Maybe this has been up for a while, but I've noticed that the good folks at the Pentagon have established a Web site specifically to counter news reports they don't like.

Let me rephrase that:

Your tax dollars are paying for a U.S. Department of Defense Web site established specifically to counter the free press.

Propaganda, pure and simple.

They even have an area of the site called "News Products". Got that? It's not news. It's news products. Kinda like meat by-products. Or cheese food.

Didn't the Bush administration's ass get paddled by the Government Accountability Office a while back for disseminating canned news reports?

Sigh.

More proof that our leaders can't lead. They can only market.

See also: Orwell.

UPDATE 10/31: They aren't just online. They're in full election PR mode. Online and offline. With "surrogates" supporting their favored candidates. I work in PR. PR costs money. Lots of money. The kind of money that could be used to give our troops in Iraq adequate body armor. Just sayin'.

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