The Rendon Group -- Randi's Talking About This Rolling Stone Article.....

[global1]

here's the link:

(note: I don't know how to post the link so I'll type it in)

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?rnd=1132425200736& has-player=true

If this link don't work - google "The Rendon Group" and you'll find the link

[damntexdem]

1. I wouldn't know. KXEB, the Dallas area's so-called AAR station ...

has replaced Randi by Ed Schultz in the afternoons. They originally said they'd broadcast Randi on tape delay in the evening, but now they are apparently dropping her. They're also messing with the morning lineup. At least Al Franken is still on, for the moment. Still, for much of the day, I guess it's back to NPR.

[Donna Zen]

2. A little snip from Bamford's book:

A Pretext For War (295-297)

Rendon Corporation:

The firm is headed by John W. Rendon, a rumpled man often seen in a beret and military fatigues, who calls himself “an information warrior and a perception manager.” Its specialty is manipulating thought and spreading propaganda...Soon after the attacks of September 11, the company received a $100,000 a month contract from the Pentagon to offer media strategy advice. Among the agencies to whom it provided recommendations was the Orwellian-sounding Office of Strategic Influence, another Feith creation...The Rendon Group has taken in a great deal of cash vilifying Saddam Hussein...The entire story may have been little more than a U.S.-sponsored psychological warfare effort--The Rendon Group’s specialty--to gin up the the American public’s fear over Saddam Hussein. If so, it would have been illegal under U.S. law, which forbids the use of taxpayer money to propagandize the American public. “I think what you’re seeing,” said Ritter, “is the need for the United States government to turn to commercial enterprises like The Rendon Group to do the kind of lying and distortion of truth in terms of peddling disinformation to the media that the government normally can’t do for itself.”

^^^^^^^

BTW, these guys will never be investigated although they are far worse than Armstrong Williams. I believe it is out of fear of retaliation, or because they work both sides of the aisle.

For some unknown reason, I can no longer stream AAR...it's driving me wild.

[radio4progressives]

3. you're not missing much.. just a lot of shilling going on the air

except for a few, i can hardly stand to listen to AAR anymore. Randi is rediculous in her cherry picking the truth about any damn thing -and she loves to her own voice - can't even let another intelligent human being who agrees with her speak long enough to put the point more coherently.

guess I'm spoiled with democracynow! and other Pacifica programs, like Guns and Butter.

Although i really like Mike Malloy and i can hear Thom Hartmann on my local AM station - which is cool.

But Al Franken is pathetic, like his guests, but they never get a word in edge wise - I can't listen to a so called lefty Limbaugh type that Ed Schutz tries so hard to sound like. yuk - that whine just drives me insane when he starts that crap, i have to tune the radio off.


On the Rendon Group, one really needs to go their website and check out their operation - its freaking sickening that these are the behind the scenes puppet masters running our foreign and domestic policies.

[Donna Zen]

4. Do you get the feeling that Rendon

...could ruin anyone who suggested investigating them? Using taxpayer money to propagandize the taxpayers. Just seeing the article in RollingStone was like a miracle.

Shadow Cash Clowns...symbol of our nation.