Friday, October 7, 2011

HONDURAS-Pepe & Barry-O's love-fest vs. today's bloody reality http://quotha.net/node/1997

Lanny Davis's propaganda machine is in full swing today, with Lobo's visit to DC. Having ghostwritten him a piece in the Wall Street Journal ("The Threats to Latin American Democracy: Authoritarianism, international terrorism and the drug trade retard regional progress"), Lobo's PR agents also saw to it that largely uncritical—even glowing—articles would be published in other corporate media, like Bloomberg ("Obama Lauds Progress of Honduras on Democratic Governance") and Reuters ("Obama hails return of Honduras to democratic fold"). The absurdist propaganda that these and other pieces from today represent would be comical, if it weren't for the ongoing slaughter they mask in the Aguán

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