"...we don't have much tolerance for too many facts or too much information."

[babylonsister]

:wtf:

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/10/30/quote_of_the_day.html

October 30, 2011

Quote of the Day


"Our team wants someone authentic, creative, fresh, bold and likeable. And we don't have much tolerance for too many facts or too much information. In politics, a bumper sticker always beats an essay."

-- Republican strategist Ed Rogers, writing in the Washington Post, on the psychology of GOP activists.

[baldguy]

1. Because the GOP thinks people are stupid.

[hobbit709]

2. They don't think it, they're pretty sure of it.

[CanonRay]

8. Because GOP people ARE stupid

the vast majority of them, anyway.

[Ship of Fools]

3. I second #1 & #2, and will add that their actual candidates are pretty vacuous as well.

Always knew the "sound bite" would come around and bite us in the ass. Thank you, Prez Reagan ... He wasn't the very first to do so, of course, but who can EVER forget: (heh heh heh) "There he goes again." (heh heh). The beginning of the dumb-down, non? :)

[WinkyDink]

4. As Obama said to Hampton U. grads:

"And meanwhile, you’re coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don’t always rank that high on the truth meter. And with iPods and iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- (laughter) -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-hampton-university-commencement
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Pot, meet kettle. (P.S. He had plenty of time to compose this speech. If he meant to say "chatter" or "blather" and not "information," he would have.)

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[Scuba]

6. Especially effective when you can make up your own facts, e.g., "Social Security is broke".

[LonePirate]

7. I wonder if he was misquoted since Republicans detest any and all facts and information.

[starroute]

9. That's Ed Rogers of Barbour, Griffith and Rogers

Former partner of Haley Barbour, the one-time RNC chair and current governor of Mississippi who's at the center of the post-Citizens United money machine:

Barbour's own presidential ambitions fizzled last winter, so he seems to have turned kingmaker instead. And when Rogers says "our team," he doesn't just mean "us Republicans" -- he means "we who are looking for a plausible candidate that will enable us to buy the election."