First, it was revealed that the Bush administration was using the Social Security administration as part of its message machine to destroy Social Security.

Next, seven "journalists" were identified as either being on the payroll of the Bush administration barely arms-length ally like Talon News while simultaneously appearing in print or broadcast forums that purport to be real news.

And then it came out that every single government agency in the Bush administration produced fake news reports that do not acknowledge they were produced by the government.

Later, there was the terrorism report that was doctored, and then abandoned.

Of course there were also the doctored reports on Cattle-Grazing, Hog Famring, Air Quality at Ground Zero, Toxicology of Mercury, Effect of Drilling in the Artic Refuge, Climate Change, Effectiveness of Condoms, Abortion, HIV / AIDS, Cancer, Stem Cell Research and Ground Water.

Don't forget, the fixing of evidence to support the case for war.

Also, there is this stuff too:

The pre-fab "Ask President Bush" town hall-style meetings held during last year's campaign (typical question: "Mr. President, as a child, how can I help you get votes?") were carefully designed for television so that, as Kenneth R. Bazinet wrote last summer in New York's Daily News, "unsuspecting viewers" tuning in their local news might get the false impression they were "watching a completely open forum." A Pentagon Office of Strategic Influence, intended to provide propagandistic news items, some of them possibly false, to foreign news media was shut down in 2002 when it became an embarrassing political liability. But much more quietly, another Pentagon propaganda arm, the Pentagon Channel, has recently been added as a free channel for American viewers of the Dish Network. Can a Social Security Channel be far behind?

It is a brilliant strategy. When the Bush administration isn't using taxpayers' money to buy its own fake news, it does everything it can to shut out and pillory real reporters who might tell Americans what is happening in what is, at least in theory, their own government. Paul Farhi of The Washington Post discovered that even at an inaugural ball he was assigned "minders" - attractive women who wouldn't give him their full names - to let the revelers know that Big Brother was watching should they be tempted to say anything remotely off message.

Nary a stone of reality is left unturned by the Bush administration. This propaganda machine is so extensive, that comparisons to previous administrations are woefully inaccurate. This is the stuff of ideological one-party states.