In Praise of Propaganda
So this week’s assault on the western world comes once again, not from al-queda, but from the puffy shirt ruling class of journalism. Apparently our brethren on the left have discovered the unseemly weapon of propaganda has been usurped by the evildoers on the White House. How dare they!
When I first learned that our country was paying editors overseas for story placement, my first reaction was somewhat more subdued. My reaction was precisely this:
“Where do I send the check?”
I Thought, What a cool idea! You mean we can pay people to tell our side of the story? Heck that’s easy! Sign me up! 10 bucks of good press for our guys saves how many bullets?
You see, I wouldn’t need to resort to propaganda if I had anything resembling an honest, open and non-partisan media, but since I don’t have anything close to even a neutral press, I say what the hell! let's go for it! You see, unlike the puffy shirts and pouty faces of the NY Times, I actually want our side to win! I know that flies in the face of the idea of an objective press, but I don’t give a damn! You see, the people we are defending in Iraq (Oh my heavens! What a giveaway, he’s says we are defending people in Iraq! ) are mighty prejudiced against the people of the west and with the constant sewer of hate filled propaganda that comes from the mouths of these self loathing losers, it actually helps the make case of al-queda. THAT – is propaganda too, only because we live in a culture of the ‘virtuous rebel” we look excuse it and look the other way. “Well, its free speech” they say. Sure it is, until it starts getting people killed – our people, then it’s a tool of the enemy. I’m not looking the other way, I’m looking right that cover of the New York Times and calling it what it is, Propaganda. Propaganda and moral support for murdering buggering sneak thieves and child killers who’s only real virtue in the eyes of the New York Times is that it opposes George W. Bush.
The people of Iraq have a right to feel hate towards the people of the west, they have been treated pretty bad by our side in the past, I can understand their misgivings. But the problem is made worse by a bunch of martini swilling Vietnam-era press pool holdovers who cant get their docker covered fannies out the “green zone” because they are too busy telling the busboys stories of how they were out in the “boonies the Dan Rather covering the real story at Khe Sahn and let me tell you sonny, it was haaairy, and this place looks just like Saigon in 1972, bush is knee deep in the big muddy let me tell you, its just like Nixon and his cronies all over again- all Im saying is “give peace a chance, get the peace process going again… Hey saheed, get me another olive and transport it over in a gallon of vodka will ya...?”.
Do we need propaganda to win the war?, hell yes we do, and from the looks of it, we need a lot more! Does the left really REALLY want to say that this snot covered drivel they call reporting is NOT propaganda? Lets go over “the devils resume of Western Journalism in Iraq” shall we?