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(490 posts)This is how Karl Rove played the media and they assume we do the same thing. Remember when Bush was going to make a state visit to the UK and there were going to be so many protesters, something on the order of 3 million, that they couldn't actually drive him to Buckingham Palace, they had to take him there by helicopter from the airport? It was going to be a public relations nightmare. The level of opposition to Bush and Poodle Boy's war of aggression was going to be inescapable. Suddenly Michael Jackson was arrested. There was no reason that arrest had to take place when it did. I'm sure someone on the GOP team chambered that one up for Karl to use whenever he thought he needed it. So, the enter state visit disappeared from mainstream media coverage. Of course the media was a partner in this dance. They know which side of the bread, in the form of media deregulation, their butter is on. So the right assumes we manipulate the media in the same fashion they do. If there's something coming you need to hide, provide a distraction. Find big events that will provide media cover which you can control the timing on. The Bush administration used this trick again and again to great advantage.