Reported: FOX News to assist White House PR campaign for war with Iran

[NI4NI]

The blogger describes her report as unconfirmed, but corroborated by two sources.


http://www.newshounds.us/

[annabanana]

1. Of course they will!

That's their job, after all. Someone remind me again why they haven't lost their license to use out airwaves. . .

[Zodiak]

2. Because they are not on the airwaves

cable is not regulated in the same way as broadcasters by the FCC.

Not that it matters because the networks aren't much better.

[dmr]

3. "Coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard,

Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects."

None of this is surprising, really, because, sadly, we've been here before. Yet, it is still terribly disturbing. If true, it's a conscience decision in propaganda and complicity to murder on their part designed by a madman.

From the New Yorker -

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2007/08/if-there-were-a.html

- snip -

If there were a threat level on the possibility of war with Iran, it might have just gone up to orange. Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University, has written an account of a conversation with a friend who has connections to someone at a neoconservative institution in Washington. Rubin can’t confirm his friend’s story; neither can I. But it’s worth a heads-up:

They 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; 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 don’t think they’ll ever get majority support for this—they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is “plenty.”

- More at link -

[CGowen]

4. K&R But some of them are afraid

Postscript: Barnett Rubin just called me. His source spoke with a neocon think-tanker who corroborated the story of the propaganda campaign and had this to say about it: “I am a Republican. I am a conservative. But I’m not a raging lunatic. This is lunatic.”

[annabanana]

9. “I am a Republican. I am a conservative. But I’m not a raging lunatic."

Pretty soon even the avowed raging lunatics will be railing against them...

[slipslidingaway]

5. K&R n/t

[coco77]

6. No surprise here...

Anytime I check in to see what the slime machine is up to, they have Bolton or some talking head on promoting the bombing of Iran. Bolton,I believe wants to hit North Korea too...

[Pawel K]

7. I can post on a blog too and nothing stops me from making shit up

look, I understand the paranoia around here about Iran, it has been around since the invasion of Iraq. But posting evidance of attacks from blogs has been going on since before the 2004 elections and has been wrong each time. There really needs to be a better source for making a claim like this.

[CGowen]

8. new yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2007/08/if-there-were-a.html

[slipslidingaway]

10. Bill Kristol starts off the post-Labor Day drive to Iran-rhetorically

of course.

video

http://www.newshounds.us/2007/09/04/bill_kristol_starts_off_the_postlabor_day_drive_to_iran_rhetorically_of_course.php#more

"...on Iran, where they are "spinning and cooking up the really good uranium stuff."

Kristol enumerated the talking points that Iran has been beliigerent across the board, taking American citizens "hostage," going forward with a nuclear program despite our demands they stop, and are aggressively helping our enemies in Iraq - training Shia sectarian militias and providing weapons. "We may have to do more to stop Iran, at least with respect to Iraq, leave aside the nuclear program."

The nuclear threat must be bombing with the public: fool me once and all, so the Bush administration has a backup excuse. They've learned from the mistakes with Iraq, though, and are rolling out multiple excuses ahead of time rather than changing reasons after the initial ones are found to be false..."

[slipslidingaway]

11. New Greenwald Video: Fox Attacks! Iran

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/08/25/new-greenwald-video-fox-attacks-iran/

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-eyuFBrWHs

[Supersedeas]

12. if the price is right, and Oil money is good as payment, lunacy can be bought