You have got to feel sorry for Julia. Someone in the US Administration - probably Biden or maybe even Clinton rang to tell her what *illegal SOB's* Julian Assange and Wikileaks were. It must be a bit of a shock when the big red phone rings Virginia.
And wanting to impress her masters she immediately called a press conference and announced that what Assange and Wikileaks had done was *illegal* and blah, blah, blah.
Now the US Administration is on fairly solid ground - because their government and right wing press run an amazingly effective *patriot* programme that just about every citizen supports. Mention the words *United States* *war* and *patriot* in the same sentence and they go all teary eyed and start saluting. Even the families of dead soldiers regularly stand up and tell the world how proud they are of their sons and daughters - who died in the service of a "big right wing war monger that is addicted to other people's resources".
They usually don't say the last bit ;-) It's also why they all have a copy of the US flag flying at their house, tie yellow ribbons around everything, have a pistol under their pillow and a shotgun in their truck and think that Oprah is Ms God reincarnated.
Anyway, fast forward to today's Essential Report and you will find that the US and OZ are totally out of sync with regard to Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
Most Australians support the release of the Wikileaks cables, think that Julian Assange should receive legal support, and are critical of the government's statements on the issue.
It's different in the US.
Because over there the government is much more sophisticated in their manipulation of public opinion. They don't shoot from the lip - they make sure that they have geed up the population first with mention of *war* and *patriot* etc - and then they send the Vice President out to talk absolute crap.
Julia needs to learn how it is done - I think I can feel a trip to the US coming up.
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