The article titled Fauxtography: The media scandal continues by Michelle Malkin is almost a complete farce when you consider the authors motives and that she has conveniently omitted the propaganda granddaddy of them all – The Bush Administration.
Here she writes about the victims of war violence being manipulated by propagandists, their bodies being moved or dressed for photographers camera’s. However she just glosses over the fact there are actual dead bodies, and seems to conclude that war pictures content in general can’t be trusted. Malkin is among many right-wing hacks who have sneered at bloggers suspicions and disgust for the Bush Administration, but somehow has managed to pull her head out of the sand now that bloggers, in all their fair and balanced glory have proved that our enemy also uses the same photographic computer software as our government/media does to twist the truth. Suddenly, Malkin has taken up the bloggers cause to hunt down a few miscaptioned photographs that in her view always favor the enemy, at least in the ones she cherry-picked. Ahhh, all is fair in war.
Nobody does it better than Karl Rove and his presidential publicity team. Even former Kremlin member, spy and current Russian President Vladimir Putin once stated that Bush Administration officials are “ministers of propaganda.” Vladimir should know. Make no mistake, from the landing on the warship with the “Mission Accomplished” banner to the snowflake babies marched out for the embryonic stem cell research veto, most of Bush’s appearances have been rehearsed and staged. “Just making stuff up”. Remember that.
If you want to see images of the war in Iraq untouched by the likes of a Michelle Malkin just click here. Be prepared, they are nauseating.
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