The Nazis in Dubya's closet

[wyldwolf]

Christiane Amanpour, CNN's fleet-footed foreign correspondent, committed the unthinkable a few weeks ago. She said what any observant person already knows: "Television and perhaps to an extent, my station, was intimidated by the administration and its foot soldiers at Fox News. And it did, in fact, put a climate of fear and self-censorship, in my view, in terms of the kind of broadcast work we did."

The media -- not only TV but the daily press, too -- did indeed cower and cringe before the Bushies and the Fox stormtroopers.

Fox News adopted a strategy right from the playbook of Hitler aide Hermann Goering, who said during the Nuremberg trials, "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." A Fox spokesman responded to Amanpour with an adaptation of the Reichsmarshall's thoughts: "It's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda."

We'll come back to Nazis in a minute...

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/fishwrapper.html

[LittleApple81]

1. Thanks for the link. Nice read n/t

[leftchick]

2. Christiane is a treasure...

I saw her on CNN/International while in Europe recently. She had a great show pertaining to journalism and interviewed the guy from ABC news that smuggled the uranium into the US aboard an airliner. She also interviewd Walter Cronkite. What a contrast to the cnn dreck we have here in the US.