Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

ratilfar

4-19-2008 6:54 PM

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ratilfar says:

What a surprise. Not!

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4-20-2008 8:49 AM

Kore7

Maybe not surprising anymore, but it's still distressing to see how easily our own media was co-opted.

A few expressed regret for participating in what they regarded as an effort to dupe the American public with propaganda dressed as independent military analysis.

“It was them saying, ‘We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you,’ ” Robert S. Bevelacqua, a retired Green Beret and former Fox News analyst, said.

4-20-2008 4:54 PM