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An Exposé of “Blackwater”, a Book Written With a Leftist Agenda

By Jeff “Mario” Smith

Guerilla Reporter

Reading is an excellent pastime, surely much better than watching the television, a dumbing down mechanism if ever there was one. Entertainment is a multi-billion dollar industry in this country, and much of it is used as a tool of propaganda. I give you Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Oliver Stone, Rob Reiner, and George Cloony as some perfect examples of entertainment as propaganda.

Entertainment is expected in our society now, so much so that even the “news”, which I would argue is largely propaganda as well, has to be given to the sheeple as entertainment packaged in current music, sound effects, opinions from entertainers of all things, and pop culture buzz words.

Recently, I received an email from a friend, who is admittedly a Christian Conservative, which details some of the overt problems with the book “Blackwater” by Jeremy Scahill. I have to admit that Scahill is a good writer who can grab your interest and has an excellent command of the English language, but his association with the publication, “The Nation” is called out in this “laymen’s book review” and makes the book suspect from the start. And I would have to agree that any book using Michael Moore’s opinion on the back cover is surely a bad sign. A read of the preface alone reveals that Scahill has an agenda, and this book, which could have been a good “study” of the private contracting in war debate, quickly becomes just another in a long line of leftist hit pieces.

Read this amateur review and scan the book the next time you are in a book store. I would not recommend buying a copy so not as to fund any more liberalism; we surely have too much of that already. As Dr. Michael Savage so aptly states, “Liberalism is a mental disorder.” It may not have started out that way, but it sure is a mental disorder now.

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