Monday, September 18, 2006

So Much for Independent Media ....


Washington Post Hires Top Bush Speechwriter:
"Few media marching bands have beat the Iraq war drums more frantically and with more influence than the editorial pages of the Washington Post. On Monday, the Post announced the hiring of another drummer boy, one who played a key propaganda role inside the Bush White House....

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In their new book Hubris, Michael Isikoff and David Corn write that it was Gerson who:

inserted references to the yellowcake-from-Niger tale into various Bush speeches, including the 2003 State of the Union address

helped prepare Secretary of State Colin Powell's dishonest and bellicose speech to the UN

conceived Team Bush's trademark paranoid 'sound byte' warning of a potential Iraq nuclear program: 'The first sign of a smoking gun might be a mushroom cloud.'"
Photo credit: White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett (far left) watches as national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice and President Bush look over the State of the Union speech being held by Michael Gerson. (Eric Draper/The White House/Newsweek)

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