[CitizensTruth] Clinton threatens to obliterate Iran

[Hal Snyder]

The entire "obliterate Iran" incident is appalling. But I think it's  
important to do a little media analysis and not play the game of  
getting fired up over a context-free sound bite.

Video from ABC's Good Morning America:
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=876

Note:

1. Chris Cuomo's question. The exchange was started with ABC (Disney)  
Chris Cuomo asking about a hypothetical situation in which Iran  
attacks Israel with nuclear weapons. Isn't there something repugnant  
about the question? Something wicked this way comes. The interview is  
about war games and posturing. What if the bad guys do so-and-so?  
Naomi Wolf, Step 1: Invoke a terrifying and external enemy.

I think there are enemies to our well-being much closer and more  
threatening than the people of Iran.

2. Robin Roberts, on redirect. She asks Barack Obama for his response  
to Hillary's "very tough talk... she [Hillary] is very forceful, she  
is very exact in what she would do". Roberts could just as easily  
said that Hillary was cavalier, glib, and ready to kill millions of  
innocent civilians for the actions of their rulers. Somehow this all  
seems insane. But then, I'm not a regular viewer of ABC and Good  
Morning America, so I may still have part of my soul intact.

3. Another story to break around the same time is the case of the  
Pentagon Pundits.

Media facilitate Iraq propaganda effort
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3349

the Pentagon recruited over 75 retired generals to act as "message  
force multipliers" in support of the Iraq War, receiving special  
Pentagon briefings and talking points that the analysts would often  
parrot on national television "even when they suspected the  
information was false or inflated."

As any conscious person might deduce, the FAIR alert goes on to point  
out:

Of course, the Pentagon's propaganda plan would have little effect if  
not for the enthusiastic participation of the corporate media.

4. One way to conclude this is to say that come McCain, Clinton, or  
Obama, there will still be plenty of machinery in place to a) deflect  
attention from vast and urgent problems under our very noses and b)  
bring on more war and senseless killing until we say enough.


On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Jay Becker wrote:


> Clinton Threatens to 'Obliterate' Iran

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