Pat Catapults the Propaganda

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." Joseph Goebbels

At Agitprop, we earlier reported on the Iraqi newspaper fake-news-story story here and here. In the spirit of Joseph Goebbels, perennial presidential candidate and right-wing "personality" Pat Buchanan insists that "our guys" in Iraq "have got every right to have good news [put into Iraqi newspapers] ... even if it's got to be planted or bought."

He and Armstrong Williams should get together. Or maybe Pat can pick up a gig at The Lincoln Group.

tags: pat buchanan lincoln group fake iraq news stories iraq war on terror

Comments

[HelenWheels]

You know, he and Bill O'Lielly keep getting more insane and delusional by the day. I heartily wonder if both are trying to be forced into retirement or somesuch. Nothing else explains the rampant idiocy of their choice of things to skew.

He and his ilk are a scary lot, to be sure.

[rev. quitter]

rights. i love that.

[fred]

Pat Buchanan. Now there is a patriot. Ballista first class.

[Gotham Image]

Pat knows the war was sold bogusly, yet his righist itch gets the better of his mind. He just can't help himself - all those years in the Nixon White House. He's looking for another Pat to do the heavy lifting back home:

On First Looking Into Fitzgerald's Indictment

A Pre-Emptive Poem (10-26-05)
From A Keats Ghost To Gothamimage:

Much have I witnessed the Scandal of Bush
And many awful lies and outrages seen;
Round many breaches have I been
Which bards in fealty to Republic hold.
Oft of one great Injury had I been told
That worried the Founders in repose;
Yet did I never see it so clear
Till I heard Fitzgerald speak out loud and bold:
Then I felt like some Justice on High
When a pure Truth comes into his view:
Or like Honest Abe when with wise eyes
He saved the Union - and all his men
Look'd at each other with great relief -
Silent, upon a stillness at Appomattox.

[grannyinsanity]

What happens if they believe good news that is untrue?

[actor212]

I'm amazed, seeing as Pat has been four-square against the war since inception to see this.

And yet, that quote is priceless.

[qrswave]

appalling.

[comandante agi]

good news is better than bad news.

[tescht]

In the Hardball interview with Chris Matthews, Pat Buchanan makes the statement;

"I mean, deception, misinformation, disinformation, deceit, propaganda-- these are all instruments of war."

From a Biblical/Christian prospective...
are not these qualities the instruments of the Devil/Lucifer himself?

[Gotham Image]

Yes,but from a Biblical perspective, the capacity for good and evil, lies within all of us. Pat's just suggesting it's ok to tap into the intruments of evil once you are doing evil, before you ask for forgiveness. If I read his mind correctly,that is.

On a certain theoretical level, he makes sense - if you are gonna Shock & Awe all the babies brains in Baghdad, once wrong with a little hand jive and a whispering campaign along the way - It may cut down on more killing.

But this is where Pat falls down - he claims to be against Empire, but the only reason we have to lie because of the global nature of communications - Otherwise, we could have used the normal deceptions used at a tactical level, as is done in all wars.

However, because of global communication, the Bushbots feel they have to lie to people in Iowa, so as to maintain a lie in Fallujah. This serves to degrade the Republic because so many of Bush's followers believe a bunch of lies it makes it hard to respect their arguments- You can't argue with them because their minds have been so stuffed with this monkey grease and banana smoke, that everyone else saw as a lie.

That's bad for the Republic - and Pat should know that -

[Gotham Image]

I meant "what's wrong," not "once wrong>"

It is true that these kind of deceptions seem worse because they play into a larger Bush-Cheney theme.