I think you’re exactly right. We saw this with Hackett, and Dean, and Kerry. The movers and shakers were given the narrative, and they spun it out to the media consumers. Little if any thought was given to the truth, nor was the conventional wisdom questioned. How could that much noise be generated, while truth was quietly ushered down the back stairs?

These people know they are opinion makers, and they do for the money, because they can, or because they have the power to. And that, arguably, in the hands of profit motivated corporation is far more dangerous than any politician or rhetoric.

God, I laughed so hard at this.

(I think I cracked a rib)

Media drives public opinion. It decides what is or isn’t cool, who is or is not qualified to lead, what you will et or what you will wear. It doesn[‘t do this by simply telling you what you should think or who you should admire. That would be pretty stupid and even worse, it simply would not work.

What does work though are the advertising techniques that have been perfected over the last 70 years ever since Bernays (Freud’s nephew) invented modern PR propaganda. It’s called Manufacturing Consent and it works extremely well when you can control all access to information.

People like David see it as their honorable duty as an elite to shape and mold us for our own good. They are keeping the wild and dangerous Id at bay and under control.

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You know what? Screw it, I don’t know anything any more. I’m not sure I believe this. I was going to delete this but I think I will let it go and post it. Think of this as just me mumbling to myself. It’s a theory I have believed in e.g. the media controls and manipulates the masses but hell I don’t know what I believe any more. Someone else figure it out.

And what other GOP candidate has the proven ability to be nominated for a Senate seat in more than one state?

Bill KKKristal is now convinced that his party will ride to victory with a wide margin, proving again that what the neocons have for brains is starting to implode, or rot, your choice. I prefer the rot idea because it implies a smell that I now associate with anything neoconish or Bushite.

Then there’s the fact that she still–STILL–doesn’t regret voting to authorize Bush to use military force against Iraq. And she is going around saying she would nuke Pakistan if we found a terrorist base there. And she has been bought and paid for by the health insurance companies. etc.

Well, lots of people keep saying Kucinich is unelectable. I guess he would need to switch parties, though.

I suppose I’ll hop on the Keyes bandwagon – I mean, I’ve supported Keyes since 2004.

Rev. ALAN KEYES also clearly understands who is actually in charge and bows hhis head every day.

ALAN KEYES, The only Truly Conservative Republican running!

And there MIGHT actually be something to this if a.) the Republican party had not become so universally loathed by its policies, it’s lack of independence and integrity and it’s corruption and b.) the Republican candidate was something other than a two-dimensional Wily E. Coyote type cartoon.

That said, I’d really prefer John Edwards become the 44th POTUS, but if they think that any of the crackers and crackpots they’re standing up now have ANY chance to win the general, they’re gonna need a whole bunch of help from Osama…

mikey

fucking John Tierney was more sincere