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Hillary Clinton: America is Losing An Information War to Al Jazeera
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared before the U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities Committee yesterday, stating that counter to our history, we are are now “losing an information war” to other countries.
Clinton also told the committee that private media isn’t up to the task of fighting the information war:
“Our private media cannot fill that gap. In fact our private media, particularly cultural programming often works at counter purposes to what we truly are as Americans and what our values are. I remember having an Afghan general tell me that the only thing he thought about Americans is that all the men wrestled and the women walked around in bikinis because the only TV he ever saw was Baywatch and World Wide Wrestling.”
She also mentioned that while the U.S. did a great job in getting America’s message out during the Cold War, after the Berlin Wall fell we stopped and we are paying a price for that.
As a result, the emphasis on cultural programming has led to other countries beating us at our own game.
Clinton further told the committee:
“Al Jazeera is winning. The Chinese have opened up a global English language and multi-language television network, the Russians have opened up an English language network. I’ve seen it in a couple of countries and it’s quite instructive.”
Even though Clinton didn’t name names, she was placing the blame for “ceding what we are most expert in to somebody else” on every administration since Reagan, including that of her own husband.
If Clinton wants the U.S. to really get back in the game, then she and others in the Obama administration need to muster up the courage to send real information, real (dare I say) propaganda overseas to counter misinformation from Al Jazeera, China amd Russia etc… We can’t rely on fluff programming to do the job for us.
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9 Comments for Hillary Clinton: America is Losing An Information War to Al Jazeera
As usual SECSTATE is a day late and a dollar (rial?) short. Wrong tense…not “losing” the war, lost is more correct. Hell, we get Al Jazeera on my tv but can’t pick up local stations. Yup..lost is the right word.
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With a traitor like OBAMA in the whitehouse the terrorists will always have a big time supporter
Obama berates “Foxnews”, but He AND Hillary want AlJazerra….Just great.
These two Marxists-Both students of Alinsky, really DO want to bring our Republic to it’s knees. Just what we need-this would be a great recruiting tool for the Muslim Radicals wouldn’t it? Between Hillary and
Obama being our “enemies from within”-both hate the military, hate conservatives, tea party people(they call racist)- while protecting Muslims
and Islamics, is VERY telling. Isn’t there someone, among our poltical
reps, who can stop these two from destroying America completely? They need
to step in and stop all this insanity that is going on.
And its all becuase of her husbands acts of treason
When Hillary refered to “fluff programming” I assumed that she was speaking of CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS. Haha. I agree with her. Radio Free Europe and other broadcasts were very effective. There is one broadcast originating from Washington that broadcasts to Iran that holds promise in offsetting the official state television of Iran. Obama’s idea of allowing Aljazeera into the United States is, shall we say, counter productive.
I heard recently that the English Al-Jaazeera was all fluff & just like the Obamanworks,,ABC,CBS, etc,,,,,yet the Arabic version was sending messages to young muslims in this country to prepare for a ji-had & prepare to kill all Americans when the crap hits the fan. So Hillary & BHO & all of his Obamanistas,,,like Sam Donaldson & other pinko liberals swear by Al-Jazeera,,,as the New Wave of News,,,when any American Patriot with a brain will see thru the smokescreen & ‘swear AT al-jazerra for the propaganist news org. that they REALLY are’. My opinion only.
With a $50+ billion “intelligence” budget, and this is the best we can do?
Here’s another way to save big bucks: Cut the intel budgets in hlaf, put some actual leaders in charge of the dozens of agencies, and do what any Army sergeant knows needs to be done.
Our nation appears to be run by Ivory Tower idiots. That after 20 years with access to all sorts of elite information, even Hillary has finally apparently awoken…our enemies must wake up each morning and slap themselves, unbelieving of how stupid the Americans are.