September 4, 2007
Cheney Orders Corporate Media to Sell Iran Attack
Buried in the New Yorker and yet uncovered by Paul Joseph Watson is an item
by George Packer about instructions handed-down from on-high by Cheneys
officecall it Neocon Centralto sell the attack of Iran to the American
people. Packer quotes Barnett Rubin, described as having connections to
someone at a neoconservative institution in Washington, and this institution,
likely the American Enterprise Institute, where Bush gets his criminal minds,
has instructed the complaisant corporate media to sell the attack.
They [the sources institution] have instructions (yes, that was the word
used) from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with
Iran in the week after Labor Day, Packer quotes Rubin, it will be coordinated
with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly
Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects. It will be heavy sustained
assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position
from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they dont think theyll ever get
majority support for thisthey want something like 35-40 percent support, which
in their book is plenty.
Needless to say, the sales job will be easy, as around 20 percent of the
public consists of neocon sock puppets and another 15 to 20 percentplugged
into the electronic corporate Borg hivewill be swayed effortlessly enough, as
millions were swayed by lies and cheap tricks in the lead-up to the mass murder
campaign directed against Iraq.
Mr. Packer, however, seems a bit clueless:
Its one thing for the American Enterprise Institute, the Weekly Standard,
et al to champion a war they support. Its another to jump like circus animals
at the crack of the White House whip. If the propaganda campaign predicted by
Rubins friend is launched, less subservient news organizations should ask
certain questions, and keep asking them: Does the Administration expect the
Iranian regime to fall in the event of an attack? If yes, what will replace it?
If no (and it will not), why would the Administration deliberately set about to
strengthen the regimes hold on power? What will the Administration do to
protect highly vulnerable American lives and interests in Iraq, Afghanistan,
and around the world against the Iranian reprisals that will follow? What if
Iran strikes against Israel? What will be the strategy when the Iranian nuclear
program, damaged but not destroyed, resumes? How will the Administration handle
the international alarm and opprobrium that would be
an attacks inevitable fallout?
George Packer has it backwardsthe whip is cracked over the head of the White
House by the neocons at AIE, not the other way around. For some reason no
shortage of corporate media journalists are unable to digest the obvious fact
that the neocons own the White House and occupy much real estate at the
Pentagon.
In the realm of corporate Borg hive media, there is no creature as a less
subservient news organization. Indeed, subservience and a handmaiden role in
service to the ruling elite define corporate news.
It should be obvious by now the neocons are not influenced by international
alarm and opprobrium, in fact it can be reasonably stated they get their
jollies on such.
Unfortunately, Mr. Packer buys into the previously and more or less
effortlessly sold neocon illusion that an attack against Iran will be designed
to get rid of its fantastical nuclear weapons program. In fact, the objective
is to kill thousands of Iranian grandmothers and toddlersas the Muslim and
Arab-hating neocons are basically serial killersand violently pitch the nation
back into the Mesolithic. Tragically, corporate journalists are unable to
realize this simple enough factor if they do realize it, they are not saying
for fear of losing their condos and beamers.
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