From Wired’s “Rummy Resurfaces, Calls for U.S. Propaganda Agency”;
Private media does not get up in the morning and say what can we do to promote the values and ideas that the free Western nations believe in? It gets up in the morning and says they’re going to try to make money by selling whatever they sell… The way they decided to do that is to be dramatic and if it bleeds it leads is the common statement in the media today. They’ve got their job, and they have to do that, and that’s what they do.
We need someone in the United States government, some entity, not like the old USIA . . . I think this agency, a new agency has to be something that would take advantage of the wonderful opportunities that exist today. There are multiple channels for information . . . The Internet is there, pods are there, talk radio is there, e-mails are there. There are all kinds of opportunities. We do not with any systematic organized way attempt to engage the battle of ideas and talk about the idea of beheading, and what’s it’s about and what it means. And talk about the fact that people are killing more Muslims than they are non-Muslims, these extremists. They’re doing it with suicide bombs and the like. We need to engage and not simply be passive and allow that battle of competition of ideas.”
Notice how effortlessly, how easy, how endemic it is for these Neocons to include the fearmongering in their speech. Here, much like the continuous thread of the Bush Grindhouse, if we don’t engage in a propaganda program, terrorists are going to come and kills us.
Ol’ Snowflakes doesn’t, necessarily, distinguish how this will be different, from the propaganda machine he manned from the Pentagon during his reign of terror … Or, how it is different from the on-going operation out of the Bush Grindhouse
Rumsfeld was one of the featured speakers yesterday, at the Network Centric Warfare 2008, sponsored by a handful of mega-corporations, many, no doubt, that have a vested interest in ramping up the warfare propaganda, the better to curry fat contracts if the volume is amped up.
I’m sure, the shadow, play government that he and fellow weekend warrior, Vice President Dick Cheney, operate already have a fully-functional Propaganda Agency up-and-running, no doubt, capable of seamlessly turning into our official, working Propaganda Agency.
So many logistics to work out.
Would this compete with, or augment, the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) and White House Iraq and Iran Group (WHIIG)?
When will this be launched – August is out, per the razor-sharp thinking of Andy Card?
Hmmm … Maybe Rumsfeld’s wishful, and wistful, statement, is a ruse? Maybe it’s already in action and Rumsfeld is just out there to throw people off the scent?
This project, shamelessly, but certainly, could be something that would come out of a Rumsfeld-styled propaganda agency
Sigh … You know what they say … You have to go to war with the propaganda you have, not the propaganda you might want or wish to have at a later time …
Bonus Rumsfeld Ramblings
Top Ten Cloves: What Would Be Different If Rumsfeld Was A Dog, But Still Secretary of Defense
