1:24:54 But the script leaked out for the reality show. That is this interview with Assad, I'm sure you saw this maybe you didn't Is it just one that you played in the last show? No no so what happened is Anonymous, oh those awesome dudes at anonymous whoever they may be apparently hacked into the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs email system and exposed emails which showed that the Assad regime is out to propagandize Americans who are so stupid that they can be manipulated by the media. So this was so mind-boggling, I want to play this report from Wolf Blitzer and what's crazy about it is here's a report
1:25:48 that is supposed to tell you that you are being manipulated By the Assad regime, but of course this is actually manipulation in itself and we're buying into it This is how stupid we are Syrian opposition group is reporting as many as a hundred and thirty seven deaths at the hands of government forces today And now we're getting a shocking inside look at how the Syrian government shocking there's allegedly Spinning the crackdown to the outside world. The source secret emails post-secret
1:26:23 Secret emails! Secret, John. They're secret. They were secret if they were secret it would be called cables the secret emails by the notorious hacking group anonymous Brian Todd is here he's working this story for us so Brian what exactly are you finding out? Well one person we know who is connected to that hacker group Anonymous says one person You mean your CIA handler? Is that who you're talking about? It could be anybody. I mean, you can say that yourself That's so funny...I'm gonna say that all the time And when i was talking to Anonymous the other day These emails appear to be authentic and if so it does not look like Bashar Assad's aides have a very high opinion of Americans
1:27:01 It's days before a big interview with an American network. Barbara Walters and Bashar al-Assad is being coached to spin this crackdown one eight rights don't talk reform Americans won't care or understand that The aide advises the Syrian president to talk about quote mistakes blame his own police American psyche can be easily manipulated when they hear that there are quote mistakes done and now we are quote fixing it So this is the point where my mind is boggling us am I really hearing a report meant to manipulate? The American people that is actually saying that someone tried to manipulate the American people. It is so mind-boggling This has taking place
1:27:42 Here's what Assad then said about the crackdown in that early December interview with ABC's Barbara Walters. This is individual and that's what I call, what I describe as individual mistakes. Okay done by the military or done by whom? We don't know everything but in some cases it was done by the police in some cases done by civilians That email on what to say was apparently from Sherzod Jafari press attaché at Syria's mission to the UN To one of Assad's press aides in Damascus The hacker group Anonymous posted the email passwords of top Syrian officials. Hackers like this one cited by Foreign Policy magazine claim to have downloaded the emails and posted them online
1:28:22 CNN has seen the emails. They appear legitimate, though we cannot independently verify their authenticity." The email apparently from Jafari advises Assad on a quote to give Syria doesn't have a policy to torture people says he can contrast that with the US and mention Abu Ghraib Referring to Assad as H E for his excellency it says at one point H E was viewed as a hero and in other times H E was the bad guy Americans love these kinds of things and get convinced by it They think that the American public is really stupid. I'll hand it out... No, they're right! They're absolutely right! You are totally right. You are totally right. But so what? You know, I mean this is like nothing... Everybody does this. I got a punchline. ... who says he was once imprisoned and tortured by the regime This is how- what they taught us at school That Americans don't know anything about the world
1:29:10 they really enslave their people, the worker has no rights. Yes! Yes yes! And in the US and they really think so They think that American is easy to fool David Kenner of Foreign Policy Magazine says the email reflects an amateurish effort to present serious case to the world What is there current media strategy? Honestly I think at this point they have lost western media They've lost United States Alright, so of course I went and looked at these so-called emails that were posted to Pastebin by Anonymous. And very interesting because if you actually read the email that was sent which
1:29:55 Here's how it starts off, hello dear comma. So I guess this person forgot to say and this by the way is coming from the Syrian Attaché at the United Nations The most corrupt organization in the world where the script was written Now i'm going to read this opening paragraph to you John and I think that you'll agree with me that something else is going on Please let me know if you need anything else. Barbara will be here on the 2nd, and the interview will be on the 4th because she's leaving on the 6th so that would give you some time to do the editing. Thank You." But this... they're just handing the script from The United Nations! This is not propaganda! This was a script that was written in collaboration with ABC News They had a meeting at The United Nations
1:30:46 And said, okay listen and this is from the person at United Nations saying Barbara's gonna be here. I guess you mean... This person means in Syria Here's the stuff you should talk about because we've already done the pre-interview and you'll have some time to edit it all together This is the stuff that's important to manipulate the American people It's a script! It's not like some big crazy conspiracy? It's just a script like everybody does and Assad is a player Like Barbara Walters is a player, well she's more of pawn but she's a player. But yet this has spun into like oh the propaganda is crazy they fooled Barbara Walters and of course we're on to this crap and just about the time that were starting to understand what was going on expose it then all of sudden lets change the news and kill Whitney Houston So I wonder why trying to find looking at some articles about some previous
1:31:48 public relations ploys by the Syrians. I'm wondering who there's obviously a there's two groups involved is that and i think the oil interest may be one of them or the gas interests whatever same thing yeah same guys who are they you know this is their taking to side this interesting because it's like a public relations battle that they've they're losing with this story because this story is a bogative story that only bogey really is designed to just make everything they do look crappy Like, they're just trying to manipulate us. They suck! They are horrible people and you know they should all die.
1:32:24 and nobody considers the you know the scripted aspect of it, the United Nations aspect or the Barbara Walter aspect. Or they're at...or the post fact..or after-the-fact editing which is considered no we can't do that even though they apparently knew it all time. This is a briefing from a PR agent here at the end of this briefing and this is something that you know Lois would give us if were to do interview key points The government's crackdown on bloody regime civil war security forces in violence Tanks the YouTube torture clips president Assad ignores the bloodshed and the help of other countries in the Arab League army defectors Robert Ford's returns to the US for security reasons Syria is an authoritarian government So these are the key points they know that They know that Barbara Walters is going to focus on And then at the end The broadcast hours and channels, and they give the whole rundown the interview will be broadcast across ABC news platforms including World News good morning America this week. I mean it's a piece
1:33:22 briefing ABC not NBC I thought I said ABC yeah ABC which mean here it is a full-length treatment across the digital space this is PR talk for ABC News this now includes Yahoo as well which means you can reach us really interesting ABC and Yahoo which means you can reach as many as 100 million people ABC News and Yahoo recently joined forces which is another reason why so many people now bring their interviews to us really This is a PR briefing. And you're right, and so what? Yeah I know so what! But there's more PR going on... I just caught this this morning on CNN. I mean CNN itself does these. Thank You. Well here's CNN playing along nicely.