grand tent of wingnuttery, where we witness a  performance by "Unfit for Command" co-author, Jerome Corsi, whom the WaPo reports is moving to MA to Challenge Kerry for the Senate in 08.

It makes sense.  On 4/16, I saw a C-SPAN broadcast of a 4/4  Heritage Foundation event (do not have transcript - took notes) where Corsi,  was pimping his newly released book, "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians" and the website http://www.iranfree.org. The presentation left my jaw hanging. Here's the argument: Kerry is working for Iran along with Hillary, Kennedy & Biden to provide them with nuclear techology for supposedly peaceful purposes. Iran's operatives will use the technology to explode a nuclear device in NYC & Tel Aviv. We have until June to resolve this peacefully and if we cannot, we must use force. Remember, Seymour Hersh reported Iran is the next target.. More sickness on the flip

Check out the sexy photo of Gannon (JD Guckert) on AMERICABlog http://americablog.blogspot.com/aol.jpg

The hypocrites' hypocrite strikes a hot pose while working for the hate machine by day

Read the ongoing investigation....

http://www.americablog.org/ Update [2005-2-9 17:2:43 by LooterScibby]: AMERICABlog Requests Help in Locating Gannon Articles: "NEED THIS ASAP! I've got a job for you all by John in DC - 2/9/2005 04:36:55 PM I need to get copies of Gannon's Talon News stories dealing with gay issues. Talon News pulled them, and I want to show reporters how his writing was always slanted to the anti-gay side of things (such as when he wrote an an article defending Santorum's man-dog sex comments). Can you guys check the way back machine, or whatever it's called, and pull up links for me to his gay-related stories that were pushing the bad guys' agenda."

In an interview with Tim Russert on CNBC 2/5, 7pm EST, Friedman shoveled a pile of bullshit so high I thought it contained in inscription "K-2." (no offense to mountains and those who enjoy them).

The following is a sketch of the Friedman Plan for Iraq.  The things he said about Iraq,  Bin Laden reward and everything else is a sad commentary by a clown of a man caught up in his own delusions. lt deserves a 2 hour Daily Show special. (I took notes - no transcript is available yet). I believe this may have been the stupidest commentary of any commentator on Iraq.

Regarding the Iraqi elections, he said security is better after the election. (Try Juan Cole, Friedman - you can debate him after Jonah Goldberg.). Friedman argued that the Shiites have been quite patient because they could have road in like "Cossacks" through the Sunni areas but did not do so.  Ann Coulter often makes the argument that because the absolute worst case scenario has not materialized, it is a success.

He said now after the election, they have to decide whether they are "willing to die" for the government, and whether they are willing to do the dirty work like "kicking in doors," pulling people out and "doing what you have to do."  The US forces could not do that, but the Iraqis must do it, Friedman concluded. Of course, the latter phrase has nothing to do with infamous Iraqi prisons.

Friedman did not address the explosive time bomb it is to have Kurdish peshmergas and poor southern Shiites "kicking in doors" and "doing what you have to do" in Ramadi. How about Kirkuk and Irbil? It will not increase sectarian violence towards civil war. It will provide the security framework for the Friedman economic plan .

Check it out now>>>>>>>>>>>11:33pmEST

Update [2005-1-15 0:4:6 by LooterScibby]: I hit the transcript link below again and now it says "$3000.00" not "$300,000" as it had before when I copied it for this diary entry. I copied the block quote and the changed number at approx. 11:51pm EST. I went directly by the transcript. Comments? Whether this is a transcript error or not, it gives me a chance to point out that O`Reilly's attempt to smear Air America Radio will not work. The market for liberal talk rings cha-chang. It's a profit venture, thank you. Thanks to pontificator: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/14/183851/174

Amazing how low this slimy fuck will lay:

O'REILLY: And this comes from a woman, Zephyr Teachout, who was the head of internet outreach for Dean's campaign. She's admitting she paid these two guys, all right, $300,000 a month, and they just threw nice stuff about Dean. Then you've got George Soros, he's paying a lot more than that to have these defamation websites that attack people all day long. Then you've got guys pumping Air America, that radio network. That's not profitable; that's running on money from some crazy left-wing nut. And, I mean, it's getting out of control, is it not?

$300k!!!!!!!!!!!

As Jersey guys like me say,

CNN, the castrated, subjugated and compliant member of the Republican Noise Machine (RNM) reminds me of a character from Pulp Fiction: the rubber-clad and gagged slave man living in a box in the basement of a neo-nazi's military surplus store. The rubberman took active part and relished the brutality as the neo-nazi committed rape until the Travolta character stopped them both.

Likewise, CNN earned its payola today and took active part in the sickness. You see, it's "daddy"

While the thrust of concern over the Gonzalez nomination deals with the torture memos, his handling of the Kerik nomination for Homeland Security raises serious questions of basic competence and exercise of judgment used in the vetting process performed by Gonzalez. Reporters very easily ascertained Kerik's negatives, some of which were revealed through public records. This demonstrates a lack of care rising above negligence or gross negligence to the level of outright recklessness in the conduct of a routine background investigation that may not have disclosed these facts.

Kerik is a witness with valuable information concerning Gonzalez' fitness for office, an important issue the Senate must consider in its constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on nominations. He should be subpoenaed to testify to the specifics of the vetting process used by Gonzalez. This testimony can then be compared to Gonzalez' testimony and other evidence of record. Questions may relate to: