Bush Nominates Neocon War Apologist to U.S. Propaganda Board

[marmar]

via AlterNet's PEEK:



Bush Nominates Neocon War Apologist to U.S. Propaganda Board

Posted by KingOneEye, Daily Kos at 9:39 AM on July 13, 2008.

Not that we had a ton of credibility overseas to begin with.




The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) is the federal agency responsible for all U.S. government and government sponsored, non-military, international broadcasting. Its affiliates include the Voice of America, Alhurra, Radio Free Europe, and Radio and TV Martí. If its mission was not originally intended to be a purveyor of propaganda, the Bush administration has seen to it that that is what it has become.

Now President Bush has made his latest attempt to further mire the agency in disgrace by nominating Clifford May to the Board. May is a former Republican National Committee communications director and the President of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, whose list of directors and advisors reads like a who's who of neocon warmongers. He is an advocate of torture abroad, the suspension of civil liberties at home, and always the supremacy of America by virtue of its military might. As a writer for the National Review and a frequent guest on television news programs, he has a record of deliberately inflammatory and partisan rhetoric.

On coddling terrorists: " demand that foreign terrorists abroad be given the same privacy protections enjoyed by American citizens here at home."

Actually, Democrats were demanding that Americans be given the privacy protections they are promised by the Constitution.

On the success of the surge: "...the threat of an Iraqi civil war has diminished and there is no 'resistance' movement to speak of."

Since May made this claim, 236 more American troops died in Iraq, along with 4,591 Iraqis.

On the Left as traitors: "...some of those on the left who would like to see America defeated in Iraq as a demonstration exercise that U.S. power never, never can be used for good."

Setting aside the repulsive assertion that the Left is rooting for defeat, May erroneously implies that there is some good in BushCo's occupation of Iraq.

This isn't the first time Bush has used the BBG for blatantly political purposes. He had previously installed the utterly corrupt Kenneth Tomlinson as chairman. Tomlinson, thankfully, didn't last long. ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/91320/

[Ilsa]

1. Oh, this is just 'fn great.

These people are so power-hungry, it's sickening. I think the only good that can come of this is May won't be on tv spewing his ideology much if he is busy with this job. But I've been wrong before.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. For a moment I thought Tony Snow rose from the grave

The propaganda is gonna get worst as their system collapses before them

[stillcool]

3. I can't imagine it getting worse..

but then again I never imagined half the shit that's gone down would be possible.