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NBC Loves Its Resident War Profiteer
Selling A War-Shill Exposé
New York, 8:51 AM
Thu Dec 17
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First of all... tenet.
Second of all... do they really believe Barry Fucking McCaffrey ever gave two shits about journalism? The guy was the worst sort of head-in-the-sand drug war hack. Now he's a Pentagon/defense contractor propagandist.
You can slam CNN all day for general shittiness, but at least they hired the genuinely uncompromised Michael Ware and gave him free reign to cover military operations/foreign policy.
12/01/08
First of all, umm... "free rein" I believe it is...
Just sayin' is all.
:-)
12/01/08
The quality of mercy is not strained like vodka;
It droppeth like the free rein in Texas.
I been out of school awhile, so it might not be exact. High school.
12/01/08
pretty sure that's supposed to read "a basic tenet of journalism." dumbass.
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It's a specific American tenancy.
12/01/08
I love when you really sink your teeth into something like this!
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" In McCaffrey's recent MSNBC commentary, he exclaimed enthusiastically, "Thank God for the Abrams tank and . . . the Bradley fighting vehicle," and added for good measure that the "war isn't over until we've got a tank sitting on top of Saddam's bunker." In March alone, IDT [on whose Board of Directors McCaffrey sat] received more than $14 million worth of contracts relating to Abrams and Bradley machinery parts and support hardware."
Some killer product placement, there.
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I say this mainly because this post's got the least views, and I'm a kindly gent who buys the biggest turkey in the shop and gives it to a little orphan kitten.
If it is - please limit the amount of YouTubery to none. Let's have a deep discussion about something that's on everybody's mind - should the discus still be included in Olympic competition?
11/30/08
What the hell you talking about?
It is Saturday, not Sunday Night Fever, and we call it SNF on this side of the ocean.
11/30/08
Did you see how tight those pants were? Testicles-almost-in-the-pockets-tight.
(it isn't one of your home movies, is it?)
11/30/08
suit yourself
pant suit
11/30/08
Mind you, that wok is such a slut.
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Best thing about using a turkey as a murder weapon? You can eat the evidence. And the "evidence" can last for days if you pace yourself.
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I know. Shocking.
11/30/08
I can't help but be astounded by this incredibly naïve attitude that lies at the root of the public's accepting these statements so liberally. People don't understand that these generals show their dissent in subtle ways, and they hardly ever do so in front of cameras. There is just no culture of that in the Pentagon. Just think of what a ruckus it caused when McCaffrey and those three other generals testified before a Senate committee that the Iraq war plans were flawed from the outset because the Bush admin called for too small of a force. Even in that case it is debatable whether they were going against the official Pentagon line, because the Pentagon was totally against Rumsfeld's war plans from the very beginning. But it just goes to show how much of a stigma there is attached to generals speaking out publicly and not merely as unnamed sources. This shouldn't, however, detract from the essential sleaziness of all these double dealings.
11/30/08
Oh, that's McCaffrey. I should really start actually reading these posts.
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12/01/08
Come on, Ryan! This is the same dude who as drug czar decided the best way to deal with our country's crack and heroin problem was to launch those lovely ads against smoking weed. Because weed is a gateway drug, and most of us who used to smoke pot now blow sketchy dudes for drug money.
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"According to an article written by Seymour Hersh published in 2000 in The New Yorker, General McCaffrey committed war crimes during the Gulf War by having troops under his command kill retreating Iraqis after a ceasefire had been declared. Hersh's article "quotes senior officers decrying the lack of discipline and proportionality in the McCaffrey-ordered attack." One colonel told Hersh that it "made no sense for a defeated army to invite their own death. ... It came across as shooting fish in a barrel. Everyone was incredulous."
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Fish in a barrel: it's a U.S. military tradition!
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