Lessons in NewsSpeak

By: Loudoun County Dem
Published On: 5/8/2006 9:29:46 AM

The Bush administration has been sending out instructions on how to talk up Iraq to "about 60 undersecretaries, assistant secretaries and other political appointees"

Career appointees at the Department of Agriculture were stunned last week to receive e-mailed instructions that include Bush administration "talking points" -- saying things such as "President Bush has a clear strategy for victory in Iraq" -- in every speech they give for the department.

"The President has requested that all members of his cabinet and sub-cabinet incorporate message points on the Global War on Terror into speeches, including specific examples of what each agency is doing to aid the reconstruction of Iraq," the May 2 e-mail from USDA speechwriter Heather Vaughn began.

Read the story here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050700898_pf.html

Unbelievable...

btw... The examples of how to segue into Iraq are funny...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/KamenDocs.pdf

Comments



Facts are liberal propaganda... n/t (Josh - 5/8/2006 9:33:51 AM)


Reminds me of fascist and communist regimes... (Info_Tech_Guy - 5/8/2006 10:30:31 AM)
This is the sort of propaganda effort that I closely associate with non-democratic regimes... When the USDA is dragged into the "war on terror", we should all know that we're being conned...