Rumsfeld Told His Media Committee Our Enemies Are So Dastardly That They Have Media Committees

Among the documents the New York Times pried loose from the Defense Department for their story on TV military analysts are the records from a December 12, 2006 meeting some of the analysts had with Donald Rumsfeld. It includes this Rumsfeld complaint:

RUMSFELD: [Iraqi militias] know the center of gravity of the thing is here in the United States. It isn't out there. And they're designing their attacks to have maximum effect politically, to weaken the will of the American people. Doing a pretty good job. Hell of a lot more skillful at it than we are. Have a lot greater flexibility. They can lie. Don't have bureaucracy. They have media committees that they operate to manipulate the media. And they do it very skillfully.

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It would be wonderful enough for Rumsfeld to say this publicly, but it's truly beautiful that he did so to his own media committee. The only thing missing is Rumsfeld angrily denouncing Iraqis for being named Donald Rumsfeld.

(The entire hour-long briefing is available as a wav sound file or a pdf transcript. This section is on page 3, and starts at about 5:50.)

PREVIOUSLY IN WORLD-WITHOUT-IRONY NEWS: Dick Cheney tells Larry King:

CHENEY: I think there's a special obligation on major news organizations, when they're dealing with what can sometimes be life-and-death matters, to get it right.

Originally posted at A Tiny Revolution

Comments

[Indoboy7]

It has taken long enough, but -at last- the country will get a good look at the three stooges who have run this country (almost) into the ground.Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have tried long enough to hide behind: executive privilege and national security. The Nation not only gets to see how pathetically shortsighted and inept they have been from day one, but also the cold, calculating way in which they employed EVERYONE to systematically manipulate and delude the public into going along with their breath-takingly narrowminded view of the world..The word noecons has been used to describe them, but I think -after more revelations that are bound to come out- the word neonazi-wannabees more accurately describes their true mindset..Their overriding attitude has allways been;...America UBER ALLES.....The only thing missing is the goosestepping + nazi sieg heil salute...Anyone daring to disagree with their view is automatically branded a traitor or weak on terrorism.....Bush, Cheney and the rest of that sorry "Cabal"makes me hurl everytime I have to realize that they have represented the "face"of America for the past 7+ years.America is in need of a "facelift"..Do the american people realize that McCain is offering to complete Bush's third term in the White House..??..Wake up THIS TIME, AMERICA...!!...Excuse me while I go flush something down the toilet.......

[RabidRightRebel]

Doctor Strangelove is alive and well and his name is Rumsfeld.

[Durango]

Wrong!

Rumsfeld lacks the intelligence of Strangelove.

[kavan]

Bathos!