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February 15, 2006
WB: Power of Persuasion
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Nah, Dick doesn’t say “dictatorship.” Bush only says it when he’s referring to other countries.
“Either you agree with my patriotism or disagree. If you disagree… well, being unpatriotic is treason, isn’t it? Anybody who’s loyal to the United States would want to help defend it from the terrorists.”
Patriotism = unquestioning devotion.
Bah.
Shotgun blast to the face?
To be Cheneyed
Cheney probably forgot where he was
& hallucinated a bullmoose. TR had nuthin’
on him.
….
Posted by: hanshan | Feb 15 2006 17:37 utc | 3
is that the real billmon? “Persuation”? 🙂 and maybe that should be “The Powder of Persuasion”.
btw, are there any current google map or terraserver images of the armstrong property which might reveal any fresh dirt mounds?
Posted by: b real | Feb 15 2006 18:28 utc | 4
Amy had John Perkins on Democracy Now today. He specifically mentioned “Senators dying in plane crashes” as one of the ‘methods of persuasion’ used.
Democracy in Amerika is dead but too dumb to lie down. Thank God for the Second Amendment.
Posted by: Aigin | Feb 15 2006 20:08 utc | 6
“Senators dying in plane crashes” as one of the ‘methods of persuasion’ used.”
Yech, I get this queasy feeling, like I gotta maybe puke — I always thought from day one there was something fishy about Wellstone’s demise and wondered if it wasn’t a snuff job — but no, things like that don’t happen, not in the US anyway.
As Tom Paxton wrote, “What will it take to change your mind, Mr. Blue, a broke heart, a broken head?
Power of Persuation, indeed:
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Posted by: Uncle $cam | Feb 16 2006 0:53 utc | 8
I worked all day today (I work in home-care for the developmentally disabled), which meant having access to a TV all day. I left it on MSNBC. I was amazed by one thing.
That thing wasn’t the single-minded determination with which MSNBC pursued the Cheney shooting story. It was the single-minded determination with which MSNBC pursued one aspect of the Cheney shooting story.
In a 7-hour shift, I think that about 70% of the time that there wasn’t a commercial on was dedicated to the way Cheney handled the press.
Not to the fact that, you know, the Vice President shot someone in an act of gross negligence. The way the Vice President chose to inform the press of his act of shooting someone. By ignoring the fact that the Vice President of the United States commited a crime – a serious crime, with a GUN – the press has let him off the hook.
Just as they have for every other thing he’s done wrong since taking office.
Dick Cheney started out doing an exemplary job as the Power Behind the Throne: he was pretty much off the radar screen or lying low at an undisclosed location (or off huntin’) and went relatively unnoticed, except by his fans and supporters.
Now his ugly head has been exposed so many times over that even the standard media consumers have started to cotton on that Bush is just the mouthpiece, the real decision come from Dick Cheney and his cabal.
And just as a side note: if Dick *had* actually served in the military, he might’ve learned how to handle weapons safely.
Posted by: ralphieboy | Feb 16 2006 12:34 utc | 10
Good analysis, Keith. I wonder if it is not a crime to not report an accident like that promtly and have police out to inspect the scene immeadiatly.
Once, last year, some conservative-minded ladies objected about the “BUSHIT” sticker in Scarbrough’s passenger-side window. Scarbrough and his supervisor reviewed all the federal rules concerning bumper stickers on employee vehicles, and discovered that nothing he had displayed could be considered illegal. But for once, Scarbrough simply removed the sticker. Indeed, his current lineup is quite sparse by his standards, he says.
But on this day, apparently it was still too much.
Posted by: beq | Feb 16 2006 17:41 utc | 12
You read a story like the one beq posted of Mr Scarbrough and you realise that the Bushites have a long way to go really.
The US like most places on this old planet has it’s share of individualists who live their lives, go about their business until something really pisses them off.
The controlling power tries to ignore them for as long as possible because they know that going head to head with these people is going to be a major and their side doesn’t have too many people who have the courage of their convictions.
Mr Scarborough handled it exactly right just as he did with the Bushit sticker, go along with their unreasonable demands to avoid the confrontation that they have probably spent weeks planning. That wrong-foots these sheeple and from then on they have no real power only the ability to quote arcane bits of obscure legislation. The notion that there are rules about what what a federal employee does with his private vehicle in the US horrifies me but there you go.
Anyway witness the end result. Mr Scarbrough is still parking his car with signs in his carpark space and the dept of Homeland Security sheeple are scared shitless cause someone has called their big bullshit bluff.
Yeah I know there could be a squad of some Federal Department whose energies will be devoted to finding ways of getting rid of Mr Scarbrough, but they will end up with mud on their noses as long as Mr Scarbrough keeps on with the tactic of reflecting or diverting their force back on themselves.
The problem BushCo is having finding good cannon fodder pretty accurately reflects the numbers of people who stand up for what they believe in that mob has.
If the slimes push too hard they will succeed in getting the Mr Scarbroughs to stand together and that will be the end.
Once again I have to say that I suspect that Dems will not be the banner they stand together under, because if they do that they will alienate the individualists who think they are ‘wingers, but who still see all people as individuals with responsibilities sure, but a big bunch of rights go with those responsibilities.
It will be great if all the people who stand up for what they believe in and who loath the notion that repression in the name of the State or the wealth of Corporates, trumps an individual’s basic rights, didn’t allow themselves to be caught up in the old ‘divide and rule game’.
Posted by: Debs is dead | Feb 16 2006 21:24 utc | 13
@DiD — I appaud Dwight Scarbrough, but I’ve got an uneasy feeling that we are just at the beginning of political repression. If things [start?] to turn sour for the Empire, I imagine that we will hear the beat of the ‘sedition’ drum, 1st amendment or no 1st amendment.
Posted by: DM | Feb 16 2006 22:25 utc | 14