American Enterprise Think Tanker takes money for Iraq Propaganda...

[KoKo]

(note: Michael Rubin often appears on AEI Panels on C-Span and as a commentator on the cables and this article says NYT's used him for "balance" in an article on Iraq Propaganda :rofl:


Buy and Buy: Source in Iraq Payola Story Was Getting Some Himself

By E&P Staff

Published: January 01, 2006 11:55 PM
NEW YORK When The New York Times carried a story last month revealing that a Pentagon contractor was paying Iraqi newspapers to run stories favorable to the U.S., it quoted, perhaps for balance, Michael Rubin, a Middle East scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "I'm not surprised this goes on," he said. "Especially in an atmosphere where terrorists and insurgents - replete with oil boom cash - do the same. We need an even playing field, but cannot fight with both hands tied behind our backs."

It turns out that Rubin was getting money from the same contractor, the Lincoln Group, the Times reveals in a Monday article.

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"I visited Camp Victory and looked over some of their proposals or products and commented on their ideas," Rubin said in an e-mailed response to questions about his links to Lincoln. "I am not nor have I been an employee of the Lincoln Group. I do not receive a salary from them."

He added: "Normally, when I travel, I receive reimbursement of expenses including a per diem and/or honorarium." But Rubin would not disclose how much money he may have received from Lincoln.


http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001772585

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1. Lincoln Group figures were also working with Swiftliars. GOP network of

propagandists are well-compensated by the fascists who took over the once-noble party.

[Atman]

2. More weasel words and obfuscation

"I do not receive a salary from them."

"I am not...an employee of the Lincoln Group."

Did anyone accuse him of "receiving a salary?" Or even of being an "employee?" I am a full-time freelance graphic artist, cartoonist, animator...I received a "salary" from no one. But that doesn't mean I don't get paid by the people that hire me. This is another classic non-denial denial. Another repub who assumes -- perhaps rightly so -- that Americans are simply too stupid to understand a sentence.