Even the enormous tragedy of New Orleans is now being turned to Bush’s political advantage by making him appear to be a concerned, sympathetic person after the fact.The large number of photo ops designed to tug at our heartstrings has only one purpose— to cast Bush in a sympathetic light with the vast majority of Americans who are turned off by all his intentional policy failures.
Now the drum beat will begin to reverse the perceptions of Bush as a cold hearted, bloodthirsty frat boy and start the new talk about how Bush was let down by his subordinates.He will also be shown to be a take-charge leader who will make New Orleans whole again.
All of these only go to show how gullible the American people have been, being taken in by conmen of all stripes.That is only possible in a society that attaches too much significance to maintaining appearances.Even at this late stage, after New Orleans, many find it difficult to grasp that Bush is less than zero, a hollow human being and all his pretenses of being sympathetic towards his fellow human beings is a sham designed to rehabilitate his image.
Yes, but…isn’t it up to “we the people” to make sure that the “spin” is stopped dead in it’s tracks? Write every news agency that showboats this “compassionate conservative” as a too little too late actor. We must force the MSM to tell the f’ing truth about George. Every chance we get it should be shouted in no uncertain terms that George is taking this country to the depths of hell and that unless he is removed by either impeachment or resignation that we will boycott watching their propagandacasts or buy or read online the crap they print? Can we make this commitment? And when will the WH press corpse stop allowing Scottie to not answer questions? WHen will they say enough is enough and refuse to show up for the nonbrieflings?
I only want to point out that in our culture perceptions carry more weight than substance.Otherwise, we would have had Al Gore or John Kerry as our President.Even as I write I notice that George Lakoff is saying that Bush is winning the ‘framing’ or perceptions battle. Showing him in scenes worthy of a Frank Capra movie is enough to turn a large number of Americans in the middle towards seeing him as a can-do, sympathetic leader and that is what matters to Rove.Substance be damned.
This is my latest letter to the editor; I never know if it will do any good, but I have to try:
President Bush has suspended the Davis-Bacon law,
which requires federal contractors to pay its workers at least the prevailing wage on construction projects, for areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. Time and again the Republicans have tried to undermine Davis-Bacon, but couldn’t muster the votes. Now, as with the odious Patriot Act, they exploit a national tragedy to further their Kiss Up, Kick Down agenda.
When Americans see on the nightly news how poverty
impaired thousands of people’s ability to flee the storm, many of us are questioning the part
that race and class have played in this disaster. It’s
time to stop cutting taxes for the wealthy and heaping riches on contractors friendly to this administration.
Raise the minimum wage and begin to shrink the growing gulf between rich and poor which endangers our democracy and dishonours our ideals.
Shame, shame on them for this opportunistic assault on our most vulnerable citizens.
Awesome LTE!
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Nothing scares me more than the idea of george with his incompetent and psychotic finger on the nuclear trigger. I think that is the image that will finally turn most Americans away from him. There aren’t that many who are fooled by the flag covering the nukes.
I am sure that you have heard about the new doctrine in the War on Terrorism that says we will use nuclear weapons against terrorists?
Makes you feel very safe, doesn’t it?
This morning the madman is at it again, claiming that we will be hit with bioweapons soon.
All the apologies in the world, will not change what has happened. The poor souls who lost their lives, are still dead and gone. The suffering is still sky-high.
He can apologize from now until forever, what will it really change? Will he be percieved suddenly, as a humble man of morallity and virtue? Thrilling. He is now a humble man of morality and virtue. Try not to keel over from sheer excitement.
For someone who has shown time and again that the lives of other people are expendable in his own drive for self aggrandizement,NO, Iraq, 9/11 and many disasters yet to come are all of a piece.
You will note that there is not a whiff of remorse in the PR campaign he has mounted for self rehabilitation.That is because he is addressing an audience that thinks poor people brought this disaster on themselves.
I am sure that he will not be content with the disaster trifecta he has brought forth but will enhance them further with quadrifecta, pentafecta and hexafecta.At this point my Latin has deserted me but you get the point.