US GOVERNMENT STEALS FROM "WAG THE DOG".
Rich | 17.03.2002 22:22
US GOVERNMENT STEALS FROM "WAG THE DOG".
Life imitates art imitating life.
Wag The Dog" is a wonderfully funny film that lampoons "spin doctoring", the art of manufacturing news as
done by special contractors hired by corporations and politicians. The film, which stars Dustin Hoffman and
Robert DiNero, tells a story of a fictional war created in the media to distract the public from an election-eve sex
scandal, and was notable for a staged photograph of the film's President with a young woman in a beret that
mirrored the later-to-be-famous photo of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, whose Oval Office Oralizing had not
yet exploded as a mainstream scandal at the time of filming.
In yet another scene from the script, the spin doctors are faced with a collapse of their fictional war. In order to
salvage the illusion of the war, the spin doctors hit upon the idea of creating a mythical Prisoner Of War to plaster
all over the media.
Well, it seems that Washington DC is devoid of original ideas, and they have reached into this film for the next
plot device to sell the conquest of Iraq to the public. Peering into their crystal ball, the US Department of Defense
has decided that Scott Speicher , who has been treated as either dead or missing in action since his aircraft was
shot down over Iraq during Desert Storm, might still, maybe, kinda, could be, still be alive and a prisoner of war.
03/16/02 Iraqi pilot reclassified a POW.
Careful reading of this article confirms that the US Government doesn't actually have any proof that Scott is still
alive. Scott's "resurrection" is the purest publicity device to try to whip up public support for the conquest of Iraq,
as calculated and cynical as its fictional inspiration in the film "Wag The Dog".
Life imitates art imitating life.
Wag The Dog" is a wonderfully funny film that lampoons "spin doctoring", the art of manufacturing news as
done by special contractors hired by corporations and politicians. The film, which stars Dustin Hoffman and
Robert DiNero, tells a story of a fictional war created in the media to distract the public from an election-eve sex
scandal, and was notable for a staged photograph of the film's President with a young woman in a beret that
mirrored the later-to-be-famous photo of Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, whose Oval Office Oralizing had not
yet exploded as a mainstream scandal at the time of filming.
In yet another scene from the script, the spin doctors are faced with a collapse of their fictional war. In order to
salvage the illusion of the war, the spin doctors hit upon the idea of creating a mythical Prisoner Of War to plaster
all over the media.
Well, it seems that Washington DC is devoid of original ideas, and they have reached into this film for the next
plot device to sell the conquest of Iraq to the public. Peering into their crystal ball, the US Department of Defense
has decided that Scott Speicher , who has been treated as either dead or missing in action since his aircraft was
shot down over Iraq during Desert Storm, might still, maybe, kinda, could be, still be alive and a prisoner of war.
03/16/02 Iraqi pilot reclassified a POW.
Careful reading of this article confirms that the US Government doesn't actually have any proof that Scott is still
alive. Scott's "resurrection" is the purest publicity device to try to whip up public support for the conquest of Iraq,
as calculated and cynical as its fictional inspiration in the film "Wag The Dog".
Rich
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WORD!
17.03.2002 23:22
I completely agree that this is a wag the dog strategy by the us media. In fact you should look up an organization by the name of F.A.I.R. a media watchdog. They did a report recently on a pentagon proposal to lie to foriegn allies in an effort to generate support for the governents war on liberty. Also the media here (for example: national public radio) have been showing increased support for our dictators plans to use micro nuclear weapons against "axis of evil" states in the event of a biologic or chemical attack on the u.s. soldiers. If you think that's sick you should hear about the corperate coup that our dictator is planning in the event that there is another "terrorist attack" here. People here hardly know thier own neighbors let alone have enough of a sense of community to want to protect thiers from the forces of government. We have a protest localy and we're "lucky" if 500 people show up. Many "Nactavist" groups in the erea would consider even this a success. Meanwhile the governent is taking people to be interegated and no one knows who they are! We anarchists fought like mad against the state in seattle only to be "SHAMED" by the media and thier mainstream actavist allys. I guess that's what we get for questioning authority rather than bieng actavist sheep.
!HECKNO!
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18.03.2002 06:17
Mike
Thanks MIKE!
19.03.2002 03:17
!heckno!