Part 1 – Real War News vs. Public Relations Propaganda (War Fake News)
On August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi tanks invaded Kuwait to steal their oil wealth.
Egregious Horror Stories, created (or exaggerated) by Public Relations professionals are the basis for the Dramatic Appeal to Pity and Appeal to Fear – the basic most powerful tool of professional war propagandists to inspire one-sided Dogmatic Sympathy vs. one-sided Dogmatic HATRED in a war (or any other dispute).
The Kuwaiti government had hired one or more American Public Relations firms and/or professionals to promote their victimization story. The theme was 100% accurate – Kuwait was clearly the victim of a totally unprovoked invasion (completely different from Ukraine today).
[By the way, if Russia or Putin has been paying a Public Relations firm, they should demand a total refund.]
However, professional public relations firms and professionals (just like lawyers) are not limited to perform what jurors and witnesses are sworn to perform in a Rule of Law Trial. Jurors are sworn to judge exclusively on the facts and ignore their personal biases. Witnesses are sworn to ‘TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.’
What fraudulently passes for LEGAL ETHICS justifies the successful lawyer practice of distortion of IMPRESSIONS (by shifting emphasis of rational importance and every other trick of Sophistry).
In the world of Professional Public Relations – out-and-out dramatic lying is apparently considered Professionally Ethical. (As usual, I disagree, but I am powerless to require Honesty.) My two strangest observations at the beginning of the Gulf War were the following:
Observation 1:
One of the Public Relations ‘ADVOCATES’ hired by Kuwait invented the following atrocity story: they claimed the Iraqi military entered Hospitals in Kuwait and machine-gunned new-born babies. The press universally reported this horrific claim uncritically, widely and repetitively.
However, the Iraqi government apparently also had hired their own Public Relations firms (and or professionals) to fairly quickly overturn that particular Atrocity Story all over the Scumbag Press. (The Scumbag Press never tells the public who used them for the initial LIE. The ‘SOURCES’ remain private and confidential.
This episode was my first introduction to the reality that the Scumbag Press rarely, if ever, does a truly open-minded independent investigation (and NEVER an unbiased one). They take the side of the Professionals pushing biased claims that they agree with and favor. After all, they control the ‘PRINTING PRESSES’ and, since the Sullivan Rule SUPREME COURT ERROR, are liability-free from all legal accountability for libel and slander.
Observation 2:
I watched on CSPAN a live press conference – probably at the State Department – where the Kuwaiti representative presented his country’s victimization by the Iraqi invasion. (I don’t remember his mentioning the baby-killing atrocity story because it was already universally promoted in the Scumbag Press.)
But I do remember that when he appealed for world-wide assistance to defend his ‘Territorial Integrity’ he got one very unusual question from some curious, honest member of the press present. He was asked: would Kuwait accept assistance from the Israeli military? He immediately responded in the affirmative.
I laughed because in that era, at that time and place, that was a Major Political and Social TABOO he was accidentally violating.
(I never found a news story that ever included that interchange. Kuwaiti Public Relations Advocates would be in serious trouble if that interchange got passed the ‘accidental’ live broadcast.)
From that time forward, I developed a Skepticism about War ‘News’ (which is always distorted by Professional Propagandists).
In my 78-year lifetime, I have never encountered ongoing War News that was perfectly 100% biased (pro-Ukrainian and anti-Russian without the slightest anecdotal imperfection).
(Not even if the Almighty God fought the Devil, could God be more Favored by the Evil Scumbag Press than Ukraine has been in this war – 100% Perfect.)
Part 2 – Agencies and Money
While hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides are unnecessarily being killed and/or maimed, the profit making agency industry quietly contracts with CA’s (CELEBRITY A$$HOLES) to personally enrich themselves from the misery of common people.
There are all kinds of CA Agencies: Entertainment Industry Agencies (not limited to professional actors like the Great Zelensky); Literary Agencies (where the Great Zelensky has long since established a business relationship with a German Publishing House to publish a copy of his masterful television Addresses to the unfortunate non-voting Ukrainian Citizen victims of this unnecessary and never-ending manufactured war); and even CA Speaker Agencies where lucrative ‘Honorariums’ in the six or seven figure area are available. (The Harry Walker Agency is the biggest name – maybe even a monopoly, for all I know.)
After the Gulf War, and after losing the 1992 Presidential election, I could swear I remember reading in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times Business pages that newly ex-President George H. W. Bush was paid a then unheard of ‘Honorarium’ of either $20,000 or even $100,000 to perform one ‘Speech’ in Saudi Arabia.
(Don’t get me started on Sports Agents. The movie “Jerry McGuire,” back in the 90s, helped explain why Professional Sports no longer interest me. It is at least 50% Professional Acting instead of Competitive Sports. How surprising to discover that Sports Agents get a much higher percentage of contracted money from ‘Endorsements’ than from regular Sports contracts. I have heard that many of the bigger NBA Stars make more mega-millions from Endorsements in Communist China than from playing NBA basketball. Communist tyranny in China works very well for them!)
Must the whole world be filled with so many Narcissistic Greedy Whores who can never acquire an adequate amount of money and are always for sale to the highest bidder?
Part 3 – The Future
When this war (like all wars) finally comes to an end – CA’s will continually count and augment their wealth – and common people will be dead, maimed or otherwise worse off for it.
P.S. Don’t try to visit the then ‘Retired’ Great Zelensky in his beach-front Tuscan mansion – unless you too are a CELEBRITY A$$HOLE (with or without yet another Golden Oscar Award). He will have many ‘lawyer-friends’ or ‘politician-friends’ or ‘media (CA)-friends’ who can easily use the ‘Rule of Law’ to either confiscate your ‘free-citizen private life’ existence or coerce you to choose between that loss of liberty or an enormous LARGE DEBT of seven or eight figures in LAWYER FEES.
P.P.S. The world’s record for accumulating such abusively imposed IMMORAL FEES must be held by Donald J. Trump. When it comes to the Left-Wing Idealists (eternally on the ‘Moral High Ground’ where the ENDS always justify the MEANS by any MEANS necessary), the number one moral imperative is the destruction for all eternity of anything and anyone in the way of those NOBLE LEFT-WING IDEALS.
It is the ultimate theological anathema to the psychotic left-wing true believers that such a person or an idea not be eradicated from all human life!