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Oh looky, it’s a campaign poster from that terrible man. Add this wretched design to his long list of crimes against humanity. [Copyranter]

The guy who did the “Obey” stickers also did a bunch of Barack Obama posters, which you can see everywhere unless you are blind. And now Candidate Obama, because he is a nice fellow with good manners, has written a thank-you note to Shepard Fairey. MORE »

Incredible as it seems, the Bush Administration may have been dishonest every day, forever, about Iraq. That’s the shocking conclusion of some study funded by “limousine liberal” George Soros. According to the report, Bush and Cheney and the rest of the administration spent all their time between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq successfully convincing our nation’s dumber people — Congress, reporters, etc. — that Saddam Hussein was about to launch even more jetliners full of anthrax at American buildings. MORE »

“Issuing a stunning rocket” (that is Kate Phillips’ phrase — we have no clue what it means but we like it and may begin all of today’s posts with it), the Pentagon told Hillary Clinton that they were going to sent her to Gitmo if she keeps kinda-sorta planning a withdrawal from Iraq. No, seriously. Her half-assed non-plan is considered “enemy propaganda” and the Pentagon is totally serious about fighting the War on Mild Criticism. MORE »

In a stunning development, the White House has invented a story about discovered that Austrian guns have been used to fire at the American occupiers in Iraq. This is not looking good for Austria. MORE »

Back when he was “Jeff Gannon” and only the Bush Administration senior officials who let him stay overnight at the White House knew he was a gay prostitute, mysterious GOP agent James Guckert was also playing a subtle blatant role in the smear campaign against Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame.

Nobody read “Talon News” — the propaganda website that supposedly employed Gannon/Guckert as a White House correspondent — so Gannon/Guckert’s anti-Wilson articles hardly influenced anyone. Fox News and Bob Novak could reach millions of people with that same White House marketing! Where Gannon/Guckert proved useful was, as always, in the televised press briefings with Scott McClellan and even Bush himself.

Come see the creepy evidence, after the jump.

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Terrifying Cheney goon Mary Matalin has grown bored with old-fashioned propaganda. These days, she’s experimenting on voters’ brains so surgeons can destroy the part that hates this administration. Matalin describes her bizarre human-research laboratory in a weird “Point-of-View” on that HotSoup.com thing:

When you put people in a room and discuss politics with them and you put an M.R.I. on their brain, the functioning, rational, logical part of their brain relative to politics goes black, and their emotional mind and the emotional part of the brain lights up. Further studies have shown not only do the rational parts of the brain fire up over political dialogue, the next step that’s happening is the brain is ascribing negative motives to the opposite view.

WTF? We find it interesting that Matalin reveals her horrific Mengele techniques just as the Pentagon begins publicly using Pain Rays on citizens, researchers find a convenient “silver dollar sized” part of the brain that should be removed to make people stop smoking, and the Washington Post reveals that every paranoid fantasy about government mind control is actually true and being practiced today. MORE »

If you were worried that even neocons seem to have lately discovered shame and regret, we’ll always have alternative-reality propagandist Amir Taheri and his endless supply of hysterical bullshit about Iran and Iraq and whatever other country they’re going to blow up next. Witness the tragicomic incoherent beauty of Taheri’s column in today’s NY Post:

Some 70 percent of Baghdad’s violence is concentrated in five neighborhoods, where both Shiites and Sunnis have been the targets of rival death squads for months. Other Baghdadis say the population of those areas will greet the American troops with sweets and flowers.

What?! Not even Dick Cheney in campaign mode has peddled this ridiculous lie for years. Oh well, what do you expect from the propagandist who made up an entire “Iran makes the Jews wear yellow badges and homosexuals wear blue hat” story that the National Post put on the front page? MORE »