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September 17, 2006
WB: The Late Show

Billmon:

But War President doesn’t really have the option of switching to cable, where the old formula might still prove commercially viable. Maybe the producers can keep the sponsors on board until Shrub’s contract is up. But I guess that depends on how many affiliates are willing to renew in November for next year’s season.

The Late Show

Posted by b on September 17, 2006 at 04:51 UTC | Permalink
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Yeah, one big corny cop show script to drone the masses into apathy. It’s friday night Fantastic Features with your host Sivad Bush, everynight of the week now…
Just like when you were a kid.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 17 2006 7:56 utc | 1

Yeah, it does seem like the War President show has been stuck in reruns for awhile. Part of the déjà vu factor comes from old-fashioned bad writing and laziness, but a lot of it is intentional. As the show’s star once explained:
“See, in my line of work, you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in… to kind of catapult the propaganda.” G.W. Bush, May 24th 2005

Posted by: Monolycus | Sep 17 2006 14:28 utc | 2

argh monolycus I just looked that up and was goint to post it

Posted by: Noirette | Sep 17 2006 14:44 utc | 3

From the Crisis papers:
THE 9 PRINCIPLES OF FASCIST PROPAGANDA:


1. The Big Lie – Always choose the big lie over the small; the masses will believe it more readily.


2. Focus – Use only one or at most two selling points.


3. Repeat – Use them over and over until even your enemies know them by heart.


4. Blame – Never waver, acknowledge no doubt, always blame – never credit – the other side.


5. Provoke – First attract attention, then appeal to emotions.


6. Crisis – Shades of gray don’t work: The issues must be black and white: love/hate, good/evil, life/death.


7. Emotional Symbols – Good slogans have no literal meaning, only a strong emotional appeal.


8. Pander – Ignore intellectuals and reasonable arguments; target the unthinking masses with powerful emotional pitches.


9. No Limits – Ignore all moral limits when you believe stakes are high.
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Posted by: Noirette | Sep 17 2006 15:01 utc | 4

10. Fox News

Posted by: billmon | Sep 17 2006 17:08 utc | 5

11. Diebold

Posted by: PeeDee | Sep 17 2006 21:11 utc | 6

12. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…..huh?

Posted by: anna missed | Sep 17 2006 21:58 utc | 7

13. Are you ready for some football???!!!

Posted by: mistah charley | Sep 18 2006 2:10 utc | 8

@Noirette
Sorry about that, but that quote was running through my head the entire time I was reading Billmon’s article. Great minds and all that…

Posted by: Monolycus | Sep 18 2006 5:07 utc | 9

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