The Era of Distortion

[nadinbrzezinski]

The Era of Distortion
By DAVID BROOKS

Published: January 6, 2004





o you ever get the sense the whole world is becoming unhinged from reality? I started feeling that way awhile ago, when I was still working for The Weekly Standard and all these articles began appearing about how Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Doug Feith, Bill Kristol and a bunch of "neoconservatives" at the magazine had taken over U.S. foreign policy.

Theories about the tightly knit neocon cabal came in waves. One day you read that neocons were pushing plans to finish off Iraq and move into Syria. Web sites appeared detailing neocon conspiracies; my favorite described a neocon outing organized by Dick Cheney to hunt for humans. The Asian press had the most lurid stories; the European press the most thorough. Every day, it seemed, Le Monde or some deep-thinking German paper would have an exposé on the neocon cabal, complete with charts connecting all the conspirators

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/opinion/06BROO.html

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I smell desperation here, and by the way, this is a new meme, neo means NEW, not Jewish... so this is desperation, but as Ray Tal points out... PNAC is NOW on the New York times

Folks as they say, this is the time to press our advantage... they are flailing folks this is desperation

By the way, Neo Con means New Conservative... amazing how they are now trying to distance themselves from the meme they themselves created.

[izzie]

1. It is odd that what they believed the DOD did.

And Bush gave his OK and they all spent months trying to make us see their point.Why was that?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. propaganda, but equating

neo con with anti Semite is just odd... what they expect most of us
not to know that Neo means NEW?

[DrBB]

3. Actually, this meme is aimed at Clark

Evidence of Clark anxiety here, I think. Not exclusively of course, but I'm pretty sure that's the chief underlying meme he's trying to spread. "The General's a NutCase"--the classic reichsmear against a candidate with strong military credentials (viz, McCain)--and they're "proving" it by the whacky, conspiracy-theory nuttiness he spouts about there being plans to go after Syria, Libya, Iran etc now that we've done Iraq. Note that Clark (IIRC) is the only one mentioned by name.....

Also worth a look: the 100% negative LTTEs in response to this piece of belligerent nonsense.

on edit: apparently it needs a little reinforcement that "neo, which means Jew" is ironic. Obviously he expects NYTimes readers to know what "neo" means. Maybe even the odd Matrix fan, too.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. Josh Marshall comments at TPM:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_01_04.html#002372

Distortion, indeed! How about:
Neo = fascist
Con = con-man