Catapult the Truth: Bush Has Failed in Fighting Terror
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
The Busheviks believe that if you state a lie over and over again it becomes the truth.
Cheney is the best illustration of this, but Rumsfeld and Bush are right up there.
In fact, as has been noted before, Bush told some school children (his peer group, so to speak) that his role as President was to repeat the same message over and over again to "catapult the propaganda." (The full quotation is ""See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." You can listen to Bush say it here, as he did on May 24, 2005 to middle and high school students in Rochester, New York.)
Of course the truth to Bush is the truth as he sees it, or as Dick Cheney tells him it is. For them the truth becomes determined by the unrelenting drumbeat of a series of lies. Lies become the truth.
War is peace; peace is war.
Increasing the Number of Terrorists is Fighting a War on Terrorists.
Failure is success; success is failure.
If you have any doubt about the effectiveness of the GOP's ability to "catapult the propaganda," just think about the recent polling results that indicate 50% of Americans still think weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq.
The number of the misled sheeple had gone down, but Rick Santorum, in a Bushevik "catapulting of propaganda," held a timely diversionary news conference to announce that useless chemicals found in Iraq were actually "discovered" weapons of mass destruction.
The mainstream media -- television, radio and print -- gave prominent headlines to Santorum's lie (almost certainly supplied and planned by Rove's operation) that these chemicals were viable weapons of mass destruction. The disproof of Santorum's claim hardly made the news, if at all, a couple of days later.
As a result (and Rove knows it is the initial false claim -- lie -- that sticks in the minds of at least half of Americans who receive virtually all their news from headlines), the ludicrous assertion that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq is considered truth by half of the residents of our nation!
To those progressives who disdain the mainstream media, you disdain it at a serious cost to restoring democracy. "Catapulting the propaganda" works in the absence of a media counterforce that conveys the truth as headlines, not the propaganda. Television is the particularly pernicious conveyor of propaganda in the form of news headlines. Right-wing radio is a close second, particularly in rural areas. The news wire services follow up in third place. Then comes the mainstream newspapers that print the wire service stories.
Mastering the issues is insufficient. We need the media outlets to convey the truth.
Nonetheless, we make our small BuzzFlash contribution by repeating this message once again: Bush has failed America in fighting terrorism and, therefore, has put this nation at great risk.
From his childish dismissal of a CIA intelligence warning in August of 2001 that bin Laden was determined to dtrike in the U.S., to his failure to capture bin Laden, to his failed war on nation states instead of terrorists, Bush has put America's national security in peril.
He has underfunded and mis-allocated funds for "homeland security," most recently adopting a politically-driven allocation of "homeland security" money. This is the infamous "Homeland Security Department" grant report that found that Indiana had the highest number of potential terrorist targets in the United States.
Bush's entire war on terror is like someone who is playing the carnival game where, with a mallet, you try to hit clowns that pop up, only Bush is always hitting the wrong clowns.
His is a faux "war on terrorism" that is part petulance, part arrogance, part juvenile arrestment, part neo-con desire to control natural resources (as in oil), part "master of the universe" syndrome – and all partisan politics.
Whatever it is, it is not a successful war on terrorism.
To "catapult" the truth, it is a war that creates more terrorism.
Osama bin Laden, Iran, and Hezbollah couldn't ask for a better recruiter for them than George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are being egregiously misspent to recruit terrorists. That’s the reality.
As we have said before, there is an old axiom that a fool is someone who keeps doing the same thing over and over again, failing over and over again, but continues doing it, expecting a different result.
And a fool is a danger to the national security of the United States.
There’s a truth to catapult into a headline, if only the mainstream media were willing to report the truth – and not the propaganda.
A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
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Further, the story, first linked on Buzzflash two hours ago, has moved Joe Lieberman much closer to losing his credentials as a Democrat than all the whining about the failure of Senate Democrats to grow a "spine" by people who use the bottom of theirs mostly to sit on in front of a keyboard.
Three cheers to the old style lefties who remember how get out from behind the PCs and into the streets.
I gotta give them all the credit in the world because I'm a tired old bastard myself who mostly sits on the bottom of his busted up spine in front of a keyboard. -Steve
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Between now and the November elections there will almost certainly be another terrorist attack of the "false flag" variety -- where agents of a government attack its own citizens in order to terrify them into submission.
I don't have a crystal ball, but my guess would be a nuclear event, a dirty bomb or an explosion, in a major city. They'll instantly blame it on Iran (just as they instantly blamed it on Osama bin Laden, who denied any involvement in 9/11 the day after it happened, and they've still got no hard proof because the FBI doesn't list 9/11 among the crimes he's wanted for), and use it as an excuse for airstrikes against Iran, perhaps nuclear as well.
I hope, and pray, that I'm wrong. But these days feel like the calm before a terrible storm.
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The Power of Repetition
Bush is tactically correct about the power of repetition. He is stupid (or perhaps incurious would be a better word) about most things, but not about political campaigns. His entire administration has been a brutally cynical—and brutally effective—political campaign.
The tragedy of the netroots is that we spend time attacking the Democratic leadership and attempting to outdo them in inventing better slogans and "frames." Repeating the existing few ones, like "rubber-stamp Republicans," would take back the Congress. Any slogan improves with repetition; a better is a worse one if no hears it, and it has to be heard six times to be heard once.
Taking back Congress--even one body--would be the first step in exposing the truth about, among other things, Homeland Security's failed response to Katrina. Katrina and 9/11 were perhaps the Administration's most terrifying failed responses to terrifying events. They hit close to close to home, in more ways than one.
We need Waxman and others like him with subpoena power, not just press releases. We need committee chairman because, as good as they are, Spike Lee and Michael Moore won’t get the job done.
Yes, Like Hitler, Bush is a propagandist. So what else is new?
-Steve
Netroots Opportunity Target
This is increasingly off-topic, but it goes to cracking the GOP stranglehold on the press.
I feel strongly that bitching about Bush and the DC Democrats is much less valuable than doing something on the ground. Even freeway blogging counts for more.
If I understand this Buzzflash cited article:
http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2006/08/city_asked_to_u.php
there is an opportunity in every county in CT to raise holy hell with the Lieberman Campaign, giving it dozens of fires to try to put out.
So if you know anyone in CT, send email with the relevant links asking them to do a buck-and-wing dance down to the Registrar of Voters and start lobbying their local Democratic committee to get JoeMentum defrocked.
Bush's propaganda machine depends upon his lock on the national media, and the best chance of breaking that lock is to bubble a story up from the local media. This minutes-old story seems already to be rolling across CT via the AP and will probably hit the national news soon, esp. if blogsters can stir it up in other counties.
Fast action is indicated though because the Secretary of State may soon rule in favor of Lieb, which will let all the air out of the balloon. Until then, though, it's worth doing.
And it would be one helluva lot more fun that sending letters to the Senators asking them to strip Joe of his committee assignments. If Joe turns out not to be a Democrat any more because of grass-roots action, instead of of Senatorial action, it's almost like Dirty Harry to DC, "Do you feel relevant? Well do you, punk?"
-Steve
getting rid of bad dems is also necessary though