Chris Matthews and the Power of Repetition

[rodeodance]

worth the read.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/chris-matthews-and-the-po_b_10039.html

11.02.2005
Chris Matthews and the Power of Repetition

Sunday Sept. 8, 2002 was a red letter day in the White House Iraq Group’s efforts to market the war. That was the day the administration’s war salesmen scored one of their biggest propaganda coups.

That morning, the New York Times ran a front page story co-written by Judy Miller about how Saddam was trying to get a hold of aluminum tubes to be used in building nuclear weapons.
Perfectly timed to coincide with this planted (and bogus) info, the administration blanketed the Sunday shows with its big guns -- who all used the New York Times’ credibility to bolster their case against Saddam and scare the American people.

Dick Cheney did Meet the Press, citing the Times story as evidence that Saddam was “actively and aggressively seeking to acquire nuclear weapons”. Condi Rice went on Wolf Blitzer and warned that the "smoking gun” in Iraq could turn out to be “a mushroom cloud”. Colin Powell on Fox News Sunday, Don Rumsfeld on Face the Nation, and Richard Meyers on This Week all made similar points, raising the specter of a nuked up Saddam. A month later, the House and Senate hastily authorized the administration to go to war.

Of course, the Plamegate investigation has revealed the political alchemy of turning crap into gold via a deadly game of neocon telephone tag. Cheney to Libby to Chalabi to Miller back to Libby for confirmation by “a senior administration official” (or is it “former Hill staffer”?)… then right to the front pages of the Times, which Cheney and Rice and Powell and Meyers and Rummy can wave around as “proof”........

[Cha]

1. So this is the Other Side

of tweety? :crazy:

[Rose Siding]

2. Sending this one to Rockefeller, Feinstein and Durbin

:thumbsup:

[ellenfl]

3. holy cwap, batman! tweety's doing the right thing?

who'd a thunk it. apparently all that repetition practicing he was doing for the admin is paying off . . . but not for shrubco.

ellen fl

[I Have A Dream]

4. We'll take it when we can get it.

I'll still never totally trust Matthews, though.

[gizmo1979]

5. Was Miller on the Bush Payroll

like that black education guy?I think that's the only conclusion you can come to regarding her fawning over the administration.

[Neil Lisst]

6. Chris Matthews has been all over this. He sees it.

Chris Matthews knows this is as significant as Watergate. He has figured out that the White House has masterfully worked the media the past several years, and as he looks back on it, he sees where it all falls into place.

While Chris has disappointed me in recent years, he's been all over this matter. He knows that stomping on Plame at any cost fit with the other things the WH was doing then.

The revelations in the Plame matter demonstrate clearly how the WH actually worked stories into major media, really sleazy stuff.

as seen here