While acknowledging disturbing facts and ridiculing assertions within the article, “Republican Fear has Given the Terrorists an Easy Victory,” a much more revealing level of clarity could be achieved – if another explicit step was taken. Some of our (MS) media members convey bewilderment – while calling certain republicans out with terms like (ongoing) “amnesia.” But, rarely does a member go the extra (bold) mile by directly identifying what they are actually doing – on purpose. It is not because of momentary “amnesia” or mistaken/uninformed presentations when they publicly state that “no terrorist attacks occurred on Bush’s watch.” The same applies to their relentless focusing on the three days it took for Obama to respond to the Underpants Bomber – while Bush’s six days to respond to the Shoe Bomber are seemingly forgotten. They know, precisely, what they are doing. It is all part of a concerted talking points Act. (The fronted foundations are as real and genuine as Beck’s Tears: He did not truly believe Sarah Palin was [pretending to quote from his personal journal] “one of the only people . . . that [could] possibly lead us out of where we [were].” Based on provided lines and theatrical props, two (wholly controlled) players were just filling their roles/reading their lines. The entire premise was a formulated camera setup: everything seen and heard was simulated for a fictitious FOXworld.) It is conscious – and on purpose. This is their (continuing) Big LIES campaign. To them, it’s just politics – without boundaries. (Anyone having a problem with that is just weak – and a possible target.) The “B Movie” outrage is as fake as the utterly insulting Scripts: “Oh My God!”: “Death Panels!” Incredible and entirely manipulative equations like “Pres. Obama Reacts to Haiti Earthquake Faster Than Christmas Bomber” (deliberately) serve to allow the following (Staged) reactions.
“Today, it’s Liz Cheney and her fear-mongering commercials. It’s Peter King, who’s been all over cable news hyperventilating into a paper sack since Christmas. It never ceases to amaze me how a faction of allegedly tough-talking conservatives can be so easily frightened by a kid with exploding underpants who couldn’t even do it right.”
People like Liz Cheney and Peter King are not “so easily frightened.” They need to be boldly confronted with what they are obviously doing: acting and lying, beyond all moral senses.
“The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an overreaction. Its real aim is not to kill the hundreds of people directly targeted but to sow fear in the rest of the population.”’
One element of full-scale propaganda is for prominent public figures to intentionally overreact – in unison. In turn, when other prominent public figures rise to the latter occasions by directly defining their measures, as well as exposing their Acts, tremendous offsetting of the propagandists’ success can be made (while further enlightening / empowering the besieged public).
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Promoting Secessionism and . . .):
Sarah Palin: “Don’t Retreat, Instead–RELOAD!”
Rep. Steve King: “Let’s beat the other side to a pulp!” “Let’s chase them down! There’s going to be a reckoning.” “I just came down here so I could say to you, God bless you. . . . You are the awesome American people. . . . If I could start a country with a bunch of people, they’d be the folks who were standing with us the last few days. Let’s hope we don’t have to do that!”
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Glenn Beck the Faith-Healer Continues to Scam His Followers
Regarding the difference between this article and “Republican Fear has Given the Terrorists an Easy Victory,” it is welcome to see a more direct approach to their ACTS.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Wood-Harp/glenn-beck-the-faith-heal_b_702586_60350277.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/post_2318_b_929083.html
“But policy makers on both sides seem to have forgotten. . . .”
Wrong, Mr. Reich. They have not “forgotten” anything. This campaign (“austerity” on the backs of the poor after an unregulated ENRON raping worldwide ) is (and was) ideologically planned – on a global scale.
When prominent people like you in the media, social, or political atmosphere react in such a manner (giving advice – as if they would ever take it, and as if they don’t know, or provide excuses like they “seem to have forgotten”) it directly serves to give them Cover.
While your proposed solutions are most often applauded, obfuscating the reality of why they are doing what they are doing and what they are further planning, purposely, with eyes wide open, is crucially unwelcome.
Empire of Chaos: How 9/11 Shaped the Politics of a Failing State
“In essence, the responses to 9/11 by the managers of the corporate-military state, which were largely shaped by ideology, have accelerated a decline that started decades ago.” Yours was an insightful article. However, I believe one crucial aspect was missed: the “decline” was essential to planned goals: “to reduce it to the size where [they] can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
Once culminated, the “New Pearl Harbor” and “New American Century” have been fully taken advantage of. In relation, after succeeding in purposely bankrupting the entire system, the endless “decline[s]” followed by tax cut after tax cut (No New Revenues/Less and Less Revenues), austerity measure after austerity measure, and a step-by-step dismantling of every social program has been a conscious/premeditated goal – which is exponentially being fulfilled.
Once everything is bankrupted into privatization, as planned (see the Post Office crisis Scam and Darrell Issa: “The problem lies elsewhere: the 2006 congressional mandate that the USPS pre-fund future retiree health benefits for the next 75 years, and do so within a decade, an obligation no other public agency or private firm faces. The roughly $5.5 billion annual payments since 2007 — $21 billion total — are the difference between a positive and negative ledger.”) (see Social Security: has nothing to do with the Deficit/trillions in the black/most successful social program ever/put “on the table” by the president.), the 1% will have finally reordered everything into what they see as its “proper” place: “And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
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David Gregory’s House of Pain
http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/01/30/david-gregorys-house-of-pain/
Key: “David Gregory of NBC News tried to get an interview with the sleazy governor by reassuring him that ‘Meet the Press’ allows you to frame the conversation how you really want to.’”
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001220019
The same provision of 100% Talking Points applies to David himself, who, as an elite corporate puppet, will mouth any lines guided by his ventriloquists.