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Media Hagiography and the First Iraq War Lies
from Dead President with Russ Baker · #125
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3 minGuest
Baker explains the media's reluctance to criticize dead presidents and details the fabricated incubator story used to justify the first Gulf War, comparing the media's kid-glove treatment of Bush to how they'd treat Obama.
- 7:57First Iraq War incubator lie: the fake testimony that drove American support for the invasion
- 8:37The supposed nurse was actually a Kuwaiti princess paid to fabricate the story about soldiers throwing babies from incubators
- 8:48Tim notes Obama would never have survived politically if caught orchestrating such propaganda
- 9:05The question of where these operatives and families actually come from—their deeper history and origins
- 9:38His ancestors included someone forced to walk the plank by pirates and someone burned at the stake as a witch