Rummy Resurfaces, Calls for U.S. Propaganda Agency

[Echo In Light]

Rummy Resurfaces, Calls for U.S. Propaganda Agency

Source: Wired Magazine

One of the many things I love about Donald Rumsfeld is that he's totally unrepentant. Back in 2001, the Pentagon under his leadership created the controversial Office of Strategic Influence, which was closed down just a few months later after its existence became public. Rightly or wrongly, the Pentagon was accused of creating a propaganda office. Now, the former defense secretary has a bigger vision: he is advocating a "21st century agency for global communications."

This was one of the major themes in one of Rumsfeld's first post-Pentagon public comments at a conference today on network centric warfare sponsored by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement. According to Rumsfeld, the United States is losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, and the answer to that, in part, is through the creation of this new government agency.

During the the Q&A after the speech, I asked Rumsfeld what this new agency might entail (he was pretty clear it wouldn't be a resurrected U.S. Information Agency, which was merged into State Department in 1999), and why, when there is an abundance of media available in the private sector, the government needs to get involved.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/rummy-wants-pro.html#more

[LeftinOH]

1. We already have Fox News...n/t

[halobeam]

2. He said, "free press is fine, well, it's not fine"... EXCUSE ME? wtf...

He ought to go back to his unacknowledged desk, in his unacknowledged office. (Like the free press is really ALL OVER HIM?) puhlease. If they were, they'd ask why the hell we are paying for his office when he was supposed to be gone in the first place.

He knows we know, and I guess THAT'S part of why the free press is not fine, to him. It must be quite a little pebble in his shoe, that even though people can't do shit about it, they still "know" about it. And thats just a damn nuisance for him.

"Clean up in isle FREE PRESS", right Dumsfeld?
*hole even admits it.

[Echo In Light]

3. Not fine with him, nor "free" ... nor "liberal." Funny thing is they're not even good propagandists

Which unfortunately speaks volumes about the broad demographic that buys it hook, line and stinker.

[Ecumenist]

4. F-U-C-K H-I-M!!

May his words catch in his evil throat and choke his short, little faustian ass. I'd pay money to see that. I bet that the press would cover his well deserved karmic payment in spades.

[driver8]

5. AMEN!! n/t

[gratuitous]

6. The next time Rumsfeld "resurfaces" should be in The Hague

Sitting in the dock at a war crimes and crimes against humanity tribunal. "Goodness!"

[hatrack]

7. Great idea, Rummy! And let's hire Karen Hughes to run it!!!!

:puke: :puke: and :puke: again.

[Ilsa]

8. I wish that whoever found him frozen in a bunker in Germany in 1946

had left him there rather than thaw him out. He's been nothing but trouble for the US.

[L. Coyote]

9. How about a U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Commission? and a Credibility Agency!