Thursday, June 02, 2005

"Catapaulting the propaganda"

I didn't say that. GW did last week, in one of his infamous taxpayer-funded, open-only-to-Bush-kissups social security "town hall meetings." (The transcript...)

For once he was telling the truth. Here's what he said,
"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 catapault the propaganda."

He wins by repeating the same bull-pockey over and over and over - the Big
Lie Technique described by Goebbels and used by Hitler:

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

I just peeked at the vitriol coming out of a conservative online newsletter, Human Events Online, and decided that we need to create and repeat some vitriolic phrases of our own. How about:
Republican theocrats
God, Guns and Greed Republicans
Corrosive conservatives
TheoCons
FBI – “faith-based intelligence”

But you can't top Garrison Keillor - here's my favorite part of his anti-Republican rant:
"The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous."

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