What venal person turns a day of remembrance into a sales pitch?

[omega minimo]

If his eyes keep getting closer together, we'll be calling him "Cyclops."

It's odd watching someone speak (in Good Ol' Boy Vernackular) as if they have no concept beyond the Ivory Tower and the Silver Spoon.


COME ON DOWN AMERICA HAVE WE GOTTA DEAL FER YEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anybody see Dick choke up at the Pentagon?

Touching.
:sarcasm:

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

1. This guy might...

[omega minimo]

2. Curiouser and curiouser

:thumbsdown:

Thom Hartmann said today "we are in the age of PROPAGANDA."


Indeed.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

3. He's right. I think BushCo spends a great...

...deal of time and money trying to figure out how to get the masses to go along with taking over the world.

[omega minimo]

4. Tonight's performance was actually quite forceful and well executed

to the point of mind-numbing incomprehension, which seems to be the objective. * actually mastered some big sentence struc-ture-s and e-nun-ci-ate-d e-ffec-tiv-ely (altho he still said "nukular").

The visuals: who correographed the hand jive?

And :wtf: was up with that (literally) twisted flag on the right side of the screen? Shades of The X-Files "fat little Nazi stormtroopers"........................

[Hidden Stillness]

5. "All I Remember is I was the Center of the Universe That Day"

..."The War President."

The answer to your question is, "Those who love 'framing.' " They think of these things, call them "framing," and they love it. Others think of these things and call them "lies," and they hate it. They reject Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural, and Franklin Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" and First Inaugural Address, and instead prefer, "HEAD ON...APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE HEADACHE." Notice also, yet another great Keith Olbermann commentary tonight, which was actually stirring and eloquent, and feel the painful distance between true protest, and some lazy, stupid "ad campaign." I know you already know these things, but still it gets clearer all the time--unless you don't want to know.

It is the type of person who has no more of a reaction to the day of remembered tragedy as to any other photo-op, the one who has no conscience, no interest, for whom everything is just a TV show, and all is reduced to sameness; a sociopath for whom the world only exists as a mirror to reflect them, an audience to applaud them, or servants to handle the real work for them. The world of slogans has no relation whatsoever to the world of public service and historical meaning, but they don't care. They win by brutal oppression and crime, then claim they won by "their wits" or by "being popular." Everything they do is a lie, on every day.

[omega minimo]

6. And there's the key

"It is the type of person who has no more of a reaction to the day of remembered tragedy as to any other photo-op, the one who has no conscience, no interest, for whom everything is just a TV show, and all is reduced to sameness; a sociopath for whom the world only exists as a mirror to reflect them, an audience to applaud them, or servants to handle the real work for them. The world of slogans has no relation whatsoever to the world of public service and historical meaning, but they don't care. They win by brutal oppression and crime, then claim they won by "their wits" or by "being popular." Everything they do is a lie, on every day".

"...no more of a reaction to the day of remembered tragedy as to any other photo-op....everything is just a TV show,...a sociopath for whom the world only exists as a mirror to reflect them, an audience to applaud them...The world of slogans has no relation whatsoever to the world of public service and historical meaning, but they don't care.....Everything they do is a lie, on every day."

Let's boil it down some more..........

Photo-op, TV show, reflect them, audience, slogans, lie, every day....................

All of this brought to you BY..... Television!!! The VidScreen!! They can even see YOU through the hitech screens now.........

What if we all turned off The Box? Totally? All of us.

No arguments about ratings and who's got a Neilsen box or not and whether boycotts are effective or not......

All of us.

The only way that this regime is possible and the only way it continues and the only way it was installed in the first place is by the power of Television.

Our refusal to pay attention would get their attention.

*

Re: Framing. The people who go for that know that it's bullshit/marketing even while they insist that it is "truth." It's the same game of assuming that everyone ELSE is the duped sucker sheeple type that needs to be coddled and hoodwinked into comprehending "truth" which framing reduces to mere "truthiness." And they haven't figured out that they will NEVER beat the lying cheating Roveheads at their own game.

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What Olbermann is doing that blows everyone (and the mirrored smoke) away is telling Truth. The opposite of framing.

[omega minimo]

7. Good piece by WillPitt who did not turn on the TV yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2116099

"The river knows"