Posted on 08/16/2010 10:35:22 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, will release a report today that claims that the Obama administration has created propaganda using federal funds to promote the agenda of Barack Obama and the Democrats. The charges would violate laws intended to separate politics from governance, which if substantiated would create a big problem for President Obama — assuming Congress wants to take this up as an issue. The report’s summary lays out the charges clearly:
Since the beginning of the Obama Administration on January 20, 2009, ordinary Americans have financed and been exposed to an unprecedented number of public relations and propaganda efforts. Federal spending for public relations contracts rose to historically-high levels during the Bush Administration. Under one-party rule in 2009, the White House used the machinery of the Obama campaign to tout the President’s agenda through inappropriate and sometimes unlawful public relations and propaganda initiatives. Congress buoyed the Administration’s propaganda efforts by increasing federal spending on public relations for the first time since 2005.
The Obama Administration frequently used federal resources to promote the President’s agenda. In many cases, the Administration relied on the reach and resources of federal agencies and their personnel to promote certain of the President’s favorite programs. The White House also leveraged ties to the arts and entertainment community to embed propaganda in the content of television programming and artwork. These propaganda efforts violated appropriations riders and federal law prohibiting the use of appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda purposes.
The White House also used its inherent visibility advantages to multiply the effectiveness of websites containing misleading and controversial information. The White House used its resources to push visitors to websites that urge grassroots activism based on false and misleading information.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
It’s about time someone called them out on this BS. Using OUR tax dollars to promote an agenda that only 1/4 of the US population wants, is absolutely a crime and abuse of power.
That is right! It is about time!!!!!
Tch tch! Another politically motivated Republican attack, as I’m sure the media will tell us (if they say anything at all).
New Zealand’s NIWA sued over climate data adjustments
NIWA is .... The country’s state-owned weather and atmospheric research body and is being taken to court in a challenge over the accuracy of its data used to calculate global warming.
How about using our tax dollars to send the imam around the world to promote the mosque at Ground Zero. Has the aclu weighed in on that yet? Crickets, right?
Excellent article of facts. Here is just ONE item of Obama’s propaganda WE paid for! THIS ALONE should have Obama impeached and removed from office!
Obama and the DNC spent $700,000 of TAX PAYER money on this!!!
(I originally read the cost was $600,000) So... some where between $600,000 and $700,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH2orEq5KYg
Agreed. I want a trial.
Here is the report. (Bad link in the threads article)
http://hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/issa-propaganda-report.pdf
Well given the success of their efforts I think they should ask for their money back.
This
Obama and the DNC spent $700,000 of TAX PAYER money on promoting ObamaCare that already passed as a bill!!!
(I originally read the cost was $600,000) So... some where between $600,000 and $700,000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH2orEq5KYg
Is on page # 21 of the report
http://hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/issa-propaganda-report.pdf
Issa is licking his chops......I can’t WAIT until he gets the gavel on the House Oversight committee. He will tear the Obama admin a new one.
bttt
Bet he throws a tarp on this report..won't matter.
The TEA is steeping nicely. should be ready early November.
U.S. President Barack Obama walks from the tarp-covered West Wing of the White House in Washington as he departs for a trip to Wisconsin and California August 16, 2010. The covered section of the White House was being power-washed. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
LOL... I was thinking they might have tarped up the West Wing to do some bug bombing...you know, to get rid of all the new flies and rats that have been hanging around since Obama took office!!
LOL...bug Bombing...yes.
Yes and there will be the usual hogwash of the dems crying racism but it won’t work any more. Alinsky’s well used by the democrats radical handbook is OLD and exposed.
They can’t blame Bush, they can’t lie, they can’t whine it is partisan right vs left politics; as the facts are all so obvious to a large percentage of the American people.
Actually... all of the above is what should happen but not in these times.I predict chaos will take place due to an economic melt down no one has ever seen, suspending elections and if any one dares to say anything they will be hushed and the MSM will say THE PRESIDENT is working hard to fix all, all awhile we will be called racists and told to shut up.
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