thinkprogress.org - 4/10/2009
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Last year, the New York Times revealed that numerous cable news “military analysts” never disclosed their ties to military contractors . Yesterday, Lt. Gen. Tom McInerney appeared on Fox News to discuss the Somali pirates situation, and managed to use it as an opportunity to shill ...
sistertoldjah.com - 4/9/2009
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sistertoldjah.com —
During the last eight years, if a conservative
blogger dared say anything in support of Bush or...
Congressional Republicans, we were accused of being shills, being paid to say/write what we said/wrote. Which explains why so many conservative bloggers ...
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Remind Me Again Who Shills For Their Party?
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FOX News' Tom McInerney Uses Pirate Attack To Shill For His Military Contractor Client
News Hounds —
... time could never be as good (from a land base on, say, the Arabian Peninsula) as a Hornet or other existing Navy jet floating in the waters nearest the pirates.
Finally, McInerney fails to mention that, though capable of ground attack, the F-22 is optimized for air-to-air operations, i.e., shooting down other fighters.
The idea of going after hostage-taking pirates with an advanced fighter jet and a high-altitude drone is absurd on its face.
H/T Think Progress
Hullabaloo —
... after arguing for months that federal spending isn't stimulative. They have wired the political establishment to orient themselves this way. Heck, they have media embeds who extoll the virtues of various weapons systems in the media without having to disclose how they profit off of them. ...
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