misleading the country and brainwashing the people with the press and the ‘patriotism police’
Posted by hakawi on November 19, 2007
In a dictatorship? in the Arab World? we are used to that I guess – brainwashing and misleading. We have become acclimated to that, capable of differentiating between truths and lies even if we do very little about them.
But in the US, while brainwashing is subtle, the misleading has been so open, so unabashed, that it is as though the administration decided to ‘test’ the degree of acceptance and obedience of the American people. Their lies exposed how utterly vulnerable the majority of main-stream America were.
Watch Bill Moyers’ excellent documentary on Buying the War. This is an almost step by step guide to creating the best propaganda ever put forth by a US admin under the duo Bush/Cheney.
The documentary is not only about how they did it, but rather about how they managed to co-opt mainstream press and made everyone get it so wrong:
How did the evidence disputing the existence of weapons of mass destruction and the link between Saddam Hussein to 9-11 continue to go largely unreported? “What the conservative media did was easy to fathom; they had been cheerleaders for the White House from the beginning and were simply continuing to rally the public behind the President — no questions asked. How mainstream journalists suspended skepticism and scrutiny remains an issue of significance that the media has not satisfactorily explored,” says Moyers. “How the administration marketed the war to the American people has been well covered, but critical questions remain: How and why did the press buy it, and what does it say about the role of journalists in helping the public sort out fact from
propaganda?”
To view the video, click here
Thank you Bill Moyers. Nothing less is expected of you!
Joseph said
Truly, nothing less could be expected from Bill Moyers — He is a communist and a traitor to his country. Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. He used them on Kurds and Iranians. They were mostly moved to Syria in the many months leading up to the invasion. If he did not have them, he could have let the arms inspectors do their job, and he would still be in power. Use a little bit of logic.
hakawi said
Joseph, it is so sad that after all that has been shown on TV and all that has been written and all the books that have come out, that there are people who still believe in the garbage of that Administration. And how is it is, isn’t it, for someone like you, or anyone, to just call people names – traitors, communists.. whatever name you choose just to undermine people’s criticism.
This is not about logic. This is about facts. The facts do not support your case. Read Powell’s confession that it was all lies, and he is the one who himself went to the UN to say what you just said. Read what the inspectors themselves have said, not what this administration is saying. Are they all traitors? including Powell? are all the whistleblowers traitors? There is nothing patriotic about lying to your own people. There is nothing unpatriotic about questioning government especially when the facts lead elsewhere.
But of course, you don’t want to hear that, do you?
If you calm down, stop calling people names, and try to understand logic AND FACTS, you might reach a different conclusion – one that many many have known for a long time, and that many have come to know a little late – but better late than never.