Controlling the News March 22 - December 31, 2003

(January 2, 2004) We are having a problem with, for want of a better phrase, can be called the “Jewish Issue.” There is growing, and serious, criticism of the so-called NeoCons that surround Bush. All of them are openly Jewish and all are 100% in support of Israel. This is not a well-kept secret and knowledge of it is causing a strong swell of anti-Semitism all over the country. For obvious reasons, this is a completely prohibited area of inquiry, no matter how legitimate, and we are obviously going to have to ignore the flood of death threats, nasty emails and so on. A growing segment of the general population believes that Jews own all the media. It would be counterproductive in the highest degree to state that Jews do not own all the media. It is true that they exercise a profound influence in this arena but their actual influence is with the advertising medium.

The problem here, as we see it, is that if the lid is kept on this subject, it will eventually blow up, providing some kind of public diversion can’t be found to distract the public. In truth, the NeoCons are their own worst enemies. Unfortunately, they are being seen as America’s worst enemies at the same time and, let’s be honest here, they won’t shut up, thus guaranteeing their own self-fulfilling prophesies. In all truth, Bush has really opened a terrible Pandora’s Box of mischief…

(January 9, 2004) …Send a memo to all department heads looking for any and all French-speaking journalists. This does not apply to cameramen. If the Administration’s plans for a military adventure vis a vis the French materialize, we want to be right off the line with coverage…minute our people in Iraq that they must, under no circumstances, permit anyone other than our own employees to make use of our computer systems in place there. We have been virtually ordered under threat of prosecution under “national security” directives to keep irate military personnel from “leaking sensitive and always inaccurate” material. Make sure everyone gets this…

(January 10) …with reference my memo of the 9^th, do not discuss the French business unless and until. The Bush people want an administration change in Paris and we have to be careful not to mention any military assistance from our side. Diplomatic and economic pressure will be tried first. The French will cave in just like Brazil will stop its fingerprinting of US citizens. Either that or the World Bank and IMF will put them on the grill. Bush is visiting their president and will give him the word that we will not permit some third world state to dictate to us…they have even been photographing diplomats and CIA commercial cover people!

(January 4, 2004) The Iowa circus goes on its merry way with lots of backbiting, kicking, gouging and spitting. We can count Lieberman out because he is an Orthodox Jew and aside from some of his tribe, he is not going to get main line votes. Braun is black and a women which are two strikes against her, Gebhart will be lucky to take Iowa and dragging his Lesbian daughter out of the closet isn’t going to do him any good in Dubuque. Kerry is making noises but his slaughter of unarmed women and children in Viet Nam plus the fact that he is Jewish won’t help him either. Ditto for Clark on the racial issue plus he changes his mind depending on how the wind is blowing. That leaves Dean and he is downright mean, especially to the press which he will be punished for in due time. Dick Cheney has a very bad heart. Recently had a check up and they will not release the results. Insider info gives him a 50-50 chance of buying the farm (not in Iowa) before the election. It’s common knowledge that Cheney is running the government. We have been requested not, repeat not, to ask the President unexpected questions at press conferences. He got nailed in Mexico by a fellow from Reuters who asked him a question that Bush simply had no idea how to answer. His mumblings and twitchings on camera were painful to watch…

(January 14, 2004) There are two major and very serious problems looming on the horizon for us. The first is the coming vote in November and the strong probability that there will be a reprise of the Florida mess. Our sources, Beltway rumor and other indicators, are very clear that vote stealing via badly flawed “electronic voting” is in train now. This has the fingerprints of Rove all over it but there is always plausible deniability, as in the Wilson “leak” case. The NYT has been pounding on this and it is also a favorite theme of anti-Bush internet sites. If the White House rams this national “Electronic Voting” program through, it could lead to another stolen election and that could lead to revolt inside both the Congress and the public…We have also learned that it is being “suggested” that all GI absentee votes be “directed” towards a Bush election. Considering the anger of the troops at this point, these absentee ballots are anticipated to be strongly anti-Bush. “Electronic Voting” is being thought of as a “fast and convenient” method of allowing “our stalwart heroes” a “quick method of reelecting their Commander in Chief.” Read Thomas Carlyle on the origins of the French Revolution or even study our own…We have been firmly requested to conduct interviews of returning troops. The theme will be satisfaction on job well done. As the temper of the returning troops is highly uncertain, it has been suggested that we use actors in uniform. This has happened before…the Pentagon was writing dozens of praiseful letters allegedly from troops in Iraq to “their” local papers. The problem is that all of them were written by the same Pentagon PR official and sounded like it. 2004 might be an interesting year…Now the second major problem is illegal immigration which has reached epic proportions. It is officially estimated that there are 12 million illegal immigrants, mostly Mexican, now in America. Many are on welfare and many are taking jobs away from the lower level Americans, especially teenagers. No politician, and certainly no one from any level of the media, is going to tackle this one. I personally predict this will be the fuse that will ignite the public powder keg, if not this year, probably the next. Everyone from the President on down is keeping their mouths shut on this demographic disaster…

(January 23, 2004) It looks like the O’Neill book has legs after all. Threats to prosecute because of the use of confidential or secret documents have died away. Coming up now is Bush’s dismal military record. If Kerry gets the Democratic nomination, the combat issue will certainly  come up. The true story about Bush’s alleged AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard is fairly simple. He flunked his drug tests and no way they wanted him to fly expensive aircraft into downtown Houston. He refused to take any drug tests and just walked off the job. With Dad’s connections, that got him into the Guard and safely away from ‘Nam, it was not likely he would get gigged for his vanishing act so he was safe…but now copies of medical reports stating our Prez had “serious drug and alcohol” problems have surfaced. Most were destroyed on Rove’s orders after Bush was a serious contender but some were stashed. Of course we can’t air these or we would lose our license but this is no secret in certain circles. Bush does not want to extend the mandate of the 9/11 commission but he may have to. They are all afraid of what most of us know is clear knowledge of the attack and the deliberate failure to do anything about it. Their arrogance is unbelievable….

(February 12, 2004) Much ado about the actual casualty figures from Iraq. Pentagon says only two to three thousand injured but the actual figure is now over 10,000! Also, growing rumors that the dead are way underreported. This theory is supported by a Presidential order prohibiting any photographs to be taken at Dover AFB where the remains of dead GIs are flown in. An Air Force person called one of our reporters with the news that there have been a lot more body bags being unloaded than the press reports and that security at Dover is “very, very high” and that the personnel there are constantly warned against talking about the subject under dire threats of prosecution for violation of “national security.” …

(March 12, 2004) We are being officially urged to portray the terrorist bombings in Madrid as the product of Basque separatists. The Spanish government has beseeched the DoS and the White House not to portray the perps as Arabs because of the upcoming elections. The White House does not want to lose Spanish support, not because of the meager 1,500 troops Spain has shipped to Iraq but because if the present regime in Spain falls, a withdrawal by a new government is almost certain and Bush would get a terrible black eye…not that he hasn’t been getting plenty lately. Carey is wreaking havoc on the stomachs of RNC and White House staffers. First, these folks believed they had so much money they could dictate the course of the television ad campaigns. They had hundreds of millions raised from friends of the administration and felt too secure in their power…. We sell ads to whomever pays the freight, don’t forget that. We have been pressured to deny ads to the Democrats but that would be economic suicide. If Bush loses and we cast out lot with his people, the other side would have their revenge on all of us. The middle of the fence is always the safest…unless a Bush victory was a certainty…which it is certainly not.

(March 24, 2004) Clarke has kicked over the hornet’s nest and the administration has dragged out its hit teams to trash Clarke. It is pathetic to watch White House staffers making identical statements to the media, word for word.  Clarke has produced a book that will cause very serious trouble to the Bushites and they will spare no effort to trash it and its author. Look for some ‘stunning new revelation’ to emerge very soon (two or three weeks or until it can be fabricated) that will distract the public, and the media, from this dangerous topic. The ongoing censorship by the Pentagon of the death lists in Iraq is being dished by foreign media. It may not be in the New York Times but it is in the Guardian and we learn that more and more Americans are turning to foreign media news sites for whatever passes for the truth these days. …Oil prices are skyrocketing due to Arab interdiction of oil production and look for this economic boycotting of the US to spread. A terrible specter for the Bush people would be $5 per gallon prices to emerge before the November elections. Now that the CIA has lost its bid to topple Chavez, they are turning their completely unqualified attentions to Brunei to guarantee the Sultan sticks to the party line. The Company is highly pissed off at the Japs for their oil deals with Iran. When the Bush White House issues an order, it is to be obeyed!

(April 1, 2004) It seems that we have reached the watershed. This relates to the relationship between us (our organization in specific) and the Administration (that is the White House).  Serious questions about the stolen election (obvious fraud) but a general agreement to try to live with the situation. 9-11 and a strong, unqualified support of the President. He made a strong case for being a serious leader and we all followed him. No contrast between Bush and Guililani at all although it was a farce if you think about it. Then the Iraq business. Some questions: Is this really necessary? Is Daddy behind this? No, we did not question our Protector and so we went to war but voices were warning us. We did not listen and gave him all the coverage he wanted. Another brief and successful Gulf War. All Power to the Wartime President! Then the doubts. Stories about “substance abuse” and worse stories about who knew what and when about 9-11. Emergence of the fact that there were no WMDs and finally, that Bush lied about everything all the time and was really a very stupid person. At least a thousand dead (but not admitted) and over ten thousand badly wounded (but never talked about.) Questions about his fanatical religious beliefs; questions about the Israel-supporting neo cons. Questions about the real control exercised by Cheney (who makes a good appearance but is as crazy as a loon) and on and on. A war we cannot ever win;  mounting casualties; increasing resistance at home; ugly revelations of moronic and ideological incompetence at the highest level. The gross and very dangerous incompetency of the President now becoming more and more revealed. The frenzy on the part of Rove and other nuts to stay in office. Obvious attempts to establish a theocracy (“faith based ideals”) in America and to establish a religious police state backed by a rabble of raving nuts from the Religious Right. Bush has so fucked up the economy that even if some intelligent person with complete control tried to straighten it out this very moment, it would take years. Stories that Bush is loading us up with so much internal debt that all the welfare programs like Social Security, SSI and others will have to be scrapped for lack of money. The Bush Administration wants, no, demands, that we support them. We cannot. He will fall and we must not fall with him. He wants to replace the Constitution with the Ten Commandments! In the end, we will be rid of him and all of his people but the damage they have done will take years to repair. Bush wants to put Christ in the White House and he will only turn the public against his Pentecostal friends who now control the Republican Party.  The economy is totally fucked and the only thing the media can do is to report on it. The average American is so goddam stupid that many of them believe even the crudest of official lies so we wonder if anyone out there is actually reading, and watching, any kind of objective news. It’s not God Bless America these days but God Save America!

Note: The following material is from a reporter with access to the White House and Presidential press briefings. Some of this material has surfaced before but only in small segments. If any of this is true and not the product of an unhappy person, we are all in serious trouble. Ed.

"In the current White House, attendance at daily Christian Evangelical prayer meetings is mandatory."

"Vice President Cheney is the de facto President of the United States. When he arrives at the White House for one of his "briefings" of the President, all employees are cleared from the West Wing and especially from the Presidential office suites. Cheney arrives in an escorted armored limousine surrounded by his own personal, heavily armed bodyguard and is always shown directly into the President's office. It is reliably reported by [redacted] that Bush has a thick pad of lined, yellow note paper on his desk, placed there by [redacted] just before the Vice President arrives."

"After Cheney's departure, the notes taken by the President are transcribed by [redacted] and prepared as talking points for the President..."

"At some time in the past, according to both [redacted] and [redacted] the President suffered what one of his aides called "a very minor seizure" and as a result of this, the President has a very difficult time following any unscripted conversations. For this reason, his staff carefully and aggressively protect the President from "unexpected" questions that he is not capable of answering."

"The President takes oral medication at least twice a day according to [redacted] because of an unspecified "indisposition' and this subject is strictly off limits for any casual staff conversation."

"At one point during a staff conference, the President stood up and began to speak in an unknown language. Mr. Rove was able to stop the President and get him to resume his seat. It was reported by [redacted] that for a period of time (about fifteen minutes) after this incident, the President appeared to be 'somewhat confused and very inarticulate.'"

"White House staff members report that they rarely see the President during work hours and that when they do, he is generally accompanied by Mr. Rove and almost never either looks at or speaks to members of the staff. He does not appear to recognize many of the staff members and almost all contact with these individuals are carried out by his close aides, especially by Mr. Rove."

“Bush hold as few meetings with the public, including the press, as possible. We get reams of official papers informing us of this or that new directive. Those of us who have an inside track with the staff are taken to dinner and given the questions to ask Bush. These are questions he has been thoroughly briefed on and has memorized the answers for. Anyone who persists in pushing the envelope gets a rocket from the Rove people and does not get invited back.”

“Most of the staff are young, dedicated, almost fanatical, and very, very Christian. The Ten Commandments are in each and every office with nice pictures of Jesus accompanying them. I have chatted up a few of these bright-faced kids and find out that they Love Jesus, Hate Gays, Abortionists, Moslems, Blacks, Catholics, some Jews, all Democrats, Liberals, Hindus, Chinese, Frenchmen, Germans, and now, Spaniards.”