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Controlling the News March 22 - December 31, 2003

(January 2, 2004) We are having a problem with, for want of a better phrase, can be called the “Jewish Issue.” There is growing, and serious, criticism of the so-called NeoCons that surround Bush. All of them are openly Jewish and all are 100% in support of Israel. This is not a well-kept secret and knowledge of it is causing a strong swell of anti-Semitism all over the country. For obvious reasons, this is a completely prohibited area of inquiry, no matter how legitimate, and we are obviously going to have to ignore the flood of death threats, nasty emails and so on. A growing segment of the general population believes that Jews own all the media. It would be counterproductive in the highest degree to state that Jews do not own all the media. It is true that they exercise a profound influence in this arena but their actual influence is with the advertising medium.

The problem here, as we see it, is that if the lid is kept on this subject, it will eventually blow up, providing some kind of public diversion can’t be found to distract the public. In truth, the NeoCons are their own worst enemies. Unfortunately, they are being seen as America’s worst enemies at the same time and, let’s be honest here, they won’t shut up, thus guaranteeing their own self-fulfilling prophesies. In all truth, Bush has really opened a terrible Pandora’s Box of mischief…

(January 9, 2004) …Send a memo to all department heads looking for any and all French-speaking journalists. This does not apply to cameramen. If the Administration’s plans for a military adventure vis a vis the French materialize, we want to be right off the line with coverage…minute our people in Iraq that they must, under no circumstances, permit anyone other than our own employees to make use of our computer systems in place there. We have been virtually ordered under threat of prosecution under “national security” directives to keep irate military personnel from “leaking sensitive and always inaccurate” material. Make sure everyone gets this…

(January 10) …with reference my memo of the 9th, do not discuss the French business unless and until. The Bush people want an administration change in Paris and we have to be careful not to mention any military assistance from our side. Diplomatic and economic pressure will be tried first. The French will cave in just like Brazil will stop its fingerprinting of US citizens. Either that or the World Bank and IMF will put them on the grill. Bush is visiting their president and will give him the word that we will not permit some third world state to dictate to us…they have even been photographing diplomats and CIA commercial cover people!

(January 4, 2004) The Iowa circus goes on its merry way with lots of backbiting, kicking, gouging and spitting. We can count Lieberman out because he is an Orthodox Jew and aside from some of his tribe, he is not going to get main line votes. Braun is black and a women which are two strikes against her, Gebhart will be lucky to take Iowa and dragging his Lesbian daughter out of the closet isn’t going to do him any good in Dubuque. Kerry is making noises but his slaughter of unarmed women and children in Viet Nam plus the fact that he is Jewish won’t help him either. Ditto for Clark on the racial issue plus he changes his mind depending on how the wind is blowing. That leaves Dean and he is downright mean, especially to the press which he will be punished for in due time. Dick Cheney has a very bad heart. Recently had a check up and they will not release the results. Insider info gives him a 50-50 chance of buying the farm (not in Iowa) before the election. It’s common knowledge that Cheney is running the government. We have been requested not, repeat not, to ask the President unexpected questions at press conferences. He got nailed in Mexico by a fellow from Reuters who asked him a question that Bush simply had no idea how to answer. His mumblings and twitchings on camera were painful to watch…

(January 14, 2004) There are two major and very serious problems looming on the horizon for us. The first is the coming vote in November and the strong probability that there will be a reprise of the Florida mess. Our sources, Beltway rumor and other indicators, are very clear that vote stealing via badly flawed “electronic voting” is in train now. This has the fingerprints of Rove all over it but there is always plausible deniability, as in the Wilson “leak” case. The NYT has been pounding on this and it is also a favorite theme of anti-Bush internet sites. If the White House rams this national “Electronic Voting” program through, it could lead to another stolen election and that could lead to revolt inside both the Congress and the public…We have also learned that it is being “suggested” that all GI absentee votes be “directed” towards a Bush election. Considering the anger of the troops at this point, these absentee ballots are anticipated to be strongly anti-Bush. “Electronic Voting” is being thought of as a “fast and convenient” method of allowing “our stalwart heroes” a “quick method of reelecting their Commander in Chief.” Read Thomas Carlyle on the origins of the French Revolution or even study our own…We have been firmly requested to conduct interviews of returning troops. The theme will be satisfaction on job well done. As the temper of the returning troops is highly uncertain, it has been suggested that we use actors in uniform. This has happened before…the Pentagon was writing dozens of praiseful letters allegedly from troops in Iraq to “their” local papers. The problem is that all of them were written by the same Pentagon PR official and sounded like it. 2004 might be an interesting year…Now the second major problem is illegal immigration which has reached epic proportions. It is officially estimated that there are 12 million illegal immigrants, mostly Mexican, now in America. Many are on welfare and many are taking jobs away from the lower level Americans, especially teenagers. No politician, and certainly no one from any level of the media, is going to tackle this one. I personally predict this will be the fuse that will ignite the public powder keg, if not this year, probably the next. Everyone from the President on down is keeping their mouths shut on this demographic disaster…

(January 23, 2004) It looks like the O’Neill book has legs after all. Threats to prosecute because of the use of confidential or secret documents have died away. Coming up now is Bush’s dismal military record. If Kerry gets the Democratic nomination, the combat issue will certainly come up. The true story about Bush’s alleged AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard is fairly simple. He flunked his drug tests and no way they wanted him to fly expensive aircraft into downtown Houston. He refused to take any drug tests and just walked off the job. With Dad’s connections, that got him into the Guard and safely away from ‘Nam, it was not likely he would get gigged for his vanishing act so he was safe…but now copies of medical reports stating our Prez had “serious drug and alcohol” problems have surfaced. Most were destroyed on Rove’s orders after Bush was a serious contender but some were stashed. Of course we can’t air these or we would lose our license but this is no secret in certain circles. Bush does not want to extend the mandate of the 9/11 commission but he may have to. They are all afraid of what most of us know is clear knowledge of the attack and the deliberate failure to do anything about it. Their arrogance is unbelievable….

(February 12, 2004) Much ado about the actual casualty figures from Iraq. Pentagon says only two to three thousand injured but the actual figure is now over 10,000! Also, growing rumors that the dead are way underreported. This theory is supported by a Presidential order prohibiting any photographs to be taken at Dover AFB where the remains of dead GIs are flown in. An Air Force person called one of our reporters with the news that there have been a lot more body bags being unloaded than the press reports and that security at Dover is “very, very high” and that the personnel there are constantly warned against talking about the subject under dire threats of prosecution for violation of “national security.” …

(February 13) Bush is now blaming the CIA for giving him false and misleading intelligence but if he is not careful, the DCI will “leak” papers showing clearly that the Bush people were well aware that the false reports were just that; fakes. They asked for them and they got them. I guess they figured on a quick and successful war after which Bush could have his parades to salute and would have lots of bites of really nice patriotic scenes for the election…
(March 12, 2004) We are being officially urged to portray the terrorist bombings in Madrid as the product of Basque separatists. The Spanish government has beseeched the DoS and the White House not to portray the perps as Arabs because of the upcoming elections. The White House does not want to lose Spanish support, not because of the meager 1,500 troops Spain has shipped to Iraq but because if the present regime in Spain falls, a withdrawal by a new government is almost certain and Bush would get a terrible black eye…not that he hasn’t been getting plenty lately. Carey is wreaking havoc on the stomachs of RNC and White House staffers. First, these folks believed they had so much money they could dictate the course of the television ad campaigns. They had hundreds of millions raised from friends of the administration and felt too secure in their power…. We sell ads to whomever pays the freight, don’t forget that. We have been pressured to deny ads to the Democrats but that would be economic suicide. If Bush loses and we cast out lot with his people, the other side would have their revenge on all of us. The middle of the fence is always the safest…unless a Bush victory was a certainty…which it is certainly not.

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