Wednesday, January 04, 2006

'Good (FAKE) News' From Iraq - We're losing the war – but don't worry, the neocons are making the bucks...

The news that the Lincoln Group, a heretofore obscure public relations firm owned and operated by GOP hacks, has been planting "good news from Iraq" stories in the Iraqi media (and now even paying Sunni Muslim clerics to get on board the "democracy" choo-choo train) has been all over the media, but less noted is the fact that at least one prominent neoconservative with a number of interesting views and connections – Michael Rubin, formerly with the Coalition Provisional Authority, and now a freelance kvetch – is also milking the same cash cow.