Category: Propaganda

John McCain’s Christmas Card

Touching. Very touching. John McCain says he was “mistreated” by a guard. I’m sickened and shocked, and I cry out for justice. But not for McCain. I want us just once to pay heed to that small voice deep inside us – we must have a collective conscience. We must know this stuff on some level!

John McCain was shot down while bombing civilians and their infrastructure in North Vietnam. He was violating the Geneva Conventions. The North Vietnamese could have hanged him and still have stood two rungs above him on the moral ladder. At least two.

Yet he’s a hero in America, and an example for our kids. God I love this country.

Reversing the Aging Process

Bin Laden then and now

Cognitive dissonance, anyone? Believe it or not, the image on the left above is an older one of Osama bin Laden (from 2004), the one on the right taken from his most recent video.

He’s trimmed and blackened his beard. But it’s an uncanny resemblance, I have to say – same nose and eye line, same dimples. I never thought of him as one given to vanity, but apparently so. He’s gotten markedly younger, or the figure on the right is a stand-in, or the video is much older than we have been told. My bet is on the latter. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is dead and that they are doing a ‘greatest hits’ compilation.

Keep in mind that the U.S. wants this man, dead or alive, but that he’s far more useful alive, which is probably why Bush said in 2002

I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.

Any good propaganda campaign needs a face – whether it is Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein or Manuel Noriega or Slobodan Milosevic – we need a picture in our minds, an object on which to focus our hatred.

For that reason, bin Laden, dead or alive, is alive and well. He’s a good man to have around.