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roachboy · 02-27-2005, 11:27 AM

it appears that conservatives have become so used to living in an ideological echo chamber that the details of how things work inside of it are not interesting to them.

let's see
for example, from the old days when the right was still in opposition, their tactics included:

fake social movements developed by the christian coalition and later tobacco companies that used a switching mechanism--canvasserrs could cold call, discuss a political issue, ask if you would like to speak with a congress person and then put you straight through--works to give the illusion of massive active support when the key is in fact a switch.

a style of self-confirming propaganda enframing: the likes of limbaugh, loyal transmission belts for propositions worked out at the level of think tanks (heritage, hoover, aei, cato, the list goes on) claim to speak for all americans, to themselves be in a position to dfein who and what america is. there is never any dissent: it is a self-enclosed, self-referential, self-confirming political environment.
conservatives like that.
makes them feel part of something Big.

the pathological, relentless demonization of clinton etc. within this echo chamber world,
etc etc

since bushworld was handed the gift of 9/11/2001--the kind of gift that would seem to confirm to someone like bush that he is in fact on a mission from some god---a gift, a wedge around which its more authoritarian aspects could enter into the political fray--the gift that keeps on giving because it, more than anything else, explains how bush could possibly have been re-elected....

systematic propaganda in favor of totally unnecessary, unjustified and unjustifable miliatry adventurism. campaign after campaign to label any and all opposition unamerican, unpatriotic, blah blah blah--starting with the ludiucrous assault on france for opposing the fradulent case the administration tried to foist on the unsc, to more recent campaigns like those demonizing michael moore, etc.

total control over the press--through pooling, through limiting access, through screening of questions, etc.: the gannon thing is just a small part of this. the point of control of press access: the creation of the illusion of unanimity---in the grand tradition of leni riefenstahl's "triumph of the will"--the Nation unified around Miltiary Values and the Person of the Leader....

the right might be politically vacant, an authoritarian political movement where the term democracy is bandied about on orders from the top--but they have figured out how to develop an impressive media apparatus.
as much as i loathe karl rove--as much as i understand him of being the worst, most debased type of political operative---you got to hand it to the guy--at the level of tactics, he is good. he certainly has chumped many conservatives into forgetting that their politics functions logically only within this media shell.

fake reporters
fake memos leaked to networks in order to then be discredited (bush and the "problem" of vietnam...the "problem" for flag waving rightwingers that should have been posed by his chicken-hawk past--all resolved by a clever, nasty rove-trick
fake questions
fake answers
fake rationale for war
fake president
fake politics

02-27-2005, 11:27 AM	#18 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	it appears that conservatives have become so used to living in an ideological echo chamber that the details of how things work inside of it are not interesting to them. let's see for example, from the old days when the right was still in opposition, their tactics included: fake social movements developed by the christian coalition and later tobacco companies that used a switching mechanism--canvasserrs could cold call, discuss a political issue, ask if you would like to speak with a congress person and then put you straight through--works to give the illusion of massive active support when the key is in fact a switch. a style of self-confirming propaganda enframing: the likes of limbaugh, loyal transmission belts for propositions worked out at the level of think tanks (heritage, hoover, aei, cato, the list goes on) claim to speak for all americans, to themselves be in a position to dfein who and what america is. there is never any dissent: it is a self-enclosed, self-referential, self-confirming political environment. conservatives like that. makes them feel part of something Big. the pathological, relentless demonization of clinton etc. within this echo chamber world, etc etc since bushworld was handed the gift of 9/11/2001--the kind of gift that would seem to confirm to someone like bush that he is in fact on a mission from some god---a gift, a wedge around which its more authoritarian aspects could enter into the political fray--the gift that keeps on giving because it, more than anything else, explains how bush could possibly have been re-elected.... systematic propaganda in favor of totally unnecessary, unjustified and unjustifable miliatry adventurism. campaign after campaign to label any and all opposition unamerican, unpatriotic, blah blah blah--starting with the ludiucrous assault on france for opposing the fradulent case the administration tried to foist on the unsc, to more recent campaigns like those demonizing michael moore, etc. total control over the press--through pooling, through limiting access, through screening of questions, etc.: the gannon thing is just a small part of this. the point of control of press access: the creation of the illusion of unanimity---in the grand tradition of leni riefenstahl's "triumph of the will"--the Nation unified around Miltiary Values and the Person of the Leader.... the right might be politically vacant, an authoritarian political movement where the term democracy is bandied about on orders from the top--but they have figured out how to develop an impressive media apparatus. as much as i loathe karl rove--as much as i understand him of being the worst, most debased type of political operative---you got to hand it to the guy--at the level of tactics, he is good. he certainly has chumped many conservatives into forgetting that their politics functions logically only within this media shell. fake reporters fake memos leaked to networks in order to then be discredited (bush and the "problem" of vietnam...the "problem" for flag waving rightwingers that should have been posed by his chicken-hawk past--all resolved by a clever, nasty rove-trick fake questions fake answers fake rationale for war fake president fake politics __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 02-27-2005 at 11:31 AM..