{"id":1663,"date":"2003-08-28T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T19:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/28\/blatant-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:27:45","slug":"blatant-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/28\/blatant-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Blatant propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13628,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.villagevoice.com\\\/issues\\\/0335\\\/hoberman.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080517012619\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.villagevoice.com\\\/issues\\\/0335\\\/hoberman.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:23:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:23:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13629,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/cooperativeresearch.org\\\/timeline\\\/main\\\/dayof911.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200731214130\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.cooperativeresearch.org\\\/timeline\\\/main\\\/dayof911.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:23:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:23:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13630,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.esoterically.net\\\/log\\\/archives\\\/000908.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050503074940\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.esoterically.net:80\\\/log\\\/archives\\\/000908.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:23:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 12:23:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Village Voice takes a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0335\/hoberman.php\" title=\"Lights, Camera, Exploitation\">the upcoming &#8220;docudrama&#8221; DC 9\/11<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The upcoming Showtime feature DC 9\/11: Time of Crisis is a signal advance in the instant, ongoing fictionalization of American history, complete with the president fulminating most presidentially against &#8220;tinhorn terrorists,&#8221; decisively employing the word problematic in a complete sentence, selling a rationale for preemptive war, and presciently laying out American foreign policy for the next 18 months. &#8220;We start with bin Laden,&#8221; Bush (played by Timothy Bottoms) tells his cabinet. &#8220;That&#8217;s what the American people expect. . . . So let&#8217;s build a coalition for that job. Later, we can shape different coalitions for different tasks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  The &#8220;Battle Hymn of the Republic&#8221; swells as Bush flies into ground zero, where he astonishes even Rove (Allan Royal) by spontaneously vaulting a police barricade to hop on the rubble and grab the microphone. A nearby fireman, compelled to tell the president that he didn&#8217;t vote for him, swears allegiance, mandating Bush to &#8220;find the son of a bitch who did this.&#8221; Once Bush realizes that &#8220;today, the president has to be the country,&#8221; Rove considers the image problem solved. Bush, he explains, has become commander in chief and taken back &#8220;control of his destiny.&#8221; The climax is Bush&#8217;s televised, prime-time September 20 speech&#8212;a montage of highly charged 9-11 footage that ends with the real-life, now fully authenticated Bush accepting the adulation of Congress as he fingers the talismanic shield worn by a fallen New York police officer.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> scary is that people will eat this up, and accept it as the truth &#8212; and it&#8217;s a far, far cry from <a href=\"http:\/\/cooperativeresearch.org\/timeline\/main\/dayof911.html\" title=\"September 11 minute by minute\">what really happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esoterically.net\/log\/archives\/000908.html\" title=\"Esoterically.net: 9\/11 fiction\">Len<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Village Voice takes a look at the upcoming &#8216;docudrama&#8217; DC 9\/11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}