UPDATE: NPR story highlights the White House spin cycle surrounding combat brigades in Iraq.

Just how gullible must we seem? Do you ever wonder just how credulous and dupable the press and our politicians believe us to be? As they serve up the sound-bite-du-jour, do you think maybe they chuckle to themselves, amazed  at both their own audacity and just how truly naive we are? Even as they stare us right in the face, handing out one line of BS after another.

Notwithstanding, Olbermann and Maddow, the made-for-NBC-TV withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and the spin of President Obama, we still have 50,000 troops in country. What pull out? Where? How gullible do we appear?

Some great writers and media outlets have called the scam out on the carpet. Huffington Post is running AP’s refusal to cave and report the White House whitewash. Gilbert Mercier over at News Junkie Post is keeping it real as is Glenn Greenwald at Salon, just to name a few.

For the rest of the face plates in the media, what part of 50,000 troops don’t you get?

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