The Raw Story | Raw obtains CENTCOM email to bloggers

The Raw Story Raw obtains CENTCOM email to bloggers: "An email sent by United States Central Command (CENTCOM) to bloggers about the 'global war on terror' (GWOT) has been obtained by RAW STORY.
CENTCOM announced earlier this year that a team of employees would be '[engaging] bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information.'
The email was not addressed to RAW STORY.
'The main interest is to drive their readers to our site,' Maj. Richard J. McNorton, chief of CENTCOM 'engagement operations' said in a March release.
In the same announcement, McNorton said that the emails have a 'viral effect,' as many bloggers then link to the CENTCOM website, driving Internet news consumers to CENTCOM's Web site.
'Now [online readers] have the opportunity to read positive stories. At least the public can go there and see the whole story,' he insisted. 'The public wants to hear these good stories.'"

Think Progress » McCain Attacks Blogosphere

Think Progress » McCain Attacks Blogosphere: "McCain Attacks Blogosphere
In 2000, John McCain called Rev. Jerry Falwell an “agent of intolerance.” Yesterday, in a naked attempt to broaden his political base, McCain delivered the commencement speech at Falwell’s Liberty University.
McCain’s hypocrisy was noted on many blogs. He returned the favor in his speech at Liberty by attacking the blogosphere:
When I was a young man, I was quite infatuated with self-expression, and rightly so because, if memory conveniently serves, I was so much more eloquent, well-informed, and wiser than anyone else I knew. It seemed I understood the world and the purpose of life so much more profoundly than most people. I believed that to be especially true with many of my elders, people whose only accomplishment, as far as I could tell, was that they had been born before me, and, consequently, had suffered some number of years deprived of my insights…It’s a pity that there wasn’t a blogosphere then. I would have felt very much at home in the medium.
Oh, so McCain is always right – the problem is that we’re bloggers so we’re too impressed with ourselves to understand. If you are reading this, you are part of the blogosphere too, so you won’t understand McCain’s genius either. "