more deceit / illegal covert propaganda
a story in the los angeles times tells how, with great fanfare, the bush administration unveiled thirty-second television adverts and a two-page flier that would be mailed to 41 million seniors and disabled people, touting the newly enacted medicare prescription drug benefit. missing from the publicity was any mention of «video news releases,» which feature «interviews» with government officials and voice-overs by production company employees posing as washington reporters, for use in local tv news shows.this past monday, less than a week after it concluded that the administration's medicare commercials and fliers were technically legal but contained "notable omissions and errors," the general accounting office said it would conduct another investigation to determine whether the video news releases constituted illegal «covert propaganda». and it gets worse...
half of this country still intends to vote for bush? again i say, shame on you!
