"The President is a liar..."

[realFedUp]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

Monday, November 14, 2005

Rinse And Repeat

It is vitally important to distinguish between the methods used to establish that a fact is a fact and the tactics used to persuade the larger public to accept that fact. They are not one and the same.

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That is the tactical problem that many of us* have faced since the fall of 2000, when Bush's Texas-sized lies and distortions went global and the American people, bless their trusting hearts, fell for 'em. Reason, ultimately, is not that effective on people whose brains have been set to refuse admittance to reality. Sooner or later, you need to follow a variation of Sean-Paul's intelligent advice:
The President is a liar. The Democrats did not have the same intelligence as the White House did.

And that's all any Democrat has to say. Don't try to explain it. Don't let the Republicans misdirect you into the details or distract you in any way. Just keep hammering the same line over and over and over because the public already knows it's true: The President is misleading the American people. The Democrats did not have the same intelligence as the White House did.

Rinse and repeat all the way to 2006.

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[Cassandra]

1. I was just enjoying that piece...

and I think he has a point. Reason doesn't work right now, even with people you know are otherwise intelligent.

[realFedUp]

2. keep it simple...

for the sheeple.

[abluelady]

3. Thanks for the link

I needed that article. I argue and argue and argue until I'm blue in the face and achieve nothing. What an easy way to make a difference.

[Village Idiot]

4. ATRIOS said it best:

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2005_11_06_atrios_archive.html#113174082911133773

"I think that the recently statements of Stephen Hadley are really all we need to put the final nail in the coffin of the Bush adminsitration's credibility on anything. These people are just quite literally loathsome.

Hadley argues that Democrats had the same intelligence because "parts of" the NIE "had been made public."

Right, and the parts of the NIE which weren't made public were the parts which suggested that the parts which were made public were full of shit.

Any talking head who overlooks this fact to try to claim that "democrats had the same intelligence as Republicans" is just completely full of shit. They only the had the bits that made their case, not the bits which took away from it."

[realFedUp]

5. kick coz I can. nt

[kentuck]

6. Yes....he....is...

a LIAR.