Unmasking October Surprise ‘Debunker’
Robert Parry - October 30, 2011
In another blow to the crumbling cover-up surrounding Ronald Reagan’s secret dealings with Iran during the 1980 presidential campaign, a key “journalist” who “debunked” the October Surprise allegations in the early 1990s has now been identified by a recent study as a member of a right-wing “misinformation” network.
Entitled “Fear, Inc.,” the 129-page report by the Center for American Progress lists Steven Emerson as one of five “scholars” who act as “misinformation experts” to “generate the false facts and materials” that are then exploited by politicians and pundits to frighten Americans about the supposed threat posed by Muslims.
The report offers a rare glimpse into the right-wing propaganda network that has exploited America’s post-9/11 hysteria and transformed those fears into a powerful political movement to get millions of Christians and Jews to support legislation and policies that target Muslims and their communities.
But the historical significance of noting Emerson’s role in this “Islamophobia network” is that he is revealed to be a propagandist willing to distort information for ideological ends, not the serious journalist that he successfully posed as during the 1980s and 1990s.
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December 10th, 2011 at 5:55 am
When a report starts with trigger words like “right-wing”, “Republicans”, “Neo-Nazi”, “Islamophobia” etc., it exposes the writer’s real bias. Real “misinformation” does not solely reside in one political party in America. Any report that tries to persuade the reader to believe so, as this report surely does, makes the entire report suspect. The information contained in this report “may” be correct but because the bias is so evident, it resembles nothing more than “left-wing” “counter-disinformation”.
Sorry people, first time reader of this website, also probably the last. I want the real “Truth”, not the obvious one-sided “truth” this article exposes!
December 18th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
@ Tim R.
You are so right on…I, too, am a first time reader and this article just smells funny. yuk…over and out