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US lags in propaganda war: Rumsfeld
This is absurd on so many levels it makes 3-D chess look like tic tac toe.
1. Does it ever occur to anyone on this ship of fools that maybe the reason the "ragheads" hate us is not packaging, but torture, foreign occupation, war crimes and, oh yeah, calling them ragheads?
2. Given that much of Iraq doesn't have electricity most of the time, how exactly are theinsurgents dead enders outgunning us with electronic communication (which, experts tell me, require electricity)?
3. So the $1.6 billion we are already spending on PR is chicken feed compared to the vast resources of said dead enders?
4. Did it ever occur to you chuckleheads that the reason your enemies use blogs to communicate is because you control the mass media megaphones?
5. So if I teach you how to use blogger, will you forgo the extra $72.4 billion war chest you just asked for and, based on your argument, must be throwing away on your ill-fated "five and dime store efforts?"
This isn't Coke vs. Pepsi, guys. The reason they aren't buying what we're selling is nothing J. Walter Thompson can fix.
Oh, and there was this:
The United States lags dangerously behind al Qaeda and other enemies in getting out information in the digital media age and must update its old-fashioned methods, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday.
Modernization is crucial to winning the hearts and minds of Muslims worldwide who are bombarded with negative images of the West, Rumsfeld told the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Pentagon chief said today's weapons of war included e-mail, Blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras and Web logs, or blogs.
This is absurd on so many levels it makes 3-D chess look like tic tac toe.
1. Does it ever occur to anyone on this ship of fools that maybe the reason the "ragheads" hate us is not packaging, but torture, foreign occupation, war crimes and, oh yeah, calling them ragheads?
2. Given that much of Iraq doesn't have electricity most of the time, how exactly are the
3. So the $1.6 billion we are already spending on PR is chicken feed compared to the vast resources of said dead enders?
4. Did it ever occur to you chuckleheads that the reason your enemies use blogs to communicate is because you control the mass media megaphones?
5. So if I teach you how to use blogger, will you forgo the extra $72.4 billion war chest you just asked for and, based on your argument, must be throwing away on your ill-fated "five and dime store efforts?"
This isn't Coke vs. Pepsi, guys. The reason they aren't buying what we're selling is nothing J. Walter Thompson can fix.
Oh, and there was this:
Rumsfeld also cited the methodical U.S. response to a Newsweek magazine report that interrogators at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had placed the Koran, Islam's holy book, on toilets and flushed one down.Yeah? I got your facts right here, pal.
After riots around the world killed 16 people, Newsweek retracted the story.
"It was posted on Web sites, sent in e-mails, repeated on satellite television, radio stations for days, before the facts could be discovered," Rumsfeld said.
posted by bluememe at 2/17/2006
1 Comments:
I beliebe there is another aspect to his media plan, "The Pentagon chief said today's weapons of war included e-mail, Blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras and Web logs, or blogs."
The obvioux next step is to prevent dissimination on such "weapons of war", ie., shut down blogs that do not send the "right" messages. Make no mistake, they are well on their way to shutting down the internet, they will replicate the China/ Microsoft deal here. And they will do it before the next election is my guess.
One other thing, did you notice in the UK that the producers, actors and actual internees from the award winning film, Road to Guantanamo" were arrested under the new UK law on supporting violence? I believe that the US and UK are on a fast track to becoming Stalin wannabes, and with two world economies under domination they will be off to a good start.Look out EU!
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