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Edited on Tue Jun-29-04 11:03 AM by tom_paine
LIEEEE #1:
For instance, in one often-showed clip, Moore claims that President Bush was on vacation 42 percent of the time during his first several months in office — but that estimation included weekends at Camp David, a common practice for presidents. Without those days figured in, Bush actually spent 13 percent of his time on vacation.
This is a customary Orwellian Bushevik Lie which combines deceptiveness and omission. They dispute the 42% number. "Weekends at Camp David" a common practice. How often? How does the Bush total of 42% compare with other Presidents when factoring in their weekends at Campd David? Naturally, these inconvenient facts are omitted. The issue is presented without context, which Markerting People, Advcertising People, and Psychomanipulators KNOW is a good way to deceive people, particularly if they are passive and uninquisitive.
This is a technique often used in PR Propaganda. The more gullible and without historical referent a people are, the easier this sort of deceptive/evasive lie is to innoculate.
MISSING BALANCE: (the usual Faux "news" practice. Only one side heard from. Congressman Lee Hamilton has been cleaning up Imperial Family messes since he helped Shrubya get away with his Harken stock pilferage (identical to what Martha Stewart did) in 1991 as head of Poppy Augustus' Federal Trade Commission. naturally, finding a Zell Miller who has been polishing Bush boots is so worthwhile, a good PR Man knows that it is EASY to avoid printing an "opposing viewpoint" because this is erroneously presented AS AN OPPOSING VIEWPOINT.
LIEEEE #2: Deception in Plain Sight
In "Fahrenheit 9/11" (search) Moore also claims that the White House approved plans for planes to pick up relatives of Usama Bin Laden right after the attacks. But according to terrorism czar Richard Clarke (search), he alone approved the Saudi flights.
This one is quite brazen in it's telling. Very common these days when Orwellianism and PR are almost one and the same. At the time, Richard Clark was an officer of the White House national Security Team. Even IF, Clarke alone authorized these flights, the statemnt stands quite firm. If Moore had said "Bush approved..." or even the "Inner Circle approved..." the statement would be untrue.
For those who think this is Parsing, I might remind them (many have forgot basic history andhistory is, as Orwell predicted it would become, is malleable and to many is what comes out fo the TV that morning) how the term "Authorized by the White House" used to be used during the Days of the Old Republic.
Of course, it could be MUCH simpler. Faux just could be lying about what Clarke said. They've done it before. Hell, a Florida court ruled Faux could lie whenever they wished. Don't think they aren't using this new "Imperial Legal Protection" every single day.
LIEEEE #3: The "interviews"
This is a fabricated straw man. If Faux had seen the film, they would know that what was mentioned was that the Bin Laden's were given "cursory exit interviews". They probably did see it but choose to lie because the Imperial Judiciary ruled they can now lie and not fear repercussions.
So, yes, 22 of 26 Bin Ladens were given a cursory exit interview (which is mentioned). Yes, and very cursory. Were they asked about the 9-11 crimes in depths that such an investigation would require for any criminals ("have you seen your brother lately? Did he say anythign to you the last time you saw him?")? Of course not.
Just another PR Lie VERY SKILLFULLY TOLD, knocking down a straw man which doesn't even really exist.
LIEEEE #4: The Clenis
Yes, it was Clinton's Penis which invited the Taliban. No, no it was UNOCAL! And the fact that the Chimperor* is GOOD FRIENDS with UNOCAL or Hamid Karzai is ex-UNOCAL is, of course, not mentioned.
Denying context in order to deceive has been a Key Compenent in Totalitarian Propaganda since the days when Prescott Bush was Hitler's Angel, and laundering all that Jewish Money for his old Nazi Pals.
Down the Memroy Hole.
The bottom line to all of this is that Modern Propaganda Techniques, practiced by the Bushevik Sub-Media and more familiar to Soviets and Nazis than it was to our forefathers, is brilliant and advanced to a level Orwell could only dream of. I am not ceratin that this progress in Psychomanipulation combined with the survellience and modelling capabilities of computers, makes it impossible for Amerika to ever be free again.
The Science of Lying has never been so accurate and calibrated. The Bushevik Party-Loyal Sub-Media uses this "progress" as Goebbels did, except MUCH more efficiently and successfully.
We shall see. I am certainly working as hard as I can to make the slim chance that it will not be so come true.
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