Best. Freeway. Blog. Ever.

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60
feet long and only lasted about fifteen minutes, but well worth it
according to the artists. Made with cheap latex paint and disposable
plastic tablecloths: about ten dollars for a hundred foot roll. Brilliant.

Greatscat!

LATE NIGHT BROADCATCHING::Paul McCartney & Wings

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LATE NIGHT BROADCATCHING::Paul McCartney & Wings


Listen To What The Man Said
::Song taken from the LP called Venus and Mars and Live LP called Wings Over America.
Clip taken from the film “Rockshow”::

BREAKING…INSTANT CLASSIC!!::CRAIG CRAWFORD CAN"T HIDE HIS INDIGNATION AT ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS

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OBAMA ON IMUS+CRAIG CRAWFORD INDIGNANT AT ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS


OBAMA ON IMUS+CRAIG CRAWFORD INDIGNANT AT ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS

The Discussion starts out with two minutes for Barack Obama to opine on the Imus controversy and then:
INSTANT CLASSIC!
Check out Mr. Crawford at 2:43 when Armstrong Williams’ name is announced!
The Discussion is John Donald Imus

"God bless them, but we were thinking … that this was just bad news"

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Published on Saturday, July 3, 2004 by the Los Angeles Times
Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue
by David Zucchino
 


Cpl Edward Chin from New York of the 3rd battalion, 4th Marines
regiment, set up the star and stripes flag on the face of Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein’s statue, in downtown Bagdad, Wednesday, April
9, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)


The Army’s internal
study of the war in Iraq criticizes some efforts by its own
psychological operations units, but one spur-of-the-moment effort last
year produced the most memorable image of the invasion.

As the Iraqi regime
was collapsing on April 9, 2003, Marines converged on Firdos Square in
central Baghdad, site of an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein. It was a
Marine colonel — not joyous Iraqi civilians, as was widely
assumed from the TV images — who decided to topple the statue,
the Army report said. And it was a quick-thinking Army psychological
operations team that made it appear to be a spontaneous Iraqi
undertaking.

After the colonel
— who was not named in the report — selected the statue as
a “target of opportunity,” the psychological team used loudspeakers to
encourage Iraqi civilians to assist, according to an account by a unit
member.

But Marines had draped an American flag over the statue’s face.

“God bless them,
but we were thinking … that this was just bad news,” the member
of the psychological unit said. “We didn’t want to look like an
occupation force, and some of the Iraqis were saying, ‘No, we want an
Iraqi flag!’ “

Someone produced an Iraqi flag, and a sergeant in the psychological operations unit quickly replaced the American flag.

Ultimately, a
Marine recovery vehicle toppled the statue with a chain, but the effort
appeared to be Iraqi-inspired because the psychological team had
managed to pack the vehicle with cheering Iraqi children.

© Copyright 2004 Los Angeles Times

Army Stage-Managed Fall of Hussein Statue

Army confirms Psy-ops staged Saddam statue toppling

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 Army report confirms Psy-ops staged Saddam statue toppling – The NewStandard

by Jon Elmer

July 3, 2004 –
An internal Army study of the war in Iraq has confirmed that the
infamous toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square in
central Baghdad on April 9, 2003 was stage-managed by American troops
and not a spontaneous reaction by Iraqis. According to the study, a
Marine colonel first decided to topple the statue, and an Army
psychological operations unit turned the event into a propaganda
moment.

At one point during the stunt Marines draped the statue of Saddam
Hussein with an American flag. When the crowd reacted negatively to
that gesture, the US flag was replaced with a pre-1990 Iraqi flag,
missing the words “God is Great,” by a sergeant from the psychological
operations unit. The Marines brought in cheering Iraqi children in
order to make the scene appear authentic, the study said.

Allegations that the event was staged were made in April of last
year, mostly by opponents of the war, but were ignored or ridiculed by
the US government and most visible media outlets.

Army report confirms Psy-ops staged Saddam statue toppling – The NewStandard