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Cliff Arnebeck

(305 posts)
22. Rove's 2014 potion: Character assassination, Unlimited commercial propaganda & Avoid debates
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 12:03 PM
Nov 2014

Always good to hear from you. I am looking forward to what our experts say about electronic red shifting of votes in this election. My impression was that the DOJ monitoring for that would have shut most of it down for this election.

Rove's strategy, it appeared to me, was a combination of: 1) dirty trick character assassination of Democratic candidates and President Obama by covert manipulation of the main stream media, 2) carpet bombing propaganda advertising defaming Democratic candidates and extolling the virtues of Republicans and 3) degrading and abandoning the tradition of civil debate between candidates in elections and thereby avoiding their potential equalizing/counter-balancing effect on the preponderate commercial ads of the Republican candidates. That is what did the trick in Ohio this cycle, as best I can tell at this point.

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Thanks for posting this, and for your tireless work. emulatorloo Nov 2014 #1
Good stuff Cliff. I'm a fan. nt stevenleser Nov 2014 #2
Thanks for your good work Cliff Arnebeck Nov 2014 #7
Thanx for posting Botany Nov 2014 #3
They did. The Repubs blocked action, so the facts came out in a book. riqster Nov 2014 #5
More than one and more on the way Cliff Arnebeck Nov 2014 #9
True. Bits and bobs of the story keep coming out. riqster Nov 2014 #12
Also see Bobby Kennedy's "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" Cliff Arnebeck Nov 2014 #16
It's good work, a real clarion call. Thanks for the reminder! riqster Nov 2014 #17
I read it and I lived too in 2004 in Ohio Botany Nov 2014 #19
We can! Cliff Arnebeck Nov 2014 #8
Sure tons of evidence Botany Nov 2014 #20
I voted this morning and have one machine and we can either use the machine or use a paper ballot. jwirr Nov 2014 #4
Voted this morning, in Central California on paper. onecaliberal Nov 2014 #6
thank you thank you thank you! renate Nov 2014 #10
Exuberant optimism Cliff Arnebeck Nov 2014 #14
Should we be hopeful? marions ghost Nov 2014 #11
Yes in regard to vote count rigging, but the propaganda is out of control. Cliff Arnebeck Nov 2014 #13
I read that somewhere the other day.. thank you for posting it here, CA. Cha Nov 2014 #15
Here's hoping it scared Husted. riqster Nov 2014 #18
Thanks for your continuing good work Fly by night Nov 2014 #21
Rove's 2014 potion: Character assassination, Unlimited commercial propaganda & Avoid debates Cliff Arnebeck Nov 2014 #22
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