VIDEO: The Tie That Binds The ‘Brooks Brothers Riot,’ Bush’s ‘Bullhorn’ Moment, & CENTCOM’s Selling Of The War In Iraq

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Amy Goodman interviews former Marine spokesperson Josh Rushing on Democracy Now about his experiences serving at CENTCOM at the start of the Iraq war. In addition to sending over a Hollywood set designer to build a platform costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, Washington sent political operative Jim Wilkinson, who ran the media operation like a political campaign. According to Rushing, Wilkinson is also “credited with coming up with the line about Gore having invented the Internet,” had his hand in the “Brooks Brothers Riot” during the 2000 Florida election recount, and was the guy handing George W. the bullhorn at Ground Zero on September 14, 2001.

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VIDEO: The Tie That Binds The ‘Brooks Brothers Riot,’ Bush’s ‘Bullhorn’ Moment, & CENTCOM’s Selling Of The War In Iraq

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    GMFORD said on 6/21/2007 @ 6:29am PT: [Permalink]

    I would sure like to see this guy interviewed on Keith O. Low information voters need to be made aware of the mechanics of the 6 1/2 year infomercial we call ‘The Bush Administration’.

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    big dan said on 6/21/2007 @ 6:54am PT: [Permalink]

    Yep! Saw this! Watch Democracy NOW! news EVERYDAY! Instead of ANBCBSNNX! The best news on the planet: DEMOCRACY NOW! TV NEWS!

    On DISH LINK-TV 9410 and DirecTV LINK-TV 375 @ 6pm; DISH 9415 Free Speech TV @ 7pm.

    DirecTV: WHY WON’T YOU CARRY FREE SPEECH TV?????????

    …that’s why I have DISH instead of DirecTV…

    …and cable carries NEITHER channel…

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    big dan said on 6/21/2007 @ 7:07am PT: [Permalink]

    I think we’ve posted here before, that this Jim Wilkinson character (like Thor Hearne) orchestrated a lot of things for Bushco, like bussing in operatives during the 2000 chad counting to make it appear as if citizens were protesting…and the media covered it and ate it up, without disclosing to the viewers that it was orchestrated. And wasn’t this guy in “Weapons of Mass Deception”, that he was setting up the “War Room” for TV, and things like that?

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    big dan said on 6/21/2007 @ 7:09am PT: [Permalink]

    You know, these fuckers ruined our country with FAKE everything, and then they CRY, and say they were “only doing their job”, and they LIE some more about their part in it…WHEN THEY ARE FINALLY EXPOSED!!!!!!!!!

    They say, “We aren’t so bad, everyone’s picking on us”, and they CRY about it!

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    big dan said on 6/21/2007 @ 10:16am PT: [Permalink]

    “””
    Summer 2002: White House Iraq Group assigns Communications Director James R. Wilkinson to prepare a white paper for public release, describing the “grave and gathering danger” of Iraq’s “reconstituted” nuclear weapons program. Wilkinson report claims Iraq “sought uranium oxide, an essential ingredient in the enrichment process, from Africa.”
    “””

    “””
    August: White House Iraq Group founded to coordinate campaign for war with Iraq. Operates out of Cheney’s office, chaired by Karl Rove. Includes Libby, Andrew Card, Mary Matalin, James R. Wilkinson, Nicholas E. Calio and Karen Hughes. Meet twice weekly in White House Situation Room. (May have funneled disinformation provided by Ahmad Chalabi to Judith Miller and others in U.S. press.)
    “””

    http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/4585

    This guy is ALL OVER THE PLACE…part of the WHIG group, too!

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    big dan said on 6/21/2007 @ 10:18am PT: [Permalink]

    There’s a LOT of guys like that! Jack Abramoff is another one who was into a little bit of everything in Bushco…Cheney seems to be involved in everything…Thor Hearne and Gonzales, WOW! Maybe they’ll all have a reunion…IN THE SLAMMER!

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    KestrelBrighteyes said on 6/21/2007 @ 12:37pm PT: [Permalink]

    OFF TOPIC DISCLAIMER!

    McNulty’s testimony is being rerun on CSPAN3 right now.

    And the guy speaking for the Republicans started out by whining about the site the House Judiciary has set up for whistleblowers to contact Congress!

    Got that waaaahmbulance standing by?

    McNulty is giving his opening statement, explaining how employees of the DOJ “check their partisanship at the door”

    Uh huh.

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    the_zapkitty said on 6/21/2007 @ 3:55pm PT: [Permalink]

    Yep, I firmly believe their partisanship is checked at the door…

    … and checked again in the lobby…

    … and cross-referenced against their Federalist Society membership cards before they are allowed on the elevator…

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    Dredd said on 6/22/2007 @ 6:13am PT: [Permalink]

    The essence of the RNC and the regime is deceit:

    And one of the striking features of the modern period is the institutionalization of that process, so that we now have huge industries deceiving the public””and they’re very conscious about it, the public relations industry. Interestingly, this developed in the freest countries””in Britain and the US””roughly around time of WWI, when it was recognized that enough freedom had been won that people could no longer be controlled by force. So modes of deception and manipulation had to be developed in order to keep them under control.

    (Noam Chompsky + Robert Trivers on Deceit, emphasis added).

    It is just that bushies are not very good at it. It is obvious that if their lips are moving they are lying.

    Rove and Cheney are saying that their emails were on an RNC server on a boat on a lake that disappeared overnight:

    “They were very surprised to see that the lake had disappeared,” CONAF regional director Juan Jose Romero told Radio Cooperativa. “We’re not talking about a small lake. It was quite large.” 🙂

    (Yeah … That’s The Ticket, And So’s This).

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