Some Australian whackjob called Gandhi, wanting his few minutes of fame, argues that right-wing blogs which supported the war in Iraq are not the work of intelligent, free-thinking people, but rather the work of people on the US government payroll. His logic? Reciprocal links!
Chrenkoff’s “Good News” site is part of a tight little network of US propaganda blogs, including Iraq The Model, Little Green Footballs, Roger L Simon, etc (just check the mutual links on each site).Any intelligent observer quickly comes to suspect that there is far more to these sites than meets the eye.
Yes, he did say intelligent.
For example, Chrenkoff celebrated his blog’s first anniversary with some intriguing nods of thanks to supporters including “Major Tammes at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, our special correspondent and tireless translator Haider Ajina, and friends at CENTCOM, various embassies and ministerial offices, who have to remain nameless.”
As Chrenk points out:
As we all know, secret operatives are known to publicly thank their covert masters on the occasion of important anniversaries.
And more proof from our very own no full of-sh*t Sherlock:
Another example. I became suspicious that Omar Fadhil, one of the bloggers at Iraq The Model, was actually running a Berlin-based radio show. According to my Google search, about the only person in the world who posted a link to this German “Election Radio” show was Australian-based blogger Arthur Chrenkoff, who just happens to be a very big fan of the brothers at Iraq The Model (the feeling is mutual). Chrenkoff’s link to the German radio show was included in part 20 of his “Good News From Iraq” series. Surprise, surprise, Omar Fadhil at Iraq The Model then just happened to post a link to Chrenkoff’s Good News From Iraq Part 20 story! (click here for my previous post on this)
Still not convinced? This should convince you:
The USA has acknowledged that it is running PsyOps in Iraq and it requires little imagination to argue that sites like these are all on the US government payroll.
Yes, very little imagination indeed. Not to mention very little in the IQ department.
But what conspiracy theory is complete without the obligatory reference to the Jooos Israel?
My point is that there exists an extensive network of blogs and websites with the mutual objective of spreading pro-war propaganda (if not outright lies). And as I said, given all the lies we have been told, it would be naive to think that none of these sites is on the US (or Israeli) government payroll.
Is Gandhi anti-Semitic? Perhaps. But just don’t call him anti-Semetic.
Now someone called Judith calls me an asshole for voicing suspicions about the Kesher Talk website’s extensive coverage of Omar and Mohammed Fadhil’s trip to the USA (where these Iraqi bloggers just happened to meet with George W. Bush and Paul Wolfowitz in the White House). Predictably, Judith also comes very close to calling me anti-Semetic.
Summing up his closing arguments, boy wonder concludes:
Ask yourself what motivates people like Arthur, Judith, Simon, the Fadhil brothers and Howard? Are they really decent, caring right-wingers who sincerely dedicate their free time to such sites in the belief that the Bush agenda – including the Iraq War – is a great leap forward for freedom? If so, why are they not angry at all these lies we have been told? Indeed, why do they themselves help to spread such lies with such voracity? Or could it be that they are pursuing their own selfish agendas by jumping on the pro-war bandwagon?
Jumping on the pro-war bandwagon for their own agendas? But a second ago he was claiming they were, in effect, driving the bandwagon, by serving the US and Israeli governments’ agendas.
Furthermore, if Gandhi is so against lies, how come he doesn’t speak out against some of the biggest lies to have been perpetuated in recent times, including the lie of the “Palestinian” nation?
Judith’s right. He really is the hole of a donkey.
