Both Bush team, artist Eminem share media hype

To the editor:

I've noticed a strong parallel in the media regarding the Bush team's push for war and an emerging media respect for the rap artist Eminem. President Bush and his team blitz the media with exaggerations, distortions and scaremongering. Eminem is promoted in print and broadcast media by respectable commentators as brutally honest, relevant, cathartic and even important as an artist.

Both Eminem and the Bush team are energetic, creative and in-your-face. But deep down we know or at least suspect we're being lied to.

We know other motives such as corporate profit are the unspoken impetus behind the message. Already we see surging energy prices and higher profit for the oil corporations to which Bush and Vice President Cheney are so intimately connected. Well-connected military contractors are reaping huge profits even in the current buildup to war.

Hard-earned dollars of the many are being siphoned into the hands of the corporate few. Some media messages deserve closer scrutiny.

Hitler said the biggest of lies will be accepted if repeated loudly and persistently.

ROBERT EDWARDS

Cape Girardeau