Keyword: Michael Ledeen

Thompson, Hannity and the Fox War Network Email Print

I along with many others recently received an e-mail from Robert Greenwald stressing an important point - the manner in which Fox News has become a blatant neoconservative spear launcher in the war realm.

Greenwald knows Fox well, having produced an excellent documentary Outfoxed that doubtlessly still provokes curses in the station's boardroom.  Greenwald issued a call to concerned Americans to energize and vigorously fight Fox in its attempt to circulate war propaganda to launch another war in the Middle East, this time in Iran.

An important link needs to be recognized stressing that Fox News engaged in vigorous saber rattling propaganda against Iraq.  In addition to numerous efforts to enrage Americans that Saddam Hussein needed to be overthrown, Fox commentators warned unrelentingly that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein intended to unleash against America.

The Fox war drumbeaters were at optimum level in lavishly praising Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations, in which badly flawed information was deceitfully presented as fact.  Fox was so impressed by Powell's presentation, one that many informed Middle East analysts immediately began questioning and refuting, was classified as "a virtuoso performance."

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Bobcats in a Brave, New World Email Print

"Preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader -- a dictator -- willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures,' which few know how, or are willing to employ." -- Michael Ledeen
By Sheila Samples

Goodness gracious! Henny Penny! Since defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and vice president Dick Cheney teamed up to lead the charge to create a New World Order, the whole universe has become untidy. Very untidy. My friend Bernie says Dick and Rummy's big plan to take over the world by waging continuous war is kinda like baptizing a bobcat -- ain't gonna happen.

"You can't hold him," Bernie said. "You can't turn him loose. All you can do is jump up and down and run around in circles with your hands around his neck and hope you can choke him to death before he tears you to pieces."

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