The Government Accountability Office reports finding that the Bush Administration spent more than $1.6 billion in public relations and media contracts in a two and a half year span.

“The government is spending over a billion dollars per year on PR and advertising,” said Rep. Waxman. “Careful oversight of this spending is essential given the track record of the Bush Administration, which has used taxpayer dollars to fund covert propaganda within the United States.”

The Bush/Cheney cabal has been working its own Ministry of Enlightenment and Truth overtime (and over budget it seems). As Howard Beale in ‘Network’ proclaimed, “When the twelfth largest company in the world controls the most awesome, god-damned propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network.”

We seem to be getting some answers to that question these days.

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