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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 10:10 PM
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"America: Are You F***king Brain Dead?!"
Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 04:04 AM by Lithos
Steve Young's blog
America: Are You F***king Brain Dead?!
by Steve Young | Dec 10 2007 - 7:41am |
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/11482

Before the ink on the "No WMD" NIE report had a chance to dry, neo-conservatives hit the talk show circuit and the broadcast Lords of Loud radio right went into overdrive to spin the information into a full scale intel overdrive...

"Who are you going to believe...the NIE intelligence or the president's?"

Neoconworld sent out the hit squad of Podhorertz and Bolton to attack the reports and the firm of Limbaugh, Levin, and Hannity echoed the message: "Sham!"

-Sixteen intel agencies are in collusion to embarrass and undermine the President.
-The report was not fact, but agenda, driven.

Edited to 3-4 paragraphs to conform to DU's fair use policy for copyrighted material.

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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 10:19 PM
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1. K&R but----what would you do with
a drunken dreidel :D
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 10:27 PM
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4. Dreidel...
spinning top: a toy that looks like a spinning top, used to play games during Hanukkah.
As for a drunken one, I don't know.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 10:33 PM
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6. uhmmm
yeah, I know what a dreidel is.. I used to sell them :D

:yoiks:

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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 01:39 PM
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11. Ever sell any drunken ones?
:shrug:
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BootinUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 10:20 PM
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2. Iran hasn't helped their image
its going to take awhile for the truth to filter down.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 10:27 PM
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3. I hope the dude feels better...
I'm trying to grasp this..here's a guy that works for the media industry...in the business of informing the public..and yet...he blames the very people he himself is paid to inform, for not being informed. And it works. Every time.
Netwar refers to information-related conflict at a grand level between nations or societies. It means trying to disrupt, damage, or modify what a target population knows or thinks it knows about itself and the world around it. A netwar may focus on public or elite opinion, or both. It may involve public diplomacy measures, propaganda and psychological campaigns, political and cultural subversion, deception or interference with local media, infiltration of computer networks and databases, and efforts to promote dissident or opposition movements across computer networks. Thus designing a strategy for netwar may mean grouping together from a new perspective a number of measures that have been used before but we're viewed separately … In other words, netwar represents a new entry on the spectrum of conflict that spans economic, political and social, as well as military forms of "war.
In summary, they see netwar as information-based conflict that:

*Disrupts, damages, or changes what a society thinks about itself and the world.
*Targets elite or public opinion based on the political structure of the enemy State.
*Uses all available networks to carry its message to the target audience.
http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/hammes.htm
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 10:31 PM
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5. I can forgive people for forgetting the lessons of 1000 year old history.
Even 200 year old history. However, four year old history on the other hand, that I thought people would have taken lessons from.
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pansypoo53219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 11:51 PM
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10. i found this quote
"Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.... fool...mu..uh...ah, can't get fooled again."

but you know, american idol is back, so what were you talkin about?
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 10:52 PM
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7. sigh....n/t
Edited on Mon Dec-10-07 10:55 PM by Union Thug
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Snarkoleptic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 11:12 PM
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8. Green Day sums it up nicely.
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-10-07 11:31 PM
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9. Yes

FUBAR ! !
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-11-07 01:46 PM
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12. That is how they win the propaganda war
Edited on Tue Dec-11-07 01:49 PM by CJCRANE
because they can and will spin anything relentlessly.

I've said this before but I believe that if Bush suddenly said the Earth is flat, the shills would be out in force the next day shouting down the Flat-Earth deniers. After a while the Round Earth theory would just be another "opinion".

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