Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Republican Noise / Distraction Machine kicks into high gear
Anyone else find the Sandy Berger story a bit, um, conveniently timed -- two days before the release of the 9/11 report and the week before the Democratic National Convention?
This sounds like vintage Karl Rove to me -- assisted by his little elves in the National Archives and/or 9/11 Commission of course.
Can't you see the meme developing, boys and girls? Democrats are traitors who don't care about national security -- look at what John Kerry adviser Sandy Berger did, right? He compromised national security to cover the Clinton administration's ass, right?
Give me a break. I guess the scariest thing is that this apparently distorted-beyond-belief story comes straight out of the Republican Noise Machine -- and our press reports it just as the RNC fax they just received told them to.
Now, what about Valerie Plame, guys? Why haven't heard anything about that story in a while?
Oh. I guess the RNC hasn't sent you a fax on that one recently, huh?
UPDATE: I see that Josh Marshall agrees with me that this is a malicious leak to distract us all from the looming 9/11 report.
You can't help but wonder what's in it now, can you?
What are they trying to distract us from?
This sounds like vintage Karl Rove to me -- assisted by his little elves in the National Archives and/or 9/11 Commission of course.
Can't you see the meme developing, boys and girls? Democrats are traitors who don't care about national security -- look at what John Kerry adviser Sandy Berger did, right? He compromised national security to cover the Clinton administration's ass, right?
Give me a break. I guess the scariest thing is that this apparently distorted-beyond-belief story comes straight out of the Republican Noise Machine -- and our press reports it just as the RNC fax they just received told them to.
Now, what about Valerie Plame, guys? Why haven't heard anything about that story in a while?
Oh. I guess the RNC hasn't sent you a fax on that one recently, huh?
UPDATE: I see that Josh Marshall agrees with me that this is a malicious leak to distract us all from the looming 9/11 report.
You can't help but wonder what's in it now, can you?
What are they trying to distract us from?
