{"id":844,"date":"2005-04-01T11:03:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T15:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=844"},"modified":"2005-04-01T11:03:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T15:03:44","slug":"infotainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Infotainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the comments section of this post<\/a> Daniel Trivin refers to it as MIMIC (Military-Industrial-Medical-Infotainment-Complex). Asked to come to this morning<\/a>‘s Washington Journal<\/em> to explain where the money in Iraq is going, Heritage Foundation<\/a>‘s James Carafano brushed off his inquiry into rewards reaped<\/a> by the alleged Military-Industrial-Complex<\/a> by telling Brian Lamb it barely exists, hardly drives U.S. policy, and called defence spending<\/a> a miniscule portion of the GDP. Considering he’s the Senior Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security at Heritage and his Tad Hamilton demeanour (i.e. smiling so widely it hurts) his contribution to the topic was the epitomy of Infotainment.<\/p>\n

If asking a fellow of a think tank created by powerfull conservatives<\/a> for an unbiased update of Iraq policy and possible corruption in a conservative administration seems one-sided it is no less obviously so than the growing list of those passed over for interview<\/a> by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilites of the United States Regarding WMD<\/a> addressed by Lamb’s final guest and commission member, Patricia Wald, who added Scott Ritter to it.<\/p>\n

But the shrill absurdity of the DLC’s fulminating campaign to force its dithering acolytes to kneel before George’s throne and kiss his ring trumps it all. <\/p>\n

“If George W. Bush were to discover a cure for cancer, his critics would denounce him for having done it unilaterally, without adequate consultation, with a crude disregard for the sensibilities of others.”<\/p>\n

— Martin Peretz<\/a><\/p>\n

If Peretz were to discover a cure for hyperbole, his neoliberal hackery would be completely irrelevant instead of a mild curiousity. Marty calls an “unprecedented success” a number of “thrilling” accomplishments that have yet to materialise beyond imagining including significant dismantling of Saudi Arabia’s support and spreading of Wahhabism and real reform of Egypt’s political system that goes beyond window dressing. He states that Syria was behind the assassination of Hariri but provides neither proof nor offers informed opinion why Assad would commit political suicide during a time he was in serious negotiations to pull troops out of Lebanon. His contention that Bush II’s handling of Israeli-Palestinian issues has been dramatically different than Bush I’s or Clinton’s was belied just this week on Democracy NOW<\/a> by Flynt Leverett “who served as President Bush’s senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council from March 2002 to March 2003” and was on the show to discuss his article “Don’t Rush on the Road to Damascus<\/em><\/a>” which appeared in the NYT<\/em>‘s, March 2, 2005. He resigned his position because he felt the administration did not take his work and the road map seriously.<\/p>\n

That Peretz & Co. not only hash this out publically but are turning up the volume shows how far removed they are from recognising what keeps the GOP’s engine humming despite its egregious actions. The great surprise would be C-Span replacing these lunatics on its perch reserved for the opposition and give it to those who deserve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the comments section of this post Daniel Trivin refers to it as MIMIC (Military-Industrial-Medical-Infotainment-Complex). Asked to come to this morning‘s Washington Journal to explain where the money in Iraq is going, Heritage Foundation‘s James Carafano brushed off his inquiry … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-dC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}