The truth about Rove is: Avoid the truth
Here's a message to the Bushling message machine: The press may want to control the message now that it's found a little courage. How long can our "free" press stand up to the withering assault?
We don't know. WaPo's Eugene Robinson thinks there's a line that shouldn't be crossed by Bush. I can't tell if he thinks Bush can be stopped.
A WaPo editorial speaks to the Bushling habit of lying about greenhouse gases and efforts to lowering them. Just like the WMD claims, the Bushlings have rarely relied on the truth.
Since the truth hasn't worked in Iraq, the Pentagon works to alter that, too. It's called Information Operations. Used to be called propaganda.
If you see a pattern, find a way to counter it. Letters to editors, anyone?
Besides mastering the craft of taking the 35% who would follow any Christian conservative to the gates of hell, Rove discovered you can capture the other required 16% by a constant assault on the truth.
That's the New Normal in action. Let's forge an alternative theory of the politcal universe and create and sustain a healthier Normal where the truth means something again and the 35% of the nation who are poised at the gates of hell might stay there, marginalized as they ought to be.
BTW, I always meant to introduce my theory of the 35% earlier, but I'll flesh it out in another post.
1 Comments:
I think you hit the nail on the head, here, when you used the word "healthier" in connection with recovering the common semantic space from the practitioners of propaganda and "information operations".
"Health" is the revolutionary principle of the future. Other words for "health", though, are "integral", "whole" and "holistic" (but also "holy"). The shift from self-interest as universal principle to well-being as universal principle is the secret to recapturing "the new normal" -- the shift from social security, national security, to human security (a more global concept).
Keep up the fight!
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