by Mark Silva
When President Barack Obama addressed the Muslim world from Cairo this week, more than 20,000 people outside the U.S. received free text messages about his speech.
A deputy national security adviser, Denis McDonough, said today that the State Department's free message program helped spread the president's message of engagement to nations with predominantly Muslim populations.
The messages were available in Arabic, Persian, Urdu and English.
A tech-savvy White House sought to reinforce Obama's message in every way possible, including distributing a transcript in 13 other languages. Aides also worked on Twitter and Facebook to reinforce the message delivered from Cairo University.
The text-messaging service was not available in the United States, however, because law forbids the use of taxpayer dollars domestically for the dissemination of propaganda.
The AP contributed to this report.
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"The text-messaging service was not available in the United States, however, because law forbids the use of taxpayer dollars domestically for the dissemination of propaganda."
Fortunately, we have The Swamp and the rest of the Obama Press ready and willing to spread the Obama propaganda.
Posted by: Bruce | June 6, 2009 8:58 PM
Coincidentally, after September 11, the US Department of State, created multi-million dollar propaganda to match: including Web, pamphlets, satellite TV and commercials, and included FM radio designed to help spread the good word about a one state solution in the Middle East. Bruce patriotically pointed out. That the Muslim world has poor reception, and sits bereft of Western treasures like dreaded mass media technology. Invading Iran will only help.
Posted by: The other | June 6, 2009 9:19 PM