Textbook Example of Disinformation: Abramoff-Bush photo(s)

[cointelpro]

Anyone who's visited Rense.com in the past couple of days has seen the splash photos of Bush-Abramoff together. Link: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://rense.com/1.imagesH/bushabramoff.jpg">rense.com/1.imagesH/bushabramoff.jpg</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>Now, Time Magazine has the bombshell story: The First Photo of Abramoff & Bush. Link: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1158908,00.html">www.time.com/time/nation/...08,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>Turns out, the "bombshell photo" Time chooses to print shows only Abramoff, circled in red, in the background of a room 25 feet away from Bush.<br><br><br>Anyone who looks at the Rense photos sees Bush shaking Abramoff's hand.<br><br><br>Why would Time Magazine choose to alter the real story?<br><br><br>A textbook example of disinformation: Close to the truth, but not the real truth. Not enough information to damage, just enough information to provide political excuses: "See? The Time photo wasn't so bad." <p></p><i></i>

[Darklo]

Absolutley right, appreciate the posting, this is textbook disinfo. In fact its almost too good.<br><br>How can they get away with printing this bollocks? Anyone with a PC and google will find the pictures at Rense, do these people take us for complete morons? <p></p><i></i>

[sunny]

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>do these people take us for complete morons?</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br>YES<br><br>That said, if the tree doesn't fall in the mainstream forest, it hasn't made a sound. <p></p><i></i>

[Avalon]

"Why would Time Magazine choose to alter the real story?"<br><br>Time has news-stand copies to sell later on this week. One teaser photo might entice people to pick up the hard copy version. If they are not in that, perhaps speculation might be in order at that point. but I think you are jumping the gun.<br><br>Time also has legal issues to contend with -- how do you know that Time has gotten permission to reprint other photos? There are layers of copyright lawyers that have to be gone through for them to print a picture. Unlike the situation with Rense, where he has often ripped off mainstream news articles with impunity, with no evidence that he has permission to reprint them.<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[robertdreed]

That's one of the reasons I like this place- people can post their suspicions about things, and as the stories develop, they either get confirmed or refuted. Or, on occasion, they simply hang in there, unresolved... <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 2/12/06 11:38 pm<br></i>

[Darklo]

A fair point, but this was the magazine that made the war criminal Bush its man of the year.<br><br>Thats not proof I know, but let me live in my little world.<br><br>A world where all mainstream media are either rubbish or owned by the corp/mil/ind/complex, and as a matter of course should be considered guilty of disinfo and propaganda until proven otherwise. <p></p><i></i>

[wintler]

Nice, cointelpro, its good to point out such golden examples. I know i'll be using your observation with the next still-true-believer that crosses my path. <br><br>The whole Abramoff affair, & DeLay, get a few lines every three months in the media Down Under, incidentally. But then do y'all know that the Australian Wheat Board was the biggest single briber (Au$290mil) of Saddams 'regime' under oil for food scams? Thats from 1999 (poss. 97) right up to the start of the most recent invasion in 2003. Guess what, nobody in the government knew nothing (google AWB, Cole Inquiry, if curious).<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

rense.com just admitted today that the photos were not of Abramoff 'n' the Resident, but of not-well-known congressman Rick Renzi and Bushy-tail. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :o --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/embarassed.gif ALT=":o"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br>....Floydinator<br> <p></p><i></i>