Undulating Ungulate

Technorati’s been going wild with this the last couple of days: revelations of the links between independent military analysts and the Pentagon. Which I guess means someone out there was surprised that they are being lied to.

Some choice quotes, for posterity.

A few expressed regret for participating in what they regarded as an effort to dupe the American public with propaganda dressed as independent military analysis.

“It was them saying, ‘We need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you,’ ” Robert S. Bevelacqua, a retired Green Beret and former Fox News analyst, said.

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Internal Pentagon documents repeatedly refer to the military analysts as “message force multipliers” or “surrogates” who could be counted on to deliver administration “themes and messages” to millions of Americans “in the form of their own opinions.”

Gee.

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