Anyone watching General Petraeus' speech on CNN? Prepared by NeoCons

[KoKo]

I tried to watch his Press Conference or whatever it was on CNN just now and was amazed at how "scripted" it seems to be. He's reading in a monotone about Al Qaeda iss in Iraq ...it's Al Qaeda's "central front" in the war. Al Qaeda.... Al Qaeda ..... Al Qaeda

Then he started to go into the successes except for Syria and Iran's influence reading off numbers and statistics in that monotone.

Who wrote the speech for him? Or, was it a "consensus" deal written by a group?

I felt I was watching the Iraq War being SOLD once again.

MSNBC didn't carry it...they are having a Dem Bash fest over there promoting tonight's debate.

[Kagemusha]

1. I've read he quietly had restrictions against domestic propaganda lifted

so he can propagandize to the American people without restraint, uniform or no uniform.

[Solly Mack]

2. Yes - and it's the same old shit

[karlrschneider]

3. I tried to watch some of it but lost interest pretty quickly.

bla bla bla...is all I heard.

[Norquist Nemesis]

4. I was watching the Dem Bash

--emphasis on "was".

Not surprised about Petraeus though. I'm sure any remarks he made were thoroughly vetted by the political eyes of the WH.

[flyarm]

5. i turned it on..but have mentally tuned it out..and the msm is asking

dumb shit questions..or pre planned questions of this tool man!!

fly

[bahrbearian]

6. They say he wrote the book on fighting the insurgency,, when did

he do all the research and where, all of a sudden he became an expert?

[leftofthedial]

7. same shit they've been spewing for four years

same non-questioning from the assembled propaganda hacks, pretending that the whole thing isn't a house of prevaricated cards.

[bigtree]

8. completely dishonest to focus so much on al-Qaeda

when their own intelligence says al-Qaeda is responsible for little more than a single percentage of the violence in Iraq

[Roland99]

9. I've noticed the news repeaters (er, reporters) chewing up the "Al Qaeda" qualifier left and right.

Then they'll bury an "alleged" somewhere further down the article.

[goclark]

10. Same old Chimp Paint Brush ~ Rove at it again

:puke:

[legin]

11. Speech writers = marketing people

My impression is that when Petraeus first went to Iraq he took some marketing people with him to sing his praises at press conferences.

Petraeus perhaps got his current position because he marketed himself the best of all the generals who have been out there.

"Advertising sells product" as my old boss at work used to say.

Petraeus is a complete squid but he might be a slightly more intelligent one. He may need to be watched carefully.

[LibDemAlways]

12. I saw the Dem bash fest on MSNBC, too, but turned

it off when some asshole called Kucinich a "flake."

Moyers was so incredible last night on the media/Bush Crime Family partnership in beating the drums for Iraq. Now I'd like to see him call the whores out on their incessant Dem bashing while giving a free pass to repuke criminals.