[Media-watch] Won't get fooled again? - Washington Times - 23/11/2004

[John Meed]

Dear Mediawatchers

I read the article by Paul Craig Roberts with interest until I reached the
sentence:

'The Republican, corporate, Jewish-owned media is with President Bush.'

Clearly, Paul Craig Roberts has done a detailed analysis of the racial
backgrounds of all America's media owners. In the process, did he use
Hitler's criteria for defining Jewishness?

My printout of the article went straight in the bin at that point. 'Won't
get fooled again'?!!?

John


On 23/11/04 10:08 am, "Julie-ann Davies" <jadavies2004 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20041122-091655-2195r.htm
> November 23, 2004
> Won't get fooled again?
> 
> 
> By Paul Craig Roberts
> 
> 
> Web only
> 
>   It is not yet Bush's second term. All available U.S. troops are tied
> down in Iraq by a few thousand lightly armed insurgents. Go-it-alone Bush
> has isolated America from her allies. And the neocons want to spread their
> war to Iran.
>   The Bush administration is recycling the lies that it used to invade
> Iraq: Iran is acquiring nuclear weapons that will be given to terrorists. In
> a display of loyalty to a ruthless neocon administration calculated to win
> him appointments to corporate boards, outgoing Secretary of State Colin
> Powell told reporters that Iran was working on nuclear missiles.
> 
> The source for this effort to spread hysteria? One "walk-in" source with
> unverified documents. Most likely, the source is a member of an Iranian
> exile group given the assignment by neocons Richard Perle and John Bolton.
>   One might think that Powell would be suffering shame enough for lying to
> the United Nations about Iraq. Apparently not, as his last act against world
> peace is to spread neocon propaganda that Iran is going nuke.
>   The U.S. media, now a tamed propaganda organ for the White House,
> dutifully repeated Powell's unverified claims, thus providing "reports" for
> Bush to cite as evidence that Iran was rushing ahead with the development of
> nuclear weapons.
>   The International Atomic Energy Agency conducts regular inspections in
> Iran. The IAEA recently issued a report stating that it has found no
> evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iran.
>   Real evidence, however, is no match for neocon propaganda.
>   And the propaganda is pouring out of the well-oiled neocon machine.
> French, German and British agreements that confine Iran to the peaceful use
> of nuclear energy are in the way of the neoconservatives' intention to
> spread the war to Iran and must be discredited.
>   On Nov. 20, Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem
> Post, hysterically accused Europe of defending "Iran's ability to attain the
> wherewithal to destroy the Jewish state." Glick "exposes" France's efforts
> to prevent the outbreak of wider war in the Middle East as a trick: "France
> wishes only to box in the U.S. to the point that the Americans will not be
> able to continue to fight the war against terrorism."
>   The neoconservative Heritage Foundation promptly broadcast Glick's
> hysterical rants into the Republican noise machine, reviving talk radio
> calls for nuking France, "America's oldest enemy."
>   Three years ago, Ann Coulter was fired by National Review, a neocon
> publication, when she declared: "We should invade (Muslim) countries, kill
> their leaders and convert them to Christianity." Today, such violent words
> are common parlance.
>   There is no evidence whatsoever in support of the claims the Bush
> administration is making about Iranian nukes. The purpose of these false
> claims is to create fear that will breech the public's opposition to a
> draft. The neocons are desperate for troops for their Middle Eastern War.
>   For a decade or longer, the neocons who control the Bush
> administration's foreign and military policies have been writing papers
> advocating a U.S.-Israeli conquest of the Middle East. A moronic president
> has given them their chance.
>   Anxious to get their war underway, the neocons launched their invasion
> before they had the necessary manpower for the task. Bogged down in Iraq,
> the neocons are desperate to widen the war before the American public has
> enough of the pointless carnage and forces a withdrawal.
>   Thus, before the Iraqi war is finished, the neocon propaganda machine is
> at work creating fear that the United States is in danger from Iranian nukes
> unless America pre-emptively attacks Iran.
>   Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But Americans
> are perfectly set up to be fooled twice. Right-wing talk radio has
> conservative patriots absolutely demanding to be fooled. Christian rapture
> propagandists have conservative congregations waiting to be wafted up to
> heaven. The Republican, corporate, Jewish-owned media is with President
> Bush. Military types are determined to avenge the Vietnam loss by winning
> the war against Islam into which they have been conned.
>   Critics are dismissed as "enemies" who are "against us." Reason and
> common sense are not features of the Bush administration. It is all blind
> emotion, a replay of "The Triumph of the Will."
>   Paul Craig Roberts is a syndicated columnist.
> 
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