Total Media Blackout on Abramoff Memo

[ck4829]

Which stated that Abramoff knew that there would be a war on Iraq a year before it happened.

Memo here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2278123&mesg_id=2278123

Google News Search (Prepare to NOT be surprised):
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22for%20the%20upcoming%20war%20on%20iraq%22&btnG=Search&sa=N&tab=wn

We have a lot of work to do.

[Octafish]

1. KBR

Thanks, ck4829.

They fear, more than anything, the Truth.

[hootinholler]

21. Kellog Brown and Root?

Oh, Kicked B recommended.

-Hoot

[Robbien]

2. There is so much being released on Abramoff this past week

all of it pretty damning. But no one is aware.

Just like no one is aware that the USA is now a country which can torture its prisoners, both domestic and foreign.

[Garbo 2004]

3. Looks like an item to send to Keith Olbermann. I can see him covering the

story.

[brettdale]

4. yep hopefully Keith

Will report on it.

[tblue37]

10. Colbert and Stewart, too.

These are the only ones who report real news now.

[Pryderi]

27. DID ANYONE SEND IT TO KEITH OLBERMANN????

[Imagevision]

5. GOP should dump all their predators, everyone who knew Abramoff

day of reckoning is only 36 days away.

[tuvor]

6. They haven't scrubbed Google yet

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22for+the+upcoming+war+on+iraq%22&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nw

[OneBlueSky]

7. the worse things get, the more apparent becomes the degree to . . .

which the corporate media is no more than a BushCo house organ . . .

it's downright scary how the media neglects so many of the most important real news stories -- because they are, first and foremost, the propaganda arm of the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower and others warned us about . . .

[file83]

8. Makes you wonder what else the media missed before the internet

was around. How many scandals got missed? Amazing.

[tblue37]

11. That's why FAIR ran a yearly list of the ten top

underreported news stories.

[Selatius]

9. I dubbed it "Propaganda by Omission"

You report the truth. You simply don't report all of it.

[Dem2theMax]

12. Kicking with a suggestion that in the morning, we start sending

this out to every media source we can get our hands on. How about it DU'ers? Whatever happened to the Activist Corps? I'm a member and it's been almost a year since the powers that be have used it to ignite us into action. Oh Skinner? :)


:kick:

[babylonsister]

13. It would help if you used Abramoff in your google search:

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=Abramoff

[ck4829]

14. That looks for the general news about Abramoff

The query I put focuses on something specific.

[babylonsister]

15. Yes, but w/o his name, you won't get anything 'specific'.

So your whole premise is false.

There's not a media blackout by any stretch.

[Pawel K]

18. You are completely missing the point

When you search for his name you get all the news about the memos. Those stories do mention that he had over 400 contacts with Bush, what they don't mention is something very important, the email where Abramoff actually mentions the "upcoming war in Iraq" 6 months before the invastion.

[Tesha]

16. *EVERYBODY* knew there'd be war in Iraq the minute Bush was selected.

*EVERYBODY* knew there'd be war in Iraq the minute Bush
was selected. It was a personal vendetta because "they
tried to kill my daddy!"

Bush was exactly that sort of petty pissant.

Only Democrats in Congress were too stupid to know
that Bush would have his war given even a quarter
of a chance.

Tesha

[ck4829]

17. I know

But we have something on paper, that is important too, and the guy who said it was a criminal. That makes it important IMHO.

[theDigger]

19. You know this post actually works against...

Everyone with half a brain cell knew.

There\'s no smoking gun here.

At least not around DU. Where it was clear at that time what was going to go down.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi theDigger!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[hootinholler]

22. If in fact it's stated in email, then yes it is a smoking gun.

Welcome to this roller coaster we call DU

-Hoot

[ck4829]

23. Regardless of what was believed by anyone

We have a document, a physical item of proof. That's what's important.

[lennilenape]

24. Media silent on evidence Abramoff knew

Some of the major media are like the Rush Limbaugh Show; they won't comment until the White House has a good, "We can't talk about that because we're looking into it." And, gives them the go-ahead sign.

[leftchick]

25. kick

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[mike_c]

26. not surprising-- the media is totally complicit...

...in selling the war against Iraq. I would not be at all surprised if some cable news or network execs also knew in advance-- knew in the sense of having been told by Rove so they could "position" themselves properly to cash in on viewer interest, and coincidentally grease the skids for the WH, not in the sense that many of use knew without a doubt that Bush's protestations were BS.