The Department of Propaganda
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"It is not known whether or not Joseph Goebbels will head the new Department."
Many wondered what would replace the Transparency Czar’s office when it was deleted last week.
But California Rep. Darrell Issa already knew what was coming.
Rep. Darrell Issa is out with a report this morning claiming that the Obama administration has engaged in an unprecedented amount of illegal propaganda.
The charge is almost undoubtedly true: As the report drily catalogues, virtually every 20th century administration, particularly in wartime, skirted the limits on propaganda. The first administration fully in the new media age produces a far, far larger volume of media than any of its predecessors, and Issa argues that some of it crosses the line.
More than just a watchdog, Issa has been an oversight bulldog, sniffing around everything the White House gets into.
Although some of his charges might be superfluous (like these), the more mud Issa throws at the wall, the greater the chance that something is going to stick.
Dana Perino, when describing the President’s Communications team, said that they they tend to “rub the spot on the wall“.
Eventually, somebody at the Obama Administration is going to get dragged down by one these hunks of mud that Issa continues fling at the White House walls.
Darrell Issa. The guy who refused federal funds to ailing workers on the 9/11 site would rather spend those funds slinging mud and hoping something will stick. He is a pathetic loser. I can recall when he wept like a little kid when he realized he wouldn’t become governor of CA. The man is trying to be more than a footnote in the history books.
And you want to talk propaganda? The Bush Admin was pretty good at it. Note Issa defended the Bush Admin “lost” Plamegate emails to a computer glitch. Talk about propaganda. It was a claim he later had to refute.