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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld Says Extremists Winning Media War
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| 2/17/06
| AMY WESTFELDT
Posted on 02/17/2006 2:03:38 PM PST by Libloather
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Al-Qaida and other Islamic extremist groups have poisoned the Muslim public's view of the United States...
Big Media in the United States does their part to help...
To: Libloather
Yup. Fox News, Brit Hume, etc included.
Genius.
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:04:33 PM PST
by
Windsong
(Jesus Saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups)
To: Libloather
deft use of the Internet and other modern communications methods that the American government has failed to master We need to bring in Al Gore. He invented the damn thing!
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:06:21 PM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(Happy New Year! Breed like dogs!)
To: Libloather
Extremists Winning Media War I'm guessing they have someone on the inside. ;-)
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:06:40 PM PST
by
TChris
("Unless you act, you're going to lose your world." - Mark Steyn)
To: romanesq
This is part of what I was mentioning. In SF we call this psychops.
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:10:11 PM PST
by
GarySpFc
(de oppresso liber)
To: PsyOps; Criminal Number 18F; Steel Wolf; hchutch
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:12:45 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: Libloather
Rumsfeld has often described the U.S. government as being disadvantaged by its ponderous approach to dealing with the mediaLet General Honore handle the media. He won't ponder much.
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:19:19 PM PST
by
Just Lori
(Trying to reason with a liberal is like sucking spaghetti through a straw)
To: Libloather
The seditious media is stabbing us in the back!
In March 2000, CNN showed a picture of the Virgin Mary made out of dung:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/STYLE/arts/03/27/museum.flap/index.htmlRight there on CNNs website you have a picture of "The Holy Virgin Mary" by British artist Chris Ofili. He used elephant dung and images of female genitalia in that work. This garbage posing as art was deemed offensive to Christians. CNN had no qualms about showing it and offending Christians. It has remained on their web site until today. Nearly five years now.
In fact, if you click on the link above, you will see this work - still proudly displayed on CNNs website.
Now the violent Muslims are rampaging and burning things - again - about a few cartoons, and CNN says, CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of respect for Islam.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/02/05/cartoon.protests/index.html
Follow this link and read the last line in the article.
Hypocrisy?
Do not trust the MSM.
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:25:29 PM PST
by
Bon mots
To: Libloather; murdocj; archy; Calpernia; xzins; Ragtime Cowgirl
their terrorist network is in a media battle for the hearts and minds of MuslimsNot just Muslims.
This is a part of the conflict in which soft power and the pajamahadeen can help.
Ever since Algore invented the internet, America has been the superpower in cyberspace. Housewives in the Midwest are infiltrating Jihadi web sites. We have a lot more computer-literate people than they do. We need to get them organized and on the same sheet of music.
We need monitors who find the poison and writers who can refute, rebut, and counteract the poison. It doesn't take a soldier to do this.
There was an idea bandied about after 9/11 which proposed that closed circuit television monitors at strategic dams be monitored by a network of volunteers who signed up to watch the screen for specific time blocks. They accessed the CCTV monitors over the internet, password protected, and did their part, at their convenience, from the comfort of home.
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:45:31 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: af_vet_rr; ALOHA RONNIE; American in Israel; American Soldier; archy; armymarinemom; bad company; ..
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posted on
02/17/2006 2:51:57 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4; GarySpFc
It's only natural. Not only is our own media falling all over itself to help them win it in the name of tolerance and multi-culturalism, they are being spoon fed propaganda by front groups like CAIR:
If there were any truth in advertising they'd have to include the following quote at the bottom of this propaganda poster:
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth." - Omar Ahmad, Co-founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, aka CAIR. President and CEO of Silicon Expert Technologies. A Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Jordan.
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posted on
02/17/2006 3:01:30 PM PST
by
PsyOp
(The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
To: JohnnyZ; Liz; Howlin; ALOHA RONNIE; RonDog; MurryMom
Al GoreGoes along fine with this story...
U.S. Former Vice President Al Gore arrives at the main hall during the 2nd day of Jeddah Economic Forum Sunday Feb. 12, 2006 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
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posted on
02/17/2006 3:01:34 PM PST
by
Libloather
(I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes...)
To: All
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posted on
02/17/2006 3:02:37 PM PST
by
PsyOp
(The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Kinda hard to win the media war with seditious assholes like Algore and President Carter running around like a bunch of whining Frenchmen.
To: PsyOp
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posted on
02/17/2006 3:13:05 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: wretchard
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posted on
02/17/2006 3:15:46 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: I got the rope
Win it or learn to enjoy dhimmitude.
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posted on
02/17/2006 3:18:50 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: Libloather
I wouldn't know. I tuned out years ago.
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posted on
02/17/2006 3:25:36 PM PST
by
dr_who_2
To: GarySpFc
This looks to me like an opportunity for unpaid, volunteer cyber-warriors and pajamahadeen to step up and engage the enemy. Imagine hundreds of thousands of bloggers and lurkers and surfers, on their own time, seeking out poisonous sites (in any language)and reporting them to articulate debunker/refuter counter-poison teams.
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posted on
02/17/2006 3:36:34 PM PST
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Our enemies act on ecstatic revelations from their god. We act on the advice of lawyers.)
To: Libloather
My thought exactly. I think Rumsfeld was subtley suggesting the same.
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posted on
02/17/2006 3:42:03 PM PST
by
My2Cents
("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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