Thursday, June 29, 2006

More Phony News

The Next Left: Vets for Freedom tied to Bush administration, propaganda efforts here in US:
"Vets for Freedom tied to Bush administration, propaganda efforts here in US

The pro-war veterans group, Vets for Freedom, has been directly linked to the Bush administration. And, former Bush administration spokesman Taylor Goss is successfully peddling articles written by Vets for Freedom members to newspapers across America:

A former spokesman for President Bush recently offered to several newspapers supposedly objective freelance stories from Iraq by two combat veterans who lead a pro-war group with deep Republican ties.

Several months after revelations that a Pentagon contractor was paying Iraqi news outlets for favorable war coverage, former White House spokesman Taylor Gross approached at least four major newspapers, including The Buffalo
News, with the offer. "

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