"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H.L. Mencken
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
-- KARL ROVE , Bush's long-time political guru
I can see that dumbing down is the goal, too much education is not.
Donald Rumsfeld does spoken word. For more Rumsfeld Double Speak go to Rummisms .
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
-- Donald Rumsfeld - Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
How do we talk to a man like this? What language is he using and what planet is he from?
The Corporate Media / Liberal Media
Both sides of this story accuse the other of exactly the same things.
Spinning the news to fit their agenda
mis-shaping the truth (telling lies and making rumors
mis and dis-information - lieing, deceiving, and omitting the truth
demonizing
creating hatred
all genre of propaganda techniques
So which side is correct in its accusations? The conservatives of the liberals? I think the Bush administration has tipped the argument toward the liberals. They tell the truth, do not waver form the truth, while the Bushies have to waffle on the truth. This makes the conservatives all look bad. Defending the reason why we are attacking the world, then backtracking on those reasons and in the futre resurrecting the reasons again.
More on the important topic of the media forthcoming.
