It's Propaganda Day at the White House ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

I realize every day is propaganda day at the Bush WH, but today it's official.




White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, right, speaks with
radio talk show host Marc Bernier of Orlando, Fla., left, in a
tent outside the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2006,
as Bush administration officials set up camp on the lawn for
interviews with out-of-town radio talk show hosts, hoping to
boost Republicans as elections near. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061024/480/1217765574d443e096c198bf80b7ab6a

[Mr Rabble]

1. man how i hate this administration.

[Connie_Corleone]

2. Is this legal?

Why don't they just make the White House the RNC national headquarters.

[Demoiselle]

11. They can't raise money from the White House...but..

ever since this country stupidly dropped the equal time provision for broadcasters
it was just a matter of time before the right wing dreamed this little campaign trick up.
It makes me want to puke.

[krkaufman]

36. How is this operation not considered a campaign effort ...

... and, therefore, an in-kind contribution from all the broadcasters?

[StellaBlue]

28. Wow

He sure was hot back in '72.

[EFerrari]

3. We need to bookmark these pix for the trial. n/t

[RedEarth]

4. Hate Radio Day.............

[shain from kane]

5. "Touchdown. " And Skelotar will kick the extra point. n/t

[tridim]

6. I guess the catapult is locked and loaded outside of the tent?

I probably don't even need to ask this, but were any Liberal/Moderate/Sane talk show hosts invited to speak with their government?

[Demit]

7. Look at all those pudgy white men with their chipmunk cheeks.

Except Skeletor, who (drat!) always skews the curve.

[knitter4democracy]

31. That's what I thought.

Where are the women? Where is anyone of any ethnic background? Is that not allowed or something?

[Beetwasher]

8. Is This Being Done W/ MY TAXES???? Is There A SINGLE Left Leaning Commentator?

Or is it all rightwing douchebags?

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Your tax dollars at work for the GOP...

INVESTIGATE EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sugar Smack]

10. EWWW!

My skin's CRAWLING!

[The Count]

12. Weren't they excoriating Gore for some e-mails sent from the WH?

Because they were campaign related? So, if it's in a tent on the Green Lawn it's OK?????

[acmejack]

15. I'm sure Alberto cleared it.

Of course, Aberto clears many things.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Disgusting....fascism in all its glory.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Piggies at the trough!

:puke:

[Stephanie]

16. Rove is such a weenie.

Look at him shake his little fists.

[pacalo]

17. And Democratic taxpayers are helping to pay for this wingding-in-a-tent?!

On the White House lawn?!

Can you imagine the outrage if Clinton would have done this? Fact is, he wouldn't have done it, nor has any other president done it, because it is ethically wrong.

[butterfly77]

18. DESPERATION!

[tex-wyo-dem]

20. BINGO! That's exactly what this is (Desperation!)

They're desperately trying to shore up their base with this little propaganda blitz.

Afraid of the subpoena power, they are...they know that, in all likelyhood, they could be staring at a cell wall in Levinworth within a few months.

[butterfly77]

21. last night hannity tried his best to get....

one of the leading repugs who tried to impeach clinton to say something good about bush and he wouldn't, you could see the disappointment in his eyes. Hannity just gave up.

[Kurovski]

19. A circus under the Big Top!

Raging elephants and scary clowns.

[Rex]

22. Is that FEMA?

Man, Rove must be desperate! This is a very good sign for Dems! If these pics are an indication. I think we're going to take Congress in a big way this year.

[Faux pas]

23. It would have been great if no one had showed up. Pimps and

'tutes' all gathered to spread the manure.

[OzarkDem]

24. I predict this will be discussed in history books some day

as an example of modern day propaganda in the U.S.

[Keepontruking]

25. Propaganda???

Looking like a DORK is nothing to CROW about !!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Circus Girl

[mogster]

26. Strategy is terror, terror is strategy

[dapper]

27. I don't care Dem or Repug

I don't ever want to see this done with my tax dollar. The flippin' White House is for running the Country - not to run a re-election campaign! The money wasted on this could have gone to getting Katrina victims back to their homes (etc..etc)

Dap

[Blackhatjack]

29. So Where Was Air America? Why Were They Not There w/Their Tent?

It would have been interesting to see how Bush/Rove handled it. Even if no one would agree to talk to them, they could have done an 'on the ground' report of who was there, who was doing interviews, and who refused to speak to them.

If they had refused to let Air America set up with all the rightwing blowhards, the question would have been does the White House only belong to the Republicans or does it belong to all Americans?

We need to put this WH to the test. Fight back.

[slater71]

30. How much is all this free radio campaign time worth?

[spanone]

32. Set up a Freakin' tent on the White House lawn. Is that legal?

This was like a flea market of propaganda. Going table to table spewing propaganda.
CNN's report on it was fairly cynical, which gave me hope.

[Generic Other]

33. I remember the FBI investigating Gore for making a phone call

from the WH. Acting like it was some kind of campaign violation. Didn't that happen when he was VP?
The nerve of this government. The fact that it isn't open to liberals and progressives is either discrimination or partisan campaigning. One or the other. Pure and simple. Why do they get away with this?

Sickening.

[Emit]

34. Remember this from last week?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2425602



The White House yesterday released a photo of President Bush meeting with right-wing radio hosts.

The guests:

– Sean Hannity (”aking sure Nancy Pelosi doesn’t become the speaker” is “worth … dying for“)
– Neal Boortz (Islam is a “deadly virus“)
– Laura Ingraham (Sens. Biden and Boxer are “on the side of” Kim Jong-Il)
– Mike Gallagher (Gore and Hitler “brilliantly put together side by side” in campaign video)
– Michael Medved (”he subject of my conversation with the president of the United States” was that Islam has “a special violence problem.”)

[Stephanie]

35. follow the money