David Sirota- American public reaching breaking point for Repug. propaganda and War on terror lies... BUT..!
David Sirota: the American public is fast reaching a "BREAKING POINT" over relentless Republican SMEAR-and-FEAR propaganda campaigns, including the pending Disney/ABC 'docu-drama' on the 9-11 anniversary that portrays THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION as "LETTING Osama bin Laden GET AWAY from a possible 'deal' with the Sudan government."
Over at MediaWhoresUSA.blogspot.com we deconstruct this vicious LIE, and comment on how a single blaring headline at the Los Angeles Times (LAT) website will be relentlessly distributed by MILLIONS of Clinton-hating Righties as 'proof' of Clinton's a.) alleged incompetence or b.) Clinton's alleged TREASON or c.) both in "allowing" Osama bin Laden to escape justice after his bombings of the two US embassies in Africa in 1996.
As if the Clinton's trademark "punching bag" defense against Right-Wing smears and slanders wasn't proof enough of the FALLACY of ALLOWING Republican SMEARS to go uncontested, JOHN KERRY has reminded us for all eternity that if you STAND THERE and ALLOW YOUR OPPONENT TO SLIME YOU, YOU WILL BE SLIMED and you WILL LOOSE elections.
Which is why this excellent editorial by David Sirota is so timely and important. Sirota points out that ALMOST EVERY ATTACK made by the Righties on the Democrats - from Clinton to Kerry to the current Bush-Rove campaign against the faceless 2006 Democratic "leadership" - is a case of PROJECTION, Republicans accusing Democrats of THEIR OWN failings, sins, and shortcomings.
For example, the above mentioned LAT article (actually - importantly - an editorial by a foreign national who claimed close ties to President al Bashir of Sudan... the very president of the regime sponsoring mass-murder, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in portions of both north and south Sudan) CLAIMS that President Clinton "ALLOWED" Osama bin Laden to escape from a possible arrest in Sudan.... BUT WE KNOW, BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld leadership of the US war in Afghanistan in 2002 DID ALLOW Osama bin Laden to ESCAPE FROM Tora Bora, where actual US combat forces DID NOT EVEN CLOSE OFF the exit from Tora Bora valley!
As another example of Right-WIng PROJECTION, Ann Coulter has SMEARED Kristen Briteweiser and other 9-11 widows ("the Jersey girls" who vocally insisted that America conduct a major investigation into the 9-11 attacks, despite the FIERCE RESISTANCE of the Bush administration and their Republican supporters), Coulter SMEARING the 9-11 widows as "MILLIONAIRE CELEBRITY COMMENTATORS."
"MILLIONAIRE CELEBRITY COMMENTATOR" is THE VERY DEFINITION of the ghoulish Ann Coulter, who apparently feels that American mothers, fathers, and families should feed their sons, brothers, fathers, and children (and daughters and mothers as well) into the ENDLESS Bush WARS with NO right to ask questions, much less protest, the awful command decisions of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, or in America's proxy war in South Lebanon.
DEMOCRATIC "LEADERS," IF YOU ARE NOT **CONTESTING** the Bush-Rove-Cheney-Rumsfeld MEDIA NARRATIVE, full of horrendous propaganda "projection' lies and hypocrisies as documented above, you are SELLING DEMOCRATIC VOTERS DOWN THE RIVER.
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GOP Hits National Security Breaking Point With Latest Ad
by David Sirota
09.08.2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/gop-hits-national-securit_b_29008.html
I saw this new ad by the shadowy 527 group that helped President Bush in 2004, and all I could think is, I've really just about had it, and I think most Americans have also just about had it. The idea that the Republican Party can run around telling people with a straight face that it is serious about national security is just too hard to swallow anymore.
This is the party that, according to the GOP-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee, lied us into the Iraq War - a war that counterterrorism officials have repeatedly said took our focus off the War on Terror, a war that removed special forces from the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan, a war that has served as one giant recruiting advertisement for radical Islamic jihadists.
This is the party that has refused to implement the 9/11 commission recommendations; a party that was trying to slash counterterrorism funding before 9/11 at the very same time it was receiving critical warnings about an imminent terrorist attack; a party that has cut taxes while refusing to fully fund basic homeland security priorities at our airports, ports and vulnerable infrastructure.
This is a party filled with the worst forms of armchair chickenhawks - pundits, politicians, operatives and pseudo-intellectual think tank staffers who avoided their chance to serve in the military and yet who now sit comfortably in their well-guarded Washington offices, talking tough about terrorism, prancing around at Beltway symposiums telling everyone around they are really gutsy hawks, applauding national security leaks as acts of "virtue," screaming "bring it on" from behind a security detail, corralling millions of dollars to air ads against those who raise questions about Iraq, and demanding more American troops be sent off to die in more wars.
This is a party that has absolutely no reservations about using the Homeland Security Department's terror warning alert system for its political goals - ultimately relegating the warning system to late-night comedy show punchline.
This is a party whose top leaders see nothing wrong with cashing in their senior positions directing the War on Terror and moving immediately to jobs as corporate lobbyists for companies looking to profiteer off the same war.
And yet this is a party that fields candidates who behaved like yes-men on the Intelligence Committee before 9/11 and now air ads attacking their opponents for trying to fix the intelligence system. This is a party that somehow believes it is credible for them to air an ad that essentially says that if we want the country to be safer we have to vote Republican. Worse, they think they can convey this message not with any substantive proof of their accomplishments (because they have so little), but instead with a non-sequitur-ish horror-film-like montage of burning buildings, Osama bin Laden photos, and live-action footage of a plane flying into the World Trade Center - a disgusting display of fearmongering that happily defiles the memories of the victims of terrorism and turns them into cheap tools for Republican Party campaign propaganda.
I, for one, have confidence in the American people. I believe people are nauseated by this kind of crass behavior coming from Washington. We've hit a breaking point where - to the Republican Party's dismay - people are finally getting over a very understandable bout of mass post traumatic stress disorder from 9/11 which in the past led many to unquestioningly trust our leaders to be serious about securing our country. And come November 7th, Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman, Bill Kristol, Dan Senor and the entire GOP clique laughing it up at their cocktail parties in Washington is going to run square into a brick wall of American voters who know its time for a change.
Over at MediaWhoresUSA.blogspot.com we deconstruct this vicious LIE, and comment on how a single blaring headline at the Los Angeles Times (LAT) website will be relentlessly distributed by MILLIONS of Clinton-hating Righties as 'proof' of Clinton's a.) alleged incompetence or b.) Clinton's alleged TREASON or c.) both in "allowing" Osama bin Laden to escape justice after his bombings of the two US embassies in Africa in 1996.
As if the Clinton's trademark "punching bag" defense against Right-Wing smears and slanders wasn't proof enough of the FALLACY of ALLOWING Republican SMEARS to go uncontested, JOHN KERRY has reminded us for all eternity that if you STAND THERE and ALLOW YOUR OPPONENT TO SLIME YOU, YOU WILL BE SLIMED and you WILL LOOSE elections.
Which is why this excellent editorial by David Sirota is so timely and important. Sirota points out that ALMOST EVERY ATTACK made by the Righties on the Democrats - from Clinton to Kerry to the current Bush-Rove campaign against the faceless 2006 Democratic "leadership" - is a case of PROJECTION, Republicans accusing Democrats of THEIR OWN failings, sins, and shortcomings.
For example, the above mentioned LAT article (actually - importantly - an editorial by a foreign national who claimed close ties to President al Bashir of Sudan... the very president of the regime sponsoring mass-murder, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in portions of both north and south Sudan) CLAIMS that President Clinton "ALLOWED" Osama bin Laden to escape from a possible arrest in Sudan.... BUT WE KNOW, BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld leadership of the US war in Afghanistan in 2002 DID ALLOW Osama bin Laden to ESCAPE FROM Tora Bora, where actual US combat forces DID NOT EVEN CLOSE OFF the exit from Tora Bora valley!
As another example of Right-WIng PROJECTION, Ann Coulter has SMEARED Kristen Briteweiser and other 9-11 widows ("the Jersey girls" who vocally insisted that America conduct a major investigation into the 9-11 attacks, despite the FIERCE RESISTANCE of the Bush administration and their Republican supporters), Coulter SMEARING the 9-11 widows as "MILLIONAIRE CELEBRITY COMMENTATORS."
"MILLIONAIRE CELEBRITY COMMENTATOR" is THE VERY DEFINITION of the ghoulish Ann Coulter, who apparently feels that American mothers, fathers, and families should feed their sons, brothers, fathers, and children (and daughters and mothers as well) into the ENDLESS Bush WARS with NO right to ask questions, much less protest, the awful command decisions of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, or in America's proxy war in South Lebanon.
DEMOCRATIC "LEADERS," IF YOU ARE NOT **CONTESTING** the Bush-Rove-Cheney-Rumsfeld MEDIA NARRATIVE, full of horrendous propaganda "projection' lies and hypocrisies as documented above, you are SELLING DEMOCRATIC VOTERS DOWN THE RIVER.
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GOP Hits National Security Breaking Point With Latest Ad
by David Sirota
09.08.2006
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/gop-hits-national-securit_b_29008.html
I saw this new ad by the shadowy 527 group that helped President Bush in 2004, and all I could think is, I've really just about had it, and I think most Americans have also just about had it. The idea that the Republican Party can run around telling people with a straight face that it is serious about national security is just too hard to swallow anymore.
This is the party that, according to the GOP-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee, lied us into the Iraq War - a war that counterterrorism officials have repeatedly said took our focus off the War on Terror, a war that removed special forces from the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan, a war that has served as one giant recruiting advertisement for radical Islamic jihadists.
This is the party that has refused to implement the 9/11 commission recommendations; a party that was trying to slash counterterrorism funding before 9/11 at the very same time it was receiving critical warnings about an imminent terrorist attack; a party that has cut taxes while refusing to fully fund basic homeland security priorities at our airports, ports and vulnerable infrastructure.
This is a party filled with the worst forms of armchair chickenhawks - pundits, politicians, operatives and pseudo-intellectual think tank staffers who avoided their chance to serve in the military and yet who now sit comfortably in their well-guarded Washington offices, talking tough about terrorism, prancing around at Beltway symposiums telling everyone around they are really gutsy hawks, applauding national security leaks as acts of "virtue," screaming "bring it on" from behind a security detail, corralling millions of dollars to air ads against those who raise questions about Iraq, and demanding more American troops be sent off to die in more wars.
This is a party that has absolutely no reservations about using the Homeland Security Department's terror warning alert system for its political goals - ultimately relegating the warning system to late-night comedy show punchline.
This is a party whose top leaders see nothing wrong with cashing in their senior positions directing the War on Terror and moving immediately to jobs as corporate lobbyists for companies looking to profiteer off the same war.
And yet this is a party that fields candidates who behaved like yes-men on the Intelligence Committee before 9/11 and now air ads attacking their opponents for trying to fix the intelligence system. This is a party that somehow believes it is credible for them to air an ad that essentially says that if we want the country to be safer we have to vote Republican. Worse, they think they can convey this message not with any substantive proof of their accomplishments (because they have so little), but instead with a non-sequitur-ish horror-film-like montage of burning buildings, Osama bin Laden photos, and live-action footage of a plane flying into the World Trade Center - a disgusting display of fearmongering that happily defiles the memories of the victims of terrorism and turns them into cheap tools for Republican Party campaign propaganda.
I, for one, have confidence in the American people. I believe people are nauseated by this kind of crass behavior coming from Washington. We've hit a breaking point where - to the Republican Party's dismay - people are finally getting over a very understandable bout of mass post traumatic stress disorder from 9/11 which in the past led many to unquestioningly trust our leaders to be serious about securing our country. And come November 7th, Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman, Bill Kristol, Dan Senor and the entire GOP clique laughing it up at their cocktail parties in Washington is going to run square into a brick wall of American voters who know its time for a change.
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