Word: propagandist
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...being allowed to question them. Much of the material is familiar; the film buttresses its arguments from many TV and print sources, including Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud, and Moore's own best-seller Dude, Where's My Country? But Moore, a master propagandist and incorrigible entertainer, knows how to assemble footage in piquant ways. He precedes his section on the Patriot Act by noting that Attorney General John Ashcroft had lost his U.S. Senate seat in 2000 to a recently deceased incumbent: "Voters preferred the dead guy." He shows footage of Bush clowning...
...shek, then chairman of the Supreme National Defense Council. Neither minded that he already had a bride and a son tucked away in the provinces. In 1927 Soong and Chiang were married, and in the years that followed, Madame Chiang became her husband's interpreter, confidant and chief propagandist. Not only did she try to save his soul (by converting him from paganism to Christianity), she also helped save his life. In 1936, on an inspection tour in Xi'an, Chiang was detained by troops of disaffected warlord Zhang Xueliang. Madame Chiang flew to the rescue and challenged Zhang...
...Defense Council. Neither minded that he already had a childhood bride and a son tucked away in the provinces. In 1927, Mei-ling and Chiang were married in Shanghai by a YMCA functionary, and in the years that followed, Madame Chiang became her husband's interpreter, confidante and chief propagandist. Not only did she try to save his soul (by converting him from paganism to Christianity), she also helped save his life. In 1936, on an inspection tour in Xi'an, Chiang was detained by troops of disaffected warlord Zhang Xueliang. Mei-ling flew to the rescue and challenged Zhang...
...people dismiss as spin much of what the government says. Conservative M.P. Alan Duncan, shadow foreign minister, asked to compare Campbell's role with that of previous image makers, replies, "How much do you know about Dr. Goebbels?" and then, more seriously, says, "He's a very competent propagandist; none better. But he's lost his compass bearings on the truth. What we have seen is the sloganizing of British political debate, the reduction of all argument into positioning and language crafting." Peter Oborne, author of a judicious 1999 biography of Campbell whose attitudes have since hardened, says: "This government...
...DIED. LORD SHAWCROSS, 101, Britain's chief prosecutor of Nazis at the Nuremberg war- crimes trials; in Cowbeech, England. Shawcross also prosecuted William Joyce, a Nazi propagandist better known as Lord Haw-Haw, and Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, physicists convicted of giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. He later lamented that the Nuremberg trials didn't deter Idi Amin and Pol Pot from their own "odious crimes...