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March
27, 2003
The Corporate War Press
Onward Embedded
Soldiers
By THE BLACK COMMENTATOR
The
awesome maratelethon has invaded the nation's households as Manifest
Destiny on the march, a political spectacle in which the military are
props and the civilian announcers are inspired by the most grotesque
delusions of racial triumphalism.
"Operation
Iraqi Freedom," the embedded multi--media experience, is neither
news nor military propaganda. Rather, it is an imperial work in progress,
an attempted re--orchestration of the (white) American anthem and saga.
Like the musical national anthem, it is an ugly song, and one that a
rapidly diminishing number of people want to sing.
Although it may
appear that the U.S. military has permanently occupied telecommunications,
this is an illusion. In reality, the American military and the corporate
media have been totally subordinated to the political project and vision
of the Pirates who took control of the U.S. government January 20, 2000.
As the announcer on the old Sci--fi TV series "The Outer Limits"
used to informed the audience: "Do not attempt to adjust your television
set. We are in complete control...!"
"We" are
the political representatives of a Pirate class that profits directly
from war and "reconstruction" in the wake of war. (See "Rule
of the Pirates: the $200 billion payday," December 5.) The Bush
men seek nothing less than free rein to pillage the globe in a "marketplace"
of brute force, a distinctly American hegemonic heaven.
The military is
their servant, junior partners even at the Pentagon, which is the toy
of corporate think tanks, weapons systems marketers and for--profit
war scenario--conjurors like Defense Group Inc., the people who sold
"Shock and Awe" to the Defense Department. The "brass"
are routinely overridden at every strategic and tactical stage of military
decision--making, most dramatically in the current Iraq invasion. Donald
Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of the Pirate cabal
arbitrarily rewrite the military battle plan and the official script
to enhance the political images. They cut and paste a virtual reality
that bears little relationship to the material exigencies on the ground,
or to the political sensibilities of the globe. In a sense, this is
a private showing of a national infomercial for the Bush--branded New
American Century.
A civilian
imposition
The military was
drafted into the virtual aspects of this production. Working soldiers
want nothing to do with media flakes and flacks flitting around the
field of battle. (Nor would managers at nuclear power plants or munitions
factories.) The "embeds" of the virtual "Operation Iraqi
Freedom" were imposed on the military by Bush's corporate public
relations experts. Militaries seek victory, then parades. Political
spin masters are predators of the mind. Media manipulators keep the
audience in thrall for the longest possible period of time -- no duration
is beyond their ambitions.
The TV show and
the coterminous military assault are equally the actual beginnings of
Permanent War. The war is real, willed into existence and sustained
by the delusions of a racist American public. The virtual rendition
is deemed a success to the extent that (white) America believes it.
Or, more accurately, believes in it.
"The Pirates
know their fellow Americans well," wrote in our commentary, Racism
and War: Perfect Together," March 13. "White America sees
the world through the eyes of the mass murderer and slaveholder. Were
it not so, there would not exist the grotesque disconnect between white
American public opinion and the opinions of mankind, shared generally
by Black America. Bush would not be possible."
The Bush men were
confident that a public deluded enough to believe, in the absence of
any evidence, that Saddam Hussein "had something to do with"
the events of September 11 is a population eager to commit any outrage
against a non--white people. Corporate Republicans rule because they
have divined the mass white psyche. The Bush men also know that the
corporate media are no different than their next--door neighbors.
Thus, a war--hungry
corporate media were thrust upon an unwilling officer corps. The embedded
press have performed beyond the Pirate's wildest expectations, embellishing
the administration's lies for the pleasure of a (white) public that
has "lived in a warped and artificial bubble of their own self--serving
creation since they killed their first 'red savage' and whipped their
first 'nigger brute.'"
Super--hyped
lies
Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting assigned itself the near impossible task of tracking a
Niagara of media untruths. On March 25, the beleaguered FAIR watchdogs
reported on broadcast lies by network household names about Iraqi use
of Scud missiles -- disinformation that the media made up all by themselves:
ABC's Ted Koppel,
"embedded" with an infantry division, reported matter--of--factly
that "there were two Scud missiles that came in. One was intercepted
by a patriot missile." ABC anchor Derek McGinty had earlier explained
that "there was a Scud attack, one Scud fired from Basra into
Kuwait. It was intercepted by an American patriot battery, and apparently
knocked out of the sky. There is still no word exactly what was on
that Scud, whether or not there might have been any sort of unconventional
weaponry onboard."
Fox News Channel's
William La Jeunesse was not only asserting that a Scud had been launched,
but was drawing conclusions about its significance: "Now, Iraq
is not supposed to have Scuds because they have a range of 175 up to
400 miles. The limit by the U.N., of course, is like 95 miles. So, we
already know they have something they're not supposed to have."
The military later
announced "that U.S. forces searching airfields in the far western
desert of Iraq have uncovered no missiles or launchers." In fact,
the Iraqis had not launched any Scuds since the beginning of the invasion.
Unsatisfied with
General Tommy Franks' assurances that the U.S. will "certainly"
find evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, the embeds hyped
every desert stopover by WMD searchers, "breathless" to confirm
the existence of a "smoking gun" that would justify all the
smoke, fire and death of Shock and Awe. FAIR reported:
ABC's John McWethy
promoted the story with this report: "Amidst all the fighting,
one important new discovery: U.S. officials say, up the road from
Nasarijah, in a town called Najaf, they believe that they have captured
a chemical weapons plant and perhaps more important, the commanding
general of that facility. One U.S. official said he is a potential
'gold mine' about the weapons Saddam Hussein says he doesn't have."
NBC's Tom Brokaw
described the story thusly: "Word tonight that U.S. forces may
have found what U.N. inspectors spent months searching for, a facility
suspected to be a chemical weapons plant, uncovered by ground troops
on the way north to Baghdad." NBC Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski
added what seemed to be corroborating details: "This huge chemical
complex... was constructed of sand--casted walls, in other words, meant
to camouflage its appearance to blend in with the desert. Once inside,
the soldiers found huge amounts of chemicals, stored chemicals.
Yet no chemical weapons were found. The Pentagon said it could not "determine
exactly what these chemicals are or how they could have been used in
weapons."
When the WDMs are
finally "discovered" the event will be anti--climatic as well
as probably staged, due to the impatience of the triumphalist media
to justify America's crimes.
We urge readers
to check in regularly with FAIR: http://www.fair.org/
Once embedded, American
reporters utterly self--destructed as professionals with the full blessing
of their government and corporate superiors. "We at no time want
to provide any information that can be of aid to the enemy," said
the vampirish Paula Zahn -- a signal to any sane viewer that everything
issuing from her mouth for the duration of the war is as false as her
face. "Very good point, Paula," Wolf Blitzer replied, knowing
well that his professional career rests on the enthusiasm of his contribution
to the war effort. Blitzer and his colleagues have no ethical problems
with the arrangement, however, since they are as delusional as their
(white) American audience. Their country and cause are just. "Facts"
are those things -- real or invented -- that conform to this assumption.
Betrayal of the assumption is a betrayal of the nation: aid to the enemy.
Present and unaccountable
Embedded corporate media hinder public understanding of unfolding events
in an occupied or contested Iraq. Their presence is more destructive
of truth than if they had been barred from the scene, entirely, because
they are infinitely capable of retailing and manufacturing lies -- which
they themselves believe.
At around 2 a.m.
Eastern Time, Sunday morning, a CNN reporter gained access to newly
captured Iraqi prisoners who were squatting or lying on the ground outside
a command tent, handcuffed. The embed shined his camera light in the
faces of the unhappy young men -- clearly soldiers -- moving among the
group looking for all the world like a plantation owner shopping for
slaves. "Here's another one," the embed told his crew, directing
the camera's glare to an Iraqi who covered his face, feigning sleep.
This is what is
known under the Geneva Conventions as subjecting prisoners to humiliation
as "public curiosities." The abuse was casual, totally gratuitous,
achieving nothing in the way of "news," but revealing the
identity of young men who might have good reason to fear the consequences
of having surrendered to the "enemy," unscathed. Embedded
crews throughout the advancing U.S. columns thought themselves lucky
to showcase human prizes for the curiosity and scorn of the American
audience.
Later Sunday morning,
Tim Russert and his panel of high ranking, objectively embedded stateside
corporate media friends were found in full roar over Iraqi "executions"
of American POWs -- speculation that they treated as fact for an entire
network half--hour. Had "sand nigger" hating Americans been
fully tuned to NBC's "Meet the Press," they would have doubtless
demanded the immediate nuking of Baghdad.
By noon, the Pentagon
and the White House had distanced themselves from the execution allegation.
In the end, the official complaint was that U.S. POWs had been subjected
to "public curiosity" by Iraqi and Al Jazeera television crews
-- a horrible violation of international law, said the President and
the U.S. press, revealing the savagery of the Iraqi regime.
Every one of the
thousands of media workers involved in virtual "Operation Iraqi
Freedom" was aware of the American embeds' many close up displays
of Iraqi prisoners. (All of the networks can and do monitor each others'
feeds.) Yet FOX and CNN -- both guilty -- continued for days to rant
incessantly about Baghdad's and Al Jazeera's crimes, while pretending
they had not done the same. Americans cannot be guilty of anything,
except "mistakes" of worldly innocence or misplaced kindness.
Doubly--delusional
Black embeds
The "colored"
embedded contingent is doubly delusional, twice afflicted, and thoroughly
insane. CNN's ridiculous Leon Harris is the worst. No matter the weightiness
of the subject, Harris appears like a weatherman, bouncing, smiling,
flirting, flippant. He is one happily embedded Atlanta--based Negro.
No script -- no problem. Harris just spouts the Bush men's line as if
that is his job: "The mission of the U.S. troops is a bi--fold
mission, not just freeing the Iraqi people, but bringing democracy to
the Iraqi people," said Harris the weatherman, making career points
with his skills at unqualified propaganda. Turning his attention to
an American officer in a remote location, Harris asks, "This town
has been liberated, right? Can I use that term?" Yes, you can,
says the military guy.CNN's military analyst doesn't look as much like
a weatherman as Harris, but he points a mean wand at an electronic map
showing arrows pointing to Baghdad. It is impossible to not conclude
that, at some point in his career, he was a weatherman -- and gave more
reliable reports.
CNN corporate parent
Time Magazine's Tim Lacey was unlucky enough to be working the nightshift
when a 101st Airborne Division sergeant reportedly fragged three officers'
tents. Negativity threatened to spoil the show. The pudgy--faced, forty--something
Lacy, who sounds exactly like a New York City beat cop and is limited
to the same vocabulary, immediately attempted to clean up the image
of his troops, his embedded buddies. "I can't say this enough,"
said Lacey, for the third time. "This is about one disgruntled
soldier, but everyone else here on this camp is doing just what everyone
expects of an American soldier." Absolutely.
Tim Mintier justified
the impending bombardment of Basra with words that can only sound logical
to the most impaired denizens of a pathological society. "Basra
is a key humanitarian distribution point," said the CNN embed.
"This is why it has been made a strategic target."
Iraq's army has
"infiltrated" into Iraq's second largest city, Mintier explained,
his face idiotic but, nevertheless, straight.
Racism renders most
white Americans incompetent to deal with people and facts that appear
to threaten the edifice of white supremacy, which they have internalized
as a core worldview. Since white supremacy exists only in their minds
-- and can be confirmed only through brute coercion -- white violence
seems arbitrary to sane human beings. We understand racist behavior
largely through the repetitive patterns of the pathology -- how "white
folks act." To venture into the emotional depths of the delusion,
we imagine, must be like a visit to hell. It is safer to watch from
a distance as the racist reacts to invisible threats, lashes out at
inoffensive people, or celebrates victories against imagined adversaries
-- in a way, like trying to figure out what a very aggressive mime "sees."
Alas, Shock and Awe serves notice that no people on the globe are out
of reach of the raging Pirates. But that does not mean the Bush men
are skilled at global piracy. After all, it's never been attempted under
21st Century conditions.
America is bringing the whole civilian media gang along for the rampage,
embedded for the benefit of several hundred million homebound delusionals.
Once summoned to the Coliseum, the mob must be entertained. The mood
of the continental crowd swings from trembling fear to mean--as--a--snake,
and must be accommodated -- rationality be damned!
However, delusional behavior is also incompetent behavior, and collective
delusion can wreck an adventure. The real "Operation Iraqi Freedom,"
the military action, began days and perhaps weeks too soon for the military
planners, jump started for the sake of the dynamic of the conversation
within the Bush crowd and their dialogue with white America. Bush delivered
his 48--hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein and the world on Monday, March
17. Premature ultimatum. Suddenly, on Wednesday the 19th, Saddam was
spotted (maybe) within reach. Swoosh. Premature projectile ejaculation.
The armored columns then had to move forward across the Kuwaiti border,
so that the internal momentum, willed by Bush--Cheney--Rumsfeld, could
be maintained, and the expectations of the public and the embedded press
-- Where's our Shock and Awe!? -- satisfied. Delay would be... unimperial,
a letdown -- dead air on the television.
Shock
and Awe deferred
As reported by UPI
on Tuesday, March 18, the northern U.S. invasion force, barred from
using Turkish territory, would require weeks to pass through the Suez
Canal, round the Arabian Peninsula, and steam up the Persian Gulf to
Kuwait. As of Ultimatum Day, Monday the 17th, the crucial 101st Airborne
Division's helicopters were still being unloaded from ships. The unpacking
was not yet finished on Wednesday, March 19, when Bush tried to swat
Saddam Hussein. Instead of the meticulously calibrated, rolling advance
under and through the smoke and hellfire of Shock and Awe, the Americans
and Brits lurched into war, like a driver who can't handle a stick shift.
The Pirate's allowed
the logic of their own imperial pronouncements to hobble the war plan.
An invincible America and its strong willed Leader must triumph over
Third Worlders with ease and under any circumstances, they assumed,
believing that they personify the manifestation of American Destiny.
So it is written, somewhere, and preached in vast, air--conditioned
suburban sunbelt churches. The Bush men acted on their own hype, waving
off the advice of commanders who have long sworn by a doctrine, associated
with Colin Powell, of decisive, swift, overwhelming, minutely coordinated
force. Instead, the Bush men listened to their political and public
relations voices, calibrating military movements to the perceived appetite
of the crowd. Strategic necessity was subordinated to the emotional
demands of the Bush men's racist constituency, people who, like the
Pirates themselves, do not live in synch with the rest of the planet,
and who believe actual facts on the ground are subject to proclamation
and ultimatum. Bush thought Americans craved quick blood. We know he
did.
The analytical ranks
among the embedded press were certainly aware that the much advertised
Plan had been mangled by impetuous, snap decisions from the very top.
But, what's an embed to do? Now part soldier, more than ever a propagandist,
and collectively infused to the marrow of their Indian--killer bones
with the prospect of white glory, the corporate media failed to call
effective attention to the incomplete U.S. force array.Instead, they
dutifully delivered the improvised Pentagon--White House cover stories.
The initial bombardment
and assault had been comparatively desultory when measured against The
Plan because... Saddam's generals were negotiating mass surrender. (Yeah,
that's the ticket.) No, the Americans were waiting to see if Saddam
were dead or alive. If dead, why, this whole Shock and Awe thing might
just be called off. (Sure, and forego putting the world in terror of
The Superpower. Wasn't that the point?) In the interest of sparing the
common foot soldiers of the Iraqi army, the U.S. would deign to pause.
(Even the embeds rolled their eyes at that one.)
In fact, if we
thought they were capable of comprehending us, we would shut up. We
want them to halt their aggression against the world, not fine--tune
it.
Rather, we are warning
that the behavior of the Bush men and their constituency -- a majority
of white Americans -- is bizarre and inherently unstable, based as it
is on shared illusions of white supremacy. (Black CNN "weatherman"
Leon Harris' idea of himself is also somehow reified by these delusions.)
White America is not rational. Its behavior must be anticipated through
a disciplined mental practice that was painfully learned by the slave
and her children. At these perilous times for the planet, and for those
who are thought of as domestic enemies, we must never forget that the
adversary is not only powerful, he is crazy.
In this regard,
the embedded media are useful indicators of the way the racist wind
is blowing. They are acting out collective white fantasies, unconstrained
by any pretense of professional ethics, purposely placing no distance
between themselves and the "national interest" as defined
by their Leader. They have been deputized, and are grinning like Barney
Fife of Mayberry. The Pirates play them like a piano, but it's a song
they enjoy as much as the Bush men do -- for now.
Grenada
coverage revisited
Almost 20 years
ago during the U.S. invasion of Grenada, the corporate media demonstrated
that their heart's true wish is to prove their fealty to the state --
that they have The White Stuff. An internal split in the ruling New
Jewel Movement followed by a military coup and the assassination of
the island nation's popular leader, Maurice Bishop, providing the pretext
for Ronald Reagan's air and sea assault. The well--rehearsed armada
arrived in Grenadan waters in October, 1983, on what was billed as a
mission to "rescue" American students at the island's medical
school. Soon it was announced that the action was necessary to "liberate"
the 70,000 or so inhabitants from the tyranny of a few hundred Cuban
construction workers and embassy--assigned soldiers.
The U.S. military
preferred that the media not get in the way of the mission. The outraged
press were placed on shipboard lockdown for the first 48 hours of the
invasion, forced to watch impotently from the railings as Navy Seals
and Army paratroopers landed without benefit of corporate media benediction.
The shipboard scribblers howled, while their stateside editors produced
negative ink on the wisdom of the invasion.
The Black Commentator's
co--publisher Glen Ford wrote a small book on the subject for the International
Organization of Journalists, titled, "The Big Lie: Analysis of
U.S. Press Coverage of the Grenada Invasion" (1985, IOJ, now out
of print). As soon as the military saw fit to allow the corporate media
on Grenada, Ford wrote, American newspapers and broadcast networks morphed
into cheerleaders for the invasion.
The Washington Post
had no real complaints about the invasion anymore, except for wounded
feelings over the initial news blackout:
"It was troublesome
and a bad precedent for Mr. Reagan to yield so much authority over
the actual operation to the uniformed military, which created an unnecessary
crisis of political confidence by barring the press and by too often
seeming blind to the operation's diplomatic context."
The Washington Post
appears to be saying, as boldly as its mumbling style permits, that
not only did the paper approve of the invasion but that, if the press
had been allowed its usual privileges the operation would have been
smoother, diplomatically and domestically. The Washington Post and its
counterparts would have helped explain the invasion and avert "an
unnecessary crisis."
The corporate media
are full partners in the invasion of Iraq, and may be effectively embedded
in one form or another for the remainder of Permanent War. They have
become trustees of the state, pampered passengers on the road to Baghdad,
Tehran....
Much of the global
press are invited to join the posse. Foreign media will selectively
avail themselves of the option, while in general recoiling from what
poet Dr. Rodney Coates calls "Operation Putrid Stench" and
its successors.
Any
alternative is better
In the meantime,
Brian Whitaker of The Guardian (UK) prefers official Iraqi briefings
to presentations by the American military, who offer little more than
assurances that the invasion is "moving forward" as planned.
Iraqi spokesmen,
on the other hand, have been remarkably forthcoming and, if we disregard
the usual rhetoric, the factual content of their statements has often
been more accurate than that of the invasion forces. Their figures for
Iraqi casualties have also been low enough to sound plausible.
The most comprehensive
and best analysis is posted daily at a Russian site:
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news077.htm
Lots of Russian
military men have been underemployed since the demise of the Soviet
Union. The Baku--based site provides valuable cross references to the
sparse and often--worthless accounts of American embeds. It's not a
Russian war -- although the crazies in the American War Party may soon
be claiming otherwise.
Meanwhile, the Associated
Press reports that the New York Stock Exchange has declared Al--Jazeera
staff persona non grata on the premises.
Exchange spokesman
Ray Pellechia denied the station's war coverage was the cause. Citing
"security reasons," he said the exchange had chosen to limit
the number of broadcasters working at the lower Manhattan exchange since
the war began, giving access only to networks that focus "on responsible
business coverage."
The truth? They
can't handle the truth!
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Adam
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Buckets of Blood
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David
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Robert Fisk
The Coup That Didn't Happen
April
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