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Faryn Balyncd

(5,125 posts)
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 04:46 PM Apr 2012

Could Romney's handlers write a BETTER SCRIPT than for FR to "attack Romney from the right"? [View all]





So Jim Robinson threatens to "not be involved" in supporting a Romney campaign. ?





And, as usual, the corporate media will take this noise from the right at face value, allowing every corporate "news" outlet to peddle the false RW meme that Romney is a "moderate", or, horror of horrors, a "liberal".


The strategy of the RW has always prioritized the false framing of Romney as a "moderate". . . . . . . . That is, in fact, the SCRIPTED ROLE, not only of Free Republic, but of the entire RW hate radio/Fox "News" machine.


The Republican RW propaganda Wurlitzer is, as we know, the most effective propaganda machine ever ginned up anywhere in the world since 1930's Europe.


And the most effective thing Free Republic and the rest of the fringe RW can do to elect Romney is to raise hell screaming the myth that Romney is a "Liberal".


It is not just that the RW haters will vote for him come November (which they will):


The much more important reality is that Jim Robinson and his fellow fringe wingers have a much BIGGER job to do for Romney RIGHT NOW:
Specifically, to attack him from the right, so that the corporate media will dutifully take the cue and continue their coverage from the FALSE PERSPECTIVE of portraying Romney as a "moderate".


Romney's corporate schemers could not have written a better script than for Free Republic to take this position.








(Actually, falsely framing Romney as a "moderate" or a "liberal" is perhaps the only way the entire campaigns of Bachman, Perry, Cain, Gingrich, and Santorum makes sense, or to make sense of Sheldon Adelson pouring $15 million into an already braindead Gingrich "campaign".)




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