After sleeping on Wretchard’s questions, I decided to post…
I see a continuous thread of concerted psy-Ops running right through American and European media organizations’ products with one determinable thrust beginning on November 11 2000.
The gist of my comment is, many media outlets have been determined to convince Americans and the world that our democracy is, as Obama recently described it, and “improbable experiment in Democracy” that has gone awry. Once this meme was established, the “Divided Nation” meme followed directly on its heels. Later, pre-9/11 campaigns focused on undermining the “Ownership Society,” America’s most threatening affront to centralized governmental-ist dogma, the best example being the medias’ amplification of the “Housing Crisis” (which, in reality, represented a paltry percentage of all mortgages, and was legislated by urban Democratic politicians).
As soon as Operation Iraqi Freedom began, a cascade of print and television media reports began – all focused on sapping our will to forbear in the operation, including, but not limited to, “Abu Ghraib,” “American Gulag,” “Haditha,” and, of course, “Bush Lied.”
Other anti-American campaigns appeared in lulls in the Iraq-focused campaigns, too. To name a few: an Idaho congressman’s foot-tapping in a men’s restroom was amplified and repeated ad nauseum to effect turn-out for Republicans in an election, the “consensus” on “Global Warming” and the skewed debate in the UN over the Kyoto Accords, numerous media-hyped “conferences” convened by the UN on ‘-isms” like racism, and, of course, the media-mediated moratorium on all development of additional, domestic sources of petroleum left us and our allies supine and vulnerable to Russia’s moves to control oil-flows internationally.
To keep this short, I’m convinced that, “Globalist” American Democrats and Left-sympathetic media around the world have been marinading our nation in nagging, low-grade psy-Ops products, sometimes intentionally, sometimes not, with the ultimate outcome being that in 2008 we are paralyzed in the face of real aggression against an ally.
My larger point is, the elements of cyber- and info-war evident in the Georgian conflict are contiguous with these earlier media campaigns, and devoted American media should take a hard look at their products to see where they may have been suckered into betraying their nation.
-Steve
