A question - Whatever happened to the Truth Squad?

[Bob3]

You remember - 4 or 5 right wing radio yahoos who were going to Iraq to tell us how good things were over there. The project was announced with great fanfare back in early July but since then nothing.
Anybody know what happened?

[XanaDUer]

1. They have Paul Krugman "on the run."

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Glhm9twcZKAJ:www.nationalreview.com/nrof_luskin/truthsquad050703.asp+%22the+truth+squad%22+iraq&hl=en

[bryant69]

4. Two diferent truth squads though, I think.

One going after Krugman the other trying to prove that Iraq is doing great?

I could be wrong though.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[XanaDUer]

5. Lol!

Okay. I had never heard of the Truth Squad before.

[Bob3]

7. The Iraq is doing great is the one I'm asking about

It was just such a stupid idea that I suspect that it has been left to die quietly. It's hard to make a case that things are great in Iraq when things are blowing up all the time.

[Swamp Rat]

10. This idiot seems proud to be a stalker!

:wtf:

Thank you for linking a cached Google article. I HATE going to fascist websites! :puke:

[annabanana]

2. maybe they decided that Iraq was not something that

they could put lipstick on, after they went there...

[Swamp Rat]

3. delete

[meegbear]

8. Huh?

Stalker? Cached Google article? Please advise.

[Swamp Rat]

9. I meant to respond to post #1

OK, time for a nap. :boring:

[leftchick]

6. Here is an update on the "Lie Tour"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200508030003

San Francisco talk radio host Melanie Morgan falsely suggested on the August 1 edition of MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews that the Iraqi armed forces have reached 60 percent "readiness." In fact, while Iraqi forces have reached 60 percent of their recruiting goals, a recent Pentagon brief contradicts Morgan's claim of readiness. The brief indicates that only a small fraction of current Iraqi units are capable of fighting insurgents without coalition support.

Morgan recently traveled to Iraq with other conservative radio hosts as part of the " 'Voices of Soldiers' Truth Tour" that, in Morgan's words, was intended to "get the story straight from them without the filter of the liberal media." The tour was organized by Move America Forward (MAF), a conservative activist group co-chaired by Morgan, and the RighTalk Radio Network. Other "Truth Tour" reporters included MAF co-chairman Howard Kaloogian -- a former Republican state assemblyman and U.S. Senate candidate from California -- and Sacramento radio host Mark Williams. A FoxNews.com article about the "Truth Tour" quoted Williams as saying, "We are Americans first and journalists second, as opposed to the crop of 'pinkos' that tell us on the news every night that America is going to hell in a handbasket."

... A very interesting article here on the pentagon involvement in the tour and a dirty tricks PR firm...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GH03Ak01.html