Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters for America and author of Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush, discusses the Pentagon’s army of retired generals sent out to disseminate the war party’s propaganda, how the corporate media failed to promote alternative viewpoints to the invasion, the power and danger of “groupthink,” and John McCain’s free-ride from the media.

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Eric Boehlert is senior fellow at Media Matters for America, a former senior writer for Salon and author of Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over for Bush.

Phil Donahue, American media personality and former talk show host, discusses his new movie, Body of War, the challenges of disabled Iraq war veterans, the media’s coverage of the Iraq war, the sanitization and marketing of the Iraq war by the Bush administration, the status of dissent in America, the debate of the Iraq war in Congress, the spending of the Iraq war, the loss of civil liberties, war profiteering, the timing of the Iraq war resolution in Congress and the impossibility of supporting both the war and the troops.

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Phil Donahue is an American media personality, writer, and best known as the creator and star of The Phil Donahue Show, which ran for 26 years.Donahue hosted a talk show on MSNBC from 2002-2003. Donahue served as executive producer for the documentary, Body of War.