http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/159
Sep 6 2006
GOP Strategy: Stay The Wrong Course!
by Otto OKeefe
You know the dam's crumbling when President Peevish W. Fratboy says
"Nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were
ordered by Iraq."
Whoa!
According to Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propaganda whiz kid and author of
the neocon playbook, the Big Lie Rule is "If you tell a lie big enough
and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Nazi Germany didn't have "the internets" to give voice to those
mentally alert citizens who recognized what was really going on.
We are lucky that we were born in a time that does give us this
resource, and that it is still too new a technology for our
plutocratic regime to have yet figured out a way to muzzle it, the way
they muzzled the mainstream media.
In 1930s Germany, the repetition of a Big Lie served to cement it
firmly in place.
But in the U.S. in the 2000s, thanks largely to tireless bloggers on
the internets, White House/Fock Snooze lie-repetition has brought
about an unintended tidal effect, slowly eroding rather than edifying
the Administration's seawall of lies.
Goebbels didn't write a corollary to the Big Lie Rule, because he
never had to.
That leaves Herr Turdblossom in uncharted territory.
He has to figure out the Big Lie Corollary on his own.
And the best he can come up with is:
"What? We never said that."
Pathetic.
And have you picked up on the theme of the latest GOP spin on the
tired old "Stay the Course" talking points?
Basically, it's this:
"We Got Us Into This Mess. Only We Can Keep Us There."
The GOP midterm election strategy is to deflect attention from the
administration's mendacity in concocting grounds for the invasion of
Iraq, and its abject failure in carrying out an occupation that was,
after all, the real objective.
And in this, the best they can come up with is:
"the Democrats don't have a plan."
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In other words, the Republicans are in charge but they're not in
charge. Makes sense, eh?
Harry
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