Friday, February 16, 2007
Iraq? Oh yeah, She had a great rack!
SPOILER ALERT!
2-Year Republican Strategic Communication Plan =
Tabloid Misdirection +
Blame Iran and Dems for U.S. defeat in Iraq
Tony Snow knows. Frank Luntz knows. Karl Rove knows. G-Dub knows. Dick Cheney knows. Bill O'Reilly knows. Brent Bozell knows. Jack Welch knows. John Fund knows.
As long as Anna Nicole, murderous astronauts, and other tabloid stories dominate the news, Republicans win.
Meanwhile, in things that matter, G-Dub is positioning himself to blame the loss of Iraq on Iran and unpatriotic Democrats.
W is "walking back" from the recent intelligence report that Iran funnels supersized explosive devices into Iraq because his rhetoric has locked him into a military response and it is scaring the shiz out of him.
As it should.
Everyone but the most zany wingnuts (god love 'em) knows attacking Iran would be counterproductive.
Even W suspects he has so weakened the U.S. global position that he can't take Iran on. However, for the sake of his wingnut political base and his own legacy, Hate Monkey
needs to maintain a steady drone of arrogant tough talk about how "Iran can't be allowed to go nuclear" or "interfere in the Iraqi theater" while not doing anything to follow through on the talk. This communication strategy opens up a rhetorical space in which wingnuts can fill in their own content.
In 2 to 10 years, when Iraq is unmistakebly lost, Iran has nukes, and the U.S. has been attacked on a major scale again, right wingers need to be able to say it was all Iran's and Democrats' fault.
It's amazing.
Wingnuts just can't accept the idea that maybe their preferred approach to terrorism has been a bad idea.
NOTE: Obsequious mainstream journalists are dutifully reporting the Monkey King's bumbling "walk back" as a chastened and cautious administration being wary of getting burned again by bad intelligence.
How quaint.
2-Year Republican Strategic Communication Plan =
Tabloid Misdirection +
Blame Iran and Dems for U.S. defeat in Iraq
Tony Snow knows. Frank Luntz knows. Karl Rove knows. G-Dub knows. Dick Cheney knows. Bill O'Reilly knows. Brent Bozell knows. Jack Welch knows. John Fund knows.
As long as Anna Nicole, murderous astronauts, and other tabloid stories dominate the news, Republicans win.
Meanwhile, in things that matter, G-Dub is positioning himself to blame the loss of Iraq on Iran and unpatriotic Democrats.
W is "walking back" from the recent intelligence report that Iran funnels supersized explosive devices into Iraq because his rhetoric has locked him into a military response and it is scaring the shiz out of him.
As it should.
Everyone but the most zany wingnuts (god love 'em) knows attacking Iran would be counterproductive.
Even W suspects he has so weakened the U.S. global position that he can't take Iran on. However, for the sake of his wingnut political base and his own legacy, Hate Monkey
needs to maintain a steady drone of arrogant tough talk about how "Iran can't be allowed to go nuclear" or "interfere in the Iraqi theater" while not doing anything to follow through on the talk. This communication strategy opens up a rhetorical space in which wingnuts can fill in their own content.In 2 to 10 years, when Iraq is unmistakebly lost, Iran has nukes, and the U.S. has been attacked on a major scale again, right wingers need to be able to say it was all Iran's and Democrats' fault.
It's amazing.
Wingnuts just can't accept the idea that maybe their preferred approach to terrorism has been a bad idea.
NOTE: Obsequious mainstream journalists are dutifully reporting the Monkey King's bumbling "walk back" as a chastened and cautious administration being wary of getting burned again by bad intelligence.
How quaint.
