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Obsession: War against the Truth!
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34422 By Colbydog
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Reader submitted blog Published Sept. 15, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.
Category: Politics
Tags: propaganda, journal, sentinel, israel, lies

Sept 14, 2008 should most certainly be heralded as the day the term "Liberal Media" was finally exposed for the fiction from which it was coined.
Yesterday millions of copies of a pro-Israeli propaganda video were distributed in newspapers across all the swing states... including the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal! The Swiftboat-like  501.c3 organization the ClarionFund paid for millions of inserts to be distributed in the Sunday edition of 75 swing State papers in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Nevada. 
Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West is a hate-film touted as a documentary. Produced in Israel by several right-wing, pro-Israeli groups, who are also financial supporters of the McCain Campaign. It played on FOX and CNN television during the run-up to the 2006 elections and is regularly shown at the CIA and Pentagon as "learning tools" for new agents.  The film repeatedly uses false information, graphic images, deceptive quotes and film clips to demonize Muslims and misinform viewers into rethinking history.
By twisting the truth through flashy special effects and select pieces of film footage, this newspaper insert and DVD seeks to radicalize the west against a muslim threat it falsely portrays as being an assault on freedom. It repeatedly plays quotes of a muslim taking control of the white house, shows clips of Nazi Germany and tries to link any and every violent act on earth to some Muslim world-domination Jihad fantasy while the west and Israel are simply poor innocent victims.
This propaganda is the latest and most vile and coercive stunt pulled by the right and its media partners. By reaching out to millions of readers with this ready-to-eat propaganda, they controlled the entire message without anyone being able to respond, review or refute the lies, deception and misinformation.  Some newspapers who've already been inundated by angry subscribers have responded that the inclusion of paid advertisements with samples are not new.  
But as one subscriber noted, "A box of cereal? Toothpaste? Does a box of cereal or a tube of toothpaste encourage me to look with hatred and suspicion on my law abiding neighbors who have a different religion than mine? Does cereal and toothpaste lead to pogroms, religious harassment, fear and intimidation? The trailer for this video is about hate, pure and simple, and shows the video has only one goal -- to instill fear and hatred of neighbor against neighbor."
Touting ridiculous "awards" from fabricated right-wing film festivals like the Liberty Film Festival, this slick piece of Israeli propaganda stops at nothing to use the very techniques its sites as the "ways radical Islam and Nazi Germany" fooled their countrymen.  It even goes so far as to co-opt several historic quotes by people who spoke against the very schemes and techniques THEY are using... to rally support.
People, you should be outraged. This is a blatant propaganda piece sponsored by a foreign nation, used to coerce the voters of the US to throw another Presidential election. Please write or call your local or national paper and express your outrage for their standards. If this is what for-profit papers do,  it will become the future of propaganda. Rich elitists, Multinational Corporations or Foreign Nations can fabricate lies and deception with flashy packaging and full motion video to reach millions of voters. 
People, if we tolerate this violation of our trust, we've truly lost our democracy.



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