The Voice of the White House

Washington, D.C., November 3, 2006: “Aside from obvious sabotage of the Presidential helicopters, a flood of serious threats against the President, there is also consternation in the Monkey Palace over the fact that the movie, "Death of a President" has opened and is now showing at the E-Street Theater on 11th Street in DC, as well as some 110 other theaters nationwide. Is there a connection with the helicopter business? Who knows? The Oval Office brought utmost pressure to prevent this movie being released in America.

Rumors are flooding the Internet that Bush is about to declare Martial Law and declare himself President for Life. One of my co-workers wrote this up with an eye to keeping attention away from the debacle in Iraq. There we have a sharply escalating casualty list, rampant civil war, mutinous troops and never enough to override the other side, chaos in Afghanistan (not talked about) with the Taliban back in place, opium production increased over the levels before we occupied the country, the U.S blasting schools full of children because someone told them that terrorists were hiding in them (obviously a successful ploy to get us to further blacken our already filthy reputations) Halliburton and other Bush friends suddenly pulling out of what for them was a bonanza of riches (they know what’s coming) and reports of high level officers in the Pentagon burning many files in anticipation of a Democratic take-over of the Congress followed by serious investigations.

And now we learn that a top Evangelical preacher, a friend and advisor of Bush, got caught out when his paid gay lover snitched on him! Drugs and Fudgepacking, all in the name Of Higher Things! Dare someone bring up Gannon in this context?

You should see Bush’s face these days. His complexion is blotched, mouth turned down, eyes squinched shut, snarling at everyone one moment and next declaring in a loud voice that he will sweep on to victory next week. Bush is crazy. He could have turned this election around if only he had promised to do something positive or speak, however vaguely, about pulling out of Iraq or at least appearing to consider this. Instead, knowing how angry the American public is on this subject, he sticks his furry tongue out and screeches like a drunken whore about not leaving  Iraq (or Afghanistan) during his term.

Both Cheney and Rumsfeld are universally despised by everyone but Bush will never, ever fire them. Again, the tongue stuck out, fingers in ears, feet stamping on the floor.

He puts on a half-hearted act while out on the pathetic hustings these days but in truth, a stay at St. Elizabeth’s Clown House here would do him wonders. Well, Bush and his crime partners ran up a bill we will be paying for years. Cheney will die of a heart attack while Bush is living out of the country on all the loot he dragged in. Bush’s presidential pockets are just as deep and just as stuffed with illicit cash as are Cheney’s.”

The Green Zone Follies

Baghdad, 1 Nov  06: “The Blessed Lincoln Group of thieving idiots are over here, at least some of them are, concocting the weirdest propaganda you ever saw. This place is a shambles, death rates shooting towards Venus, all of our ammunition cooked off at Falcon, rumors that no one here will be sent home until 2008, injuries (many of the self-inflicted) soaring, nothing operative any more, fears on the part of the average GI that Bush’s plan to “finally crush the Resistance” will get them killed or maimed for life. And the boobs from the Pentagon’s Propaganda Ministry think they can fix this with clever little planted stories? We ought to make them and Bush go out on daily patrols and maybe the Resistance will solve all our problems for us.  The Pentagon is a little afraid to rein in the death tolls because too many people are aware of them and they have their future careers to think about. After Bush is nothing but a wet dream gone bad, they have to consider the rest of their lives. Torturing and killing unarmed civilians is OK with them but only so long as we’re winning. Pretty soon, it will be finger-pointing in front of Congress. “

Pentagon memo reveals launch of new PR war

October. 30, 2006
by  Lolita C. Baldor
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is buttressing its public relations staff and starting an operation akin to a political campaign war room as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld faces intensifying criticism over the Iraq war.

In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, Dorrance Smith, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said new teams of people will "develop messages" for the 24-hour news cycle and "correct the record."

The memo describes an operation modeled after a political campaign — such as that made famous by Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential race — calling for a "Rapid Response" section for quickly answering opponents' assertions.

Another branch would coordinate "surrogates." In political campaigns, surrogates are usually high-level politicians or key interest groups who speak or travel on behalf of a candidate or an issue.

The plan would focus more resources on so-called new media, such as the Internet and Weblogs. It would also include new workers to book civilian and military guests on television and radio shows.

Pentagon press secretary Eric Ruff did not provide the exact number of people to be hired, or the costs.

Rumsfeld has complained bitterly that the press focuses too much attention on bad news coming out of Iraq, and not enough on progress being made there. As an example, during a trip to Nevada earlier this year, he said he was deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in "manipulating the media" to influence Westerners.

"That's the thing that keeps me up at night," he said during a question-and-answer session at a naval base.

The Pentagon changes, in the works for months, come as voters prepare to go to the polls next week with the war in Iraq as a key issue. Polls suggest that the Republicans could lose their majority in the House, and perhaps the Senate, too.

The new public relations plan began to take concrete shape on Friday as new construction began in the E-Ring, the Pentagon's outermost corridor, to accommodate new hires.

Ruff said today that the reorganization, spearheaded by Smith, will help the department "set the record straight" and provide accurate, timely information.

He denied that the effort was set up to respond to the eroding public support for the war, or that it was aimed at helping in next week's elections. He also said he would not call it an "information operations" program, which generally refers to a propaganda-type campaign.

Ruff said the effort grew out of Rumsfeld's criticism of the department's communications capabilities, which the secretary compared unfavorably to how quickly and effectively terrorists can get their message out.

"If I were grading I would say we probably deserve a 'D' or a 'D-plus' as a country as to how well we're doing in the battle of ideas that's taking place in the world today," Rumsfeld said during a visit to the Army War College in March. "I'm not going to suggest that it's easy, but we have not found the formula as a country" for countering the extremists' message.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4297464.html