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Edited on Thu Oct-09-03 10:52 AM by msmcghee
Here's how it works:
The pukes have innoculated Americans against any facts that look bad for them. They do this by their control of the media to plant and maintain their memes - Tax and spend, criminal softies, wellfare coddlers, military cutters, etc. Memes are concepts or ideas that millions of American's share in common.
Almost all the media, especially the media that is not NPR/PBS media, make money by spinning the news to fit with the memes we carry in our minds. The commercial media that do this the best make the most money. We like the programming when they do that and we buy the sponsors' products because the programming makes us "feel good". It makes us feel like the world is not so scary because it "all fits" with our preconcieved notions of what the world is about - embodied in our memes.
So, most of the media are simply following the memes of their listeners - spinning the news to make money. That of course, reinforces those memes and spreads them further. That's what memes do - spread - like a virus.
As an added benefit, once those memes exist in someone's mind they are innoculated from facts that don't fit those memes - even if they somehow get through the media spin filters. People reject facts that don't fit their memes. That's why some 70% of Americans believed Saddam was responsible for 9/11. They are still totally innoculated against any facts to the contrary that come our daily.
That's why only a few of us are even concerned that Bush* lied to us to go to war with Iraq. The meme for this situation in most American minds is "Swarthy Arab dictators hate us and if they have the ability to kill us they will."
They were quite happy to see Bush* go after Saddam - for whatever reason Bush* had to come up with to silence his dem critics in congress and the UN. They are proud of him for that. The more we yell about how unfair (or illegal or deceptive) that was the more they see us as cowards unwilling to defend our nation in a time of need.
It's all about memes.
The most effective meme they have right now is the "Swarthy Arab terrorist" meme. 9/11 injected that into the minds of most Americans like pure herion into a junkie's vein. Look for another major terrorist event as we get closer to the election. That one has a companion meme - dems are weak ninnies more concerned about fairness than killing those responsible for 9/11 (the swarthy Arabs again).
Carl Rove understands perfectly that it is far more effective and far less expensive to plant and control the memes that are at the base of that process - than it is to fight against opposing memes, once they are planted. That's why they have invested so much in cable, radio and newspaper outlets. It's to plant and nourish their memes in our minds. We yell about the RW spin in the news. We never even notice the memes that have been planted in our minds that cause news outlets to spin the stories in that direction.
Added on edit: What better way to take advantage of that meme than to run "The Terminator" who talks bad, gropes chicks and takes no crap off of swarthy bad guys - against the elected governor of Cal - a whimpy accountant guy who had already been damaged by Enron and the Cal Senate's refusal to pass a budget. That's why no effect from the groping stories - they just reinforced the strong, invincible republican / weak dem meme.
The bulk of Bush's* $200 million campaign chest will be spent to ensure that those memes are heavily reinforced in the minds of every American voter well before November, 2004.
The dems don't even know what memes are.
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