The Political Chase

The British Media and Attacking Iran

When it comes to the Bush-Cheney administration, you never know what to believe, but one thing always remains constant - they can never be trusted. Unfortunately, they’re like children. When they say they’ve brushed their teeth, you have to check their toothbrush. A wet toothbrush doesn’t prove they did, but a dry one is proof they did not.

In that same vein, the administration’s escalating rhetoric of war with Iran is like a wet toothbrush. Pretty stupid analogy I know, but look what we have to work with. And, in some cases the media is the same. FOX News Noise comes to mind rather quickly for some reason.

Earlier, I posted the Telegraph’s blockbuster piece about the Bush-Cheney plans to attack Iran as has about everybody, however Josh Marshall says tread lightly.

The problem of course is that — how delicately to say this — the British press isn’t that reliable. Yes, yes, yea, yea, I know I’ll catch hell for saying that. And I’m an avid reader of British papers. But as I learned while doing full-time reporting on intelligence and national security topics the British press — even, perhaps especially prestige outlets like the Telegraph, the Times, and the FT — turn out to be far more porous than the American papers to agitprop of this kind, sundry false-flag bamboozlement and even cases where particular reporters (if not the papers themselves) were not above planting false stories at the behest of various European intelligence agencies.

It’s a guessing game; therefore, we can only watch the War Mongers carefully and hope they in fact have more intelligence than what has been presented publicly for six and one-half years.