US government faked Bush news reports

[T_i_B]

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1170534,00.html

TV news reports in America that showed President George Bush getting a standing ovation from potential voters have been exposed as fake, it has emerged.

The US government admitted it paid actors to pose as journalists in video news releases sent to TV stations intending to convey support for new laws about health benefits.

Investigators are examining the film segments, in which actors pretending to be journalists praise the benefits of the new law passed last year by President Bush, to see if they could be construed as propaganda.

Two of the films are signed off by "Karen Ryan", who was an actor hired to read a script prepared by the government, according to production company Home Front Communications.

[david_vincent]

1. Orwell, we hardly knew you...

And to quote Ice-T: "Governments lie. That's what they do."

[Moderator]

2. Locking

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