JewellElizabeth

Hmmmm, a lefty PR firm VS Fox News. I wonder which does more damage. Not to mention the several "think tanks" right wingers have at their disposal - and didn't the Bush administration hire a PR firm in 2000 to push out false info about Iraq? ***************** Yes, the information about PR firms deliberately planting false stories for the Bush Administration is factual. In fact, the year 2000 was not the first year when U.S. citizens were subjected to false information campaigns concocted by PR groups. If you do a Google search on "Rendon Group," you'll find reams of information about the obviously successful disinformation campaigns which this company created for the Bush Administration. By the way, none of this information is hidden, nor is it merely available on "loony conspiracy" websites. If you ever watch the section of CNN's Situation Room, where Blitzer interviews a Democrat like Paul Begala and a Republican spokesperson named Torrie Clarke....Ms. Clarke was a member of the staff at Hill and Knowlton during the period of time when Saddam went into Kuwait. Hill and Knowlton, by the way, have offices here in Ottawa and they lobby our government on behalf of big business. Anyway, Ms. Clarke and the Hill and Knowlton staff were behind the appearance of a very attractive young Kuwaiti woman before a Senate hearing into the circumstances in Kuwait when the Iraqi army invaded. She recounted a horrific story of Iraqi soldiers invading a hospital where she said she worked. She described the Iraqi soldiers as tearing newborn babies out of their incubators and throwing the infants to the ground, leaving them there to die. Her presentation was very emotional and when she was through, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. It turned out when investgated, that the story was utterly false, that this young woman had not been in Kuwait during the invasion. She was safely ensconced at home in her Daddy's residence in Washington. Her father, by the way, was the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S, or the U.N. As they say, "Quelle surprise!" Also, Torrie Clark was a PR person for the Pentagon in the first year of the current war against Iraq. However, she made such a mess of the Jessica Lynch story that she was fired for her part in that fiasco. If you are going to cite something like this you should at least appear to try and be balanced.