I started blogging about our political situation as kind of a personal therapy after Bush got reelected. One of the many things that had gotten to me was what I perceived to be "talking over" the truth. Whenever Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Rice, or Rove was confronted about anything, they all did the same thing in response. They basically said that the question was silly, or that the Liberals, or Liberal Media was distorting things, and then they simply discounted the question. A lot of that "talking point" stuff was lies, a lot of it was evasion, but almost none of it was true. It’s still going on. I saw Bush on T.V. [briefly]. He was talking about how well we’re doing in Iraq. Yesterday, he was laughing off his poll numbers, apparently, it’s not that we don’t like him, it’s that we’re "We Are At War, And War Unsettles People" Rove did the same thing at his A.E.I. speech, a "sour time."
How that worked for them has mystified me, but it has. Finally, it’s not working any more. Every article on the web talks about Rove’s speech like it was total spin, even the MSM articles. Maybe the "Emperor has no clothes" message will finally be heard.
If anything, Bush’s Poll numbers are inflated by people who are either unwilling to admit they were wrong or remain too Xenophobic to think…
| From Frank Rich of the NYT:
Like the Bush era, the cynical Rove strategy of exploiting faith-based voters may be nearing its end. For proof, just take a look at the most craven figure in American politics: the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist. To flatter the far right, this Harvard-trained surgeon misdiagnosed Terri Schiavo’s vegetative state from the Senate floor, and justified abstinence-only sex education in AIDS prevention by telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that he didn’t know for certain that tears and sweat couldn’t transmit HIV. But increasingly it’s not only liberals who see through him. One of his latest stunts, a proposed $100 gas-tax rebate, provoked Rush Limbaugh to condemn him for "treating us like we’re a bunch of whores." |
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