[CTRL] Fwd: Cream Don't Rise, Sh*t Floats: You've Seen Fox "News", Now Meet Fox "History"

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-Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: August 29, 2006 10:58:29 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cream Don't Rise, Sh*t Floats: You've Seen Fox "News", Now Meet Fox "History" NOTE: The Weekly Standard is yet another Rupert Murdoch-owned NEOCON propaganda outlet, edited by Zionist neocon Bill Kristol.  "In 1997, [Kristol] co-founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a movement credited in part for some of the foreign policy decisions of the Bush administration -- as evidenced by their 1998 letter to US President Bill Clinton advocating military action in Iraq, to "protect our vital interests in the Gulf". Most recently he has been a vocal supporter of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, stating that the war is "our war too," [and] is advocating a US military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities ... He is also a member of the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute, from which the Bush administration has borrowed over two dozen members to fill various government offices and panels ... "   ------------   Cheney Chooses Chief Propagator of False Iraq-9/11 Link To Be Official Biographer   http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/28/cheney-biographer/ Vice President Cheney — “the man running the country” — is now working on an official biography. But don’t hold out any hope that the biography will offer any revealing insight into “Dick Cheney’s dark, secretive mind-set.” The author of the book, according to U.S. News, will be Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes:   We hear that the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes is hot on the case and plans to publish a bio titled, naturally enough, Cheney as early as next spring. “I’m not a historian,” Hayes fesses up. No, Hayes is not a historian. What are his qualifications? He’s a journalist who has cultivated close ties within the White House and has become the go-to source for insiders seeking to peddle false claims on Iraq. Here are some highlights of Hayes’ record: 1. This January, Cheney was asked by then-Fox News radio host Tony Snow, “Were there links to — between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda?” Cheney answered, “Well, I think Steve Hayes has done an effective job in his article of laying out a lot of those connections.” Hayes wrote an article entitled “Dick Cheney Was Right” about the Vice President’s effort to connect Saddam to 9/11. But even President Bush said most recently that Iraq had “nothing” to do with 9/11. 2. In 2003, Hayes declared “case closed” in an article purporting to show the links between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Cheney recommeneded it to the Rocky Mountain news as the premier source of information on the issue. (”[Y]ou ought to go look is an article that Stephen Hayes did in the Weekly Standard here a few weeks ago…That’s your best source of information.”) Hayes relied on a classified Defense Department memo produced by Douglas Feith. The Defense Department shot down Hayes’ article, stating the Feith memo was “not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.” Each and every one of Hayes’ attempts to link Iraq to 9/11 have been thoroughly discredited, but he continues to push the argument. It’s quite fitting that Cheney chose him to be his official biographer. ----------------------------------------------- Stephen Hayes, Call Your Editor by Paul Sperry http://www.antiwar.com/sperry/?articleid=9141  A relative no-name before the Iraq war, self-styled investigative journalist Stephen F. Hayes has made quite a career for himself peddling war lies for his neocon publishing boss Bill Kristol.  But now, with the death and autopsy of al-Qaeda strawman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, he's having to live down a real whopper. Hayes, writing with the confidence and certainty of a Gospel author, has maintained that Zarqawi was severely injured by U.S. forces while fighting with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11, whereupon he hobbled all the way to Baghdad for emergency medical treatment. After an "elite" hospital there amputated his leg, Hayes has asserted that Zarqawi was fitted with a prosthetic limb and was allowed to stay and recuperate in Baghdad as a VIP guest of Saddam Hussein's regime for months. This has been his and the administration's Exhibit A evidence of a link between Saddam and Osama bin Laden.  President Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell all cited it in speeches and interviews in the run-up to the war. It was red meat for neocons, and Hayes wolfed it down, even adding highly suspect details and embellishments leaked to him from Doug Feith's bin of secondhand defector rumors and hearsay that even the cavalier Bush officials wouldn't dare touch. Hayes thought details would make the claim sound more credible. Much to his chagrin, they just made it more outlandish. Now, with Zarqawi's corpse on ice, even the Kool-Aid crowd can see the claim is demonstrably – and risibly – untrue. Alleged peg-leg Zarqawi had all his limbs. He had them in 2002 when he was allegedly hospitalized. And he had them last week, even after 500-pound bombs fell on him. Yet the ever-gullible Hayes isn't backing off the fable – or the Kool-Aid.   = www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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