“Liberal” Pro-war Propagandists
By Mona
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As has been observed by me and many others for years now, what it is to be “liberal” v. “conservative” no longer means what those designations did during the 90s, when social issues predominated, nor even during the Cold War era. Folks who are not hostile toward gays and who support abortion up to the point of birth, idolize George Bush. Similarly, there are social conservatives who cannot abide him.
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So, when Michael O’Hanlon and Ken Pollack of the Brookings Institution wrote an Op-Ed recently in the WSJ New York Times “reporting” on their recent trip to Iraq, and how much glorious success they see in the Surge, right-wingers had orgasms, shrieking:”This is important for who is saying it! They’re liberals!” The two made a tour of all the usual “news” programs, and the right-o-sphere went into a frenzy of happy happy. Because supposedly O’Hanlon and Pollack had heretofore been “anti-war Bush critics.”
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Go read Glenn Greenwald’s post today (brief ad click through, and post lengthy of necessity), in which he discusses and quotes from an interview O’Hanlon gave him, and decimates the gentleman. Learn that the duo’s whole Iraq trip was stage-managed by the DoD. See what utter propaganda it has been to claim the “liberal” Brookings Institution — including O’Hanlon and Pollack — is some opponent of neoconservative war-mongering. And in particular, note who pays the fellas’ salaries, and that he is an unabashed, Israel-centric, neoconservative warmonger.
Comment by Glaivester —
August 12, 2007 @ 11:12 pm
It’s Kenneth Joseph all over again.