Drumroll please: The Thing that keeps Rumsfeld awake at night

[katinmn]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,210855,00.html

FALLON NAVAL AIR STATION, Nevada — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he is deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in "manipulating the media" to influence Westerners.

"That's the thing that keeps me up at night," he said Monday during a question-and-answer session with about 200 naval aviators and other Navy personnel at this flight training base for Navy and Marine pilots.

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"What bothers me the most is how clever the enemy is," he continued, launching an extensive broadside at Islamic extremist groups which he said are trying to undermine Western support for the war on terror.

"They are actively manipulating the media in this country" by, for example, falsely blaming U.S. troops for civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[liberal N proud]

1. Classic!

Simply blame the enemy for doing what they have been doing for 6+ years?

Simply Classic KKKarl Rove tactics.

[katinmn]

9. Yes, the media won't even cover election theft or our $8 trillion

deficit but terrorists have somehow taken over the airwaves and wire services. :crazy:

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. But the death of 2600 US Troops

doesn't cause him to lose a wink of sleep.

[koopie57]

3. if he comes out today and says

he killed Jon Benet I would not be surprised.

[katinmn]

5. Me either. He is off his rocker!

[Hubert Flottz]

4. FOXNEWS.COM

Funny how they pick up this story FIRST...

[JHB]

6. They're on orders from Moscow

That was a good enough claim for 50 years. Stay the course!

[Tyler Durden]

7. Josef Goebbels would be proud.

No, actually he'd be jealous. Rumsfeldt is pulling this off in a supposed "open society" with a "free press." Goebbels had a closed society and an ironclad lock on the media. The shame in this country is that when Rumsfeldt said this, not one reporter threw down his pad and stomped out of the room screaming "BULLSHIT!!" over and over.

[Tyler Durden]

8. Another thing: WHO CARES what keeps Rummy up at night???

Jesus tap-dancing Christ-on-a-crutch!!! Edward R. Murrow isn't spinning in his grave, he's trying to claw his way out so he can strangle that son of a bitch.

[teryang]

10. His obscene profits from the Tamiflu Avian Flu hoax

As a major shareholder of Gilead sciences, he is the major beneficiary of US government purchases of Tamiflu and Smallpox vacine. He's a criminal.

[katinmn]

13. The Bird flu scare has flew de coop

It has all but disappeared. They must have run out of story lines.

One of the networks even did a bird flu scare drama.

Rummy made $5 million off Tamilu sales in 2005. Lots of sales went to poor countries that should have spent that money curing dying aids patients. Instead they are sitting with stockpiles of Tamilu which has a shelf life of one year.

[Ganja Ninja]

11. Manipulating the media! Heavens to Betsy and sakes alive!

Are they paying someone to plant false stories? Could be.
Have they hired Armstrong Williams? It's been done in the past.
Do they have man-whore in the White House press corp? I guess anythings possible.

[katinmn]

14. !

:spray:

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Jeff Gannon?

[Jacobin]

15. Yeah!. Iraqis should PURCHASE their propaganda like the U.S. does

(looking for link on US paying millions to Iraqi papers to publish pretty lies in the guise of news stories.)

I think Rumsfeld is completely and utterly insane.

[katinmn]

16. Kick for Rumsferatu