Frank Rich has an excellent overview of the White House’s fake news propaganda machine:
By my count, “Jeff Gannon” is now at least the sixth “journalist” (four of whom have been unmasked so far this year) to have been a propagandist on the payroll of either the Bush administration or a barely arms-length ally like Talon News while simultaneously appearing in print or broadcast forums that purport to be real news.
Now, I may just be naive here, but wouldn’t paying someone to give a false impression of journalistic support for your administration constitute, I don’t know, LYING?
And this may be even more naive, but doesn’t the Bible - you know, the book the President likes to talk about a whole lot - say something like “thou shalt not bear false witness?”
I’m just asking…
