PR, TV, War and Tyrants

It's a horror to imagine what would have happened had Hitler had the UN, modern PR, and TV reporting to assist him in the 1940s.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the U.N. in its current system "doesn't work" and is "antidemocratic." Chavez called for reform, saying the U.S. government's "immoral veto" had allowed recent Israeli bombings of Lebanon to continue unabated for more than a month...At UN, Chavez Calls Bush 'The Devil', Breitart.com

Chavez's remarks were greeted, as were the rants and ravings of the President of Iran, with thunderous applause. Imagine an alternative history where friends of Hitler came to a huge public forum, with a potential TV audience of hundreds of millions, to declare that the Allies were unfair to attack Hitler. Of the Holocaust, such a friend, such as the Prime Minister of Bosnia (then an ally of Germany), might say that Uncle Adolf was only cleaning house, pretty much what the President of Iran feels about nuking Israel. In the interests of objectivity, few MSM reporters noted these things.

As with conspiracy theories, the lies of politicians (and their ambitions) are spread like a prairie fire fanned by the hot winds of an unquestioning press whose reporters seem to be more concerned with their hairdos, their poltitical correctness, and their clubability with the Left than with telling the truth.

Luther