Kerry campaign advisors have been hiding their campaign connections and pretending to be neutral reviewers and commentators in the mass media. The campaign of deception represents a new low in media manipulation.

The liberal icon The New Republic is following a story we reported on weeks ago. They report that the New York Times was forced to admit that they published a glowing review of an anti—Bush book on foreign affairs by an anything but neutral book reviewer, Charles Kupchan.

Kupchan and the New York Times never disclosed that Kupchan is officially working for the Kerry campaign as  a foreign policy adviser. To quote the New Republic,

Kupchan is one of many Kerry foreign policy advisers who, publicly at least, decline to bill themselves as Kerry foreign policy advisors. They fail to do so even though they have signed formal agreements with the Kerry campaign making them exactly that, even though they chair or belong to the campaign's policy teams, and even though, in many cases, they act as its surrogates." 
 
How many other Kerry acolytes and employees have put on their Halloween masks to masquerade as independent "experts", "reviewers" and critics? Well, the New Republic has outed one of them — Shibley Telhami — who doubles as a coordinator of Kerry's Middle East team. Telhami wrote an anti—Bush screed in the Baltimore Sun without revealing he was working for Kerry. As the Center for Public Integrity's Bill Allison points out,

"if you signed on to a campaign, even in an unpaid capacity and you don't disclose your affiliation when writing about campaign issues, you're misleading the public."

Hmmm...the Kerry campaign..misleading the public? As john Kerry would say " Sacre bleu!"

Ed Lasky   10 08 04