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2006-10-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-28 13:21|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Excellent. Thx, 'Moose.

Posted by .com 2006-10-28 17:35|| 2006-10-28 17:35|| Front Page Top

#2 It's a great idea, but I'm wondering if it's not 4 years or so too late. One of my biggest gripes against GWB & Co. was their utter failure to realize that the Islamofascists would eventually find willing allies in our mass media, and would use the MSM as a force multiplier.

In the days immediately following 9/11, I was surprised to see all segments of the media behaving as if they were solidly on our side, but even then (while the WTC rubble was still smoldering) I knew that it wouldn't last. I told my wife, "give them six months and they'll be in full fifth-column mode". In fact it took more like six weeks...by the end of October, the media were beginning to burble and coo approvingly about "the resurgent peace movement" and its opposition to ANY military response to 9/11.

I've spent the last five years in a state of mystification re the Administration's interactions with the media. For example...why, Why, WHY wasn't a modern Office of War Information started up by the end of '01? I'm not asking for "management" or censorship of the MSM, but the Administration should have realized that they'd need alternate means of getting their message out sans the MSM partisan rinse cycle. The blogosphere helps, sure...but where are the war-bond tours, or the feature films about Brad Kasal's or Leigh Ann Hester's exploits? "Hollyweird won't make a pro-war movie about the GWOT", you say? Maybe not...but maybe they would if they knew they'd get tax credits against the production costs, or maybe outright grants from the OWI.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2006-10-28 18:38|| 2006-10-28 18:38|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a great idea, but I'm wondering if it's not 4 years or so too late.

If I had known just how complicit the MSM would be with repsect to terrorist interests, I'd have demanded that this sort of effort be an intrinsic part of the War on Terrorism from the get go.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-28 21:40|| 2006-10-28 21:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Taking the fight to the enemy.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-28 22:40|| 2006-10-28 22:40|| Front Page Top

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