Reply #2: Harley called it June 10 2002. Excellent article

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Have You Had Your Bush Outrage This Week


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He keeps increasing his own power and the scope of the federal government. Part of his technique for doing this is what I call The Outrage of the Week.

In my Outrage of the Week theory, Bush and his minions take advantage of the fact that there's only so much room on the front page.

So what the Bush people do is telescope outrages, piling one on top of the other. Before we fully digest one outrage, our attention is diverted by the next.

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And so on. One outrage is stacked upon another with such speed that the public can't keep up.
And the beat goes on ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2002/06/10/hsorensen.DTL&hw=outrage&sn=001&sc=1000