Can you name instances of Vast Right Wing Conspiracy since Clinton left office?

[blm]

When did the VRWC attack and spread lies through tv appearances, news articles and books against Democrats and anyone who opposed BushInc?

They attacked Gore as a serial liar.

Massive election fraud in 2000.

They attacked recount and claimed Gore tried to steal the election.

They attacked Clintons for months with Clintons trashed the WH and AF1.

They attacked Clinton on terror issue in at least 8 books and hundreds of broadcast appearances that claimed Clinton was to blame for 9-11.

They attacked ALL Democrats as weak on terror issue.

They attacked vets like Cleland claiming he doesn't support the troops.

Massive 2002 election fraud.

They attacked Democrats, like Bill Clinton, who don't understand terrorism and coddle terrorists.

They said Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9-11 was thoroughly debunked.

They said Kerry was lying about Tora Bora as an election ploy.

They said Dean performed abortions.

They said Kerry had an affair.

They said Clark was hated by the military.

They said Dixie Chicks were anti-American.

They said Joe Wilson was a wellknown liar and his wife was not undercover.

They said Dan Rather lied and harrassed CBS to fire him.

They said Kerry didn't earn his Purple Hearts.

Massive 2004 election fraud.

They said Dems who opposed Gonzales and Rice nominations were racist.

They said Dems want to get rid of all people terminally ill or in comas.

They said people on the Gulf Coast were too stupid to leave when Pres. Bush urged them to.

They said Kerry-Feingold and Murtha's withdrawal plans were for cut and run and surrender to terrorists.

They said Alito deserved to be confirmed.

They said global warming is disputed by many scientists.

They said Democrats attack Lieberman because he is brave and supports the troops.

They said Murtha is senile.

They said Kerry insulted the troops.

They said the Libby trial is a political witchhunt.




I am sure there are more attacks from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that I missed - please add.

Let's make it clear that the Right Wing message machine and its conspiring operatives NEVER LEFT the arena, but, instead, grew STRONGER during BushInc's reign.

Only the persistence of those Democratic lawmakers and Democratic ACTIVISTS who stayed on BushInc's case nonstop throughout this time chipped away enough built up teflon to let the public finally begin to see they were being manipulated by the corporate media's IMAGE of Bush and his WH for these last 6 years.

Now that same corporate media is laughing about the idea that the RW conspiracy ever existed - well, if it never existed then how did so many lies and concocted RW talking points make their way into the mainstream media stories of the last 7 years?

[liberal N proud]

1. The last 12 years have been filled with a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

From the moment they decided to attack Clinton

[blm]

2. I think it started in corpmedia by pushing RW lies about McGovern. Then

they tried to plant stories against John Dean. Then they planted stories against Carter. Then they planted many lies in their effort to stop Kerry uncovering IranContra and BCCI. They went after Clinton with lies about everything except what he actually did wrong - his constant protection of Poppy Bush and HIS crimes of office.

[leftofthedial]

3. pretty much everything that happened prior to the 2006 election

and nearly everything that has happened since

[emulatorloo]

4. Kicking and Nominating n/t

[EST]

5. Not to mention the leadup to, invasion and subsequent

occupation of Iraq, the refusal to capture binLaden, the attempt to pull the same stunt on other nations that they did with Iraq, the firing of prosecutors who were more honorable than the average pooplicon, the secret cooperation with the 9-11 plot, the premature killing of New Yorkers and emergency workers through insisting that all was safe, the fucking up of diplomatic relations with China, wrecking the nuclear diplomacy with Korea, destroying our public education with NCLB, filling scotus with more wingnuts, spying on everybody, torture, kidnapping, assassination, wrecking the military, stalling on environmentally friendly energy creation to enrich the rich, hobbling medicare, attempting to destroy social security, pissing off the whole damn world, covering up all sorts of corruption, encouraging pedophilia,----I could go on for an hour without repeating.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. K/R

!!

[wiggs]

7. Many, many here. Courtesy of Dave V on DU. Starting with Stephen Colbert Was Not Funny.

Lost the link, but here's the snippet:

Stephen Colbert was not funny.
Helen Thomas is old and batty.
Mexicans are taking our jobs.
Iraq sent its WMDs to Syria.
Democrats don't want to wiretap terrorists.
Joe Wilson admitted that Valerie Plame wasn't covert.
Tom DeLay is like Jesus Christ.
Karl Rove has a faulty memory.
Scooter Libby has a faulty memory.
No one could have anticipated that the levees would be breached.
We do not torture.
There is no global warming.
There is global warming, but humans aren't causing it.
Howard Dean can't raise money.
John Kerry is a flip-flopper.
George W. Bush is a decider.
John McCain is a straight shooter.
Dick Cheney is a sober shooter.
Nobody at the White House knows Jack Abramoff.
Democrats do.
The economy is doing great.
Evolution isn't supported by the facts.
Diebold voting machines are secure.
Fox News is fair and balanced.
Mission accomplished.
Bill Clinton did it too.
No one could have anticipated the Iraqi insurgency.
The budget deficit will be cut in half in four years.
Anyone who thinks Dubai shouldn't control our ports is racist.
No one who thinks we should build a wall along the Mexican border is racist.
George Allen isn't a racist . . . anymore.
Terry Schiavo wants to live.
Andrea Clark wants to die.
We've turned a corner in Iraq.
There is a war on Christmas.
There is a war on Easter.
There is no civil war in Iraq.
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Bush won Florida in 2000.
Losing by 2 million votes in 2000 is a mandate.
This administration will hold itself accountable.
Brownie did a heck of a job.
Kathleen Blanco never asked for federal help.
Ray Nagin should have used the buses.
Gay couples seek to destroy marriage.
Man existed alongside the dinoraurs.
The earth is 6,000 years old.
America is a Christian nation.
George W. Bush is a Christian man.
George W. Bush is a great guy to have a beer with.
George W. Bush is a war hero. John Kerry isn't.
John Kerry outed Mary Cheney.
John Kerry shot himself in the leg to earn his medals.
Al Gore thinks he invented the Internet. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a communist and a terrible president.
Ronald Reagan was the best president in history.
Hillary Clinton will be the Dem nominee in 2008.
Bill Clinton caused 9/11.
Bill Clinton was offered Bin Laden on a silver platter and turned it down.
Saddam Hussein attacked us on 9/11.
No one could have anticipated airplanes flying into buildings.
We have removed the Taliban from Afghanistan. The Iraqis will welcome us with open arms and flowers.
It could take six days, six weeks - I doubt six months.
Pat Tillman was killed by enemy fire.
Yellow magnet car ribbons help the troops.
The insurgency is in its last throes.
They hate us for our freedom.
The only way to get Zarqawi is to invade Iraq.
We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.
When they stand up, we'll stand down.
Iraqi oil will pay for the war and the reconstruction.
Gas prices are high because of liberal environmentalists.
Gas prices are high because of taxes.
Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge will lower the price of oil.
Unemployment numbers have never been so low.
Outsourcing will create more jobs.
The vast majority of Bush's tax cuts go to the bottom end of the spectrum.
Tax breaks for Hummers are good for the economy.
Tax cuts increase federal revenue.
The estate tax hurts family farms.
Private accounts will save Social Security.
Bush will make health insurance affordable for low-income families.
The Healthy Forests Initiative will help forests.
No Child Left Behind will help children.
The Clear Skies Initiative will reduce air pollution.
Republicans are compassionate conservatives.
Republicans are pro-life.
Nothing is more important in a time of war than cutting taxes.
Democrats hate America.
Hillary Clinton murdered Vince Foster.
"Bin Laden Determined to Strike within the U.S." was a historical document.
The national anthem should only be sung in English.
Jesus would have voted for Bush.
Whenever we say "wiretap," that means we're going to get a court order.
Chris Matthews will not let anything get by him.
George Bush was a successful businessman.
The government is tapping your phone to protect you.
Dissent is unpatriotic.
Valerie Plame is a traitor.
Patrick Fitzgerald is going to indict Joe Wilson.
Jeff Gannon is a serious journalist.
Rush is right.
The media is liberal.
You're either with us or against us.
A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Al Qaeda.
George Bush doesn't read the polls.
Congress had access to the same intelligence.
Iraq is the central front on the war on terrorism.
Republicans are the party of ideas.
Those trucks we found in Iraq were mobile biological weapons labs.
We know where the WMD are.
Anyone who leaks information will no longer be part of this administration.
Sex education causes STDs and increases pregnancy rates.
HPV vaccine will cause teen sex cults.
Harriet Miers would be a great Supreme Court justice.
Vice President Cheney no longer has ties with Halliburton.
Bush will restore honor and integrity to the White House.
Up is down.
Black is white.
Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

Copyright 2006 Daily Kos (and sent by Bill H.)

[blm]

8. VRWC never left - it became more powerful in controlling the corpmedia storylines

and narratives against Democrats.

Thankyou for that list - I hadn't seen it posted before.

[wiggs]

10. This list combined with yours ought to be full page ad in national

newspaper or magazine. I'd contribute.

[glitch]

11. Someone could fill a book listing the lies with a paragraph debunking each.

Could be a bestseller.

[blm]

12. It would definitely annoy the BROADCAST MEDIA who pushed these lies as 'news'

and accepted every storyline Rove constucted for them.

[NDP]

9. The consistent effort by the corporate media to protect George W. Bush

[EVDebs]

13. K Street Project , drowning democracy in the bathtub....nt

[blm]

14. That really is the bottom line and why they push their lies so consistently - their fascist agenda.

Their march towards fascism has been steady and they use their RW message machine to distract from that actual agenda while keeping their enemies under constant attack.

[zbdent]

15. Gee, all those statements bye "the vast Right-Wing conspiracy" sound like

the "mainstream" media ...

[blm]

18. That's the point - RW conspired to push their storylines by gaining control of mainstream media

.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

16. Hats off to BLM and Wiggs. K & R!

This deserves to be on DU's Home page...Admins...Admins...Bueller...

[Dr Fate]

17. They forged & lied their way into a multi-billion dollar, endless war.

But Hillary seems to think it was a mere "intellignece failure"- so I guess that does not count.

[oasis]

19. Jeff Gannon/Talon "news" daily WH press passes. (eom)

[wryter2000]

20. Scott Ritter

They called Scott Ritter a pedophile.

[truedelphi]

25. He was a pedophile! He was!

Don't you remember him fornicating with youngsters amongst mounds of yellowcake right before the yellow cake was turned into nuclear warheads!

Wasn't that the REAL REASON we went to fight in Iraq!

[wryter2000]

21. Swift Boat Vets for "Truth" n/t

n/t

[LSK]

22. your right, it must be our imagination

:sarcasm:

K&R

[quiet.american]

23. FAUX News labeled Foley as a Democrat more than once. n/t

[truedelphi]

24. The VRWC is now taking on Walter Reed

See, those nasty Dems - they are trying to distract us from winning in Iraq by pointing to a superfluous and non-existent issue .

They want us to lose in Iraq! They want us to lose! And we were THIS close to winning when the liberal media started taking photos at Walter Reed.

Nasty photographers, Nasty camera makers. They are allowing Saddam Hussein to come back from the GRAVE! And we had him dead DEAD DEAD for weeks now!

[blm]

26. You just voiced a BIG ONE - Democrats want the US to lose the war on terror.

Democrats want the military to fail.

[endarkenment]

27. Right wing terrorists behind 9-11.

take your pick as to which rightwing terrorists.

[OneBlueSky]

28. how about the entire U.S. government? . . . n/t

.

[bobthedrummer]

29. I haven't changed my basic views about the MSM, it's part of information warfare

blm. Some other things have changed since the installation of this corrupt administration of traitors, war criminals, war profiteers, RW extremists and their ideology of a culture of death.

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