ROVE STRATEGY: "Dems Have Gone Too Far W/ Their 9/11 Conspiracy Theories"

[Leopolds Ghost]

The "conspiracy of silence" that applies ordinarily to conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists (i.e. "don't dignify it with a response") has suddenly ceased.

I think Rove has something to do with it. Just a hunch.

Every opportunity to bring up 9/11 is now marked with the following media reactions:

1. Instead of focusing on how Bush has kept us safe, which is played out as a theme, resulting in a loss of interest in the anniversary because of Bush's fearmongering: Fearmonger about the Dems instead of Osama! focus on it as if the Dems may win in November and "Americans must remember what it was like 5 years ago" before doing something they may regret "we all know Dems may win in November but the enemy will still be out there, if America wants to turn inwards and string up Bush that is up to the voters, but Bin Laden will still be out there plotting"

2. Clinton could have stopped Osama (I actually am a bit iffy on this because I said right after 9/11 that EVERYONE could have stopped Osama, it was in the media that he wanted to fly planes in to buildings but the CIA simply dismissed the notion, under both Clinton and Bush, as a crackpot theory! But certainly Clinton thought Osama was more of a threat than Bush did, I bet Bush couldn't even pronounce his name until Sept. 12 which is why he thought for sure it must be Iraq -- the only arab evil guy he was personally familiar with.)

3. "And we have never really talked about it but an awful lot of americans -- some say 45% -- believe the government had something to do with the attacks. And these people are angry and they're voting for Democrats in November. What do you say to those people?"

Something tells me Rove is behind this ingenious imagineering of the 9/11 attacks and these new talking points intented to take the heat off Bush and establish the central theme:

"If you think Bush would have been bad sitting in the oval office on 9/11, you don't know how good you have it.

Your new friends the Dems are conspiracy nuts who don't share your patriotism or respect for the dead, or worse, you could have the very people -- Dems -- who conspired to let it happen on purpose!!" <snip obvious logical contradiction>

[neoblues]

1. Control of the media accords great power...

The power to make small, irrelevant things sound ominous and or imply false implications... and the power to make serious, important and egregious facts/truths seem small and irrelevant. Other distortions of the truth and control over the topic/subject are also enabled by such control.

This is why Democrats, armed with literally hundreds of facts and incidents, all of which should bring the entire country to a state of outrage, are unable to even be heard except when and to the extent to which is convenient for the Republicans.

It's why Republicans can demonize and mischaracterize Democrats consistently and make their efforts to express the truth to the people sound like they're all a bunch of mentally disturbed, irrational trouble makers.

Without full media control, support and especially collusion, Karl Rove couldn't convince more than a handful of people that the world is round. Alas.

[rman]

2. All the more reason to push "9/11 Press for Truth"

"look mom, no conspiracy theories"
http://www.911pressfortruth.com/

[C_U_L8R]

3. bullcrap

9-11 is a nest of republican conspirarcy theories...
just check out the reichwinger sites.. they trot out
jokers like the Northeast(un)Intelligence Network and
jerk off to this freepie crap... most thinly veiled
hatred of dark skinned people. Disgusting.

Rove truly is one big fat turdblossum of lies.

[Leopolds Ghost]

4. Just to be clear... I don't put stock in most of those theories.

I am just pointing out that all of a sudden you're hearing a lot of people trotting them out as if it's some big controversy that hasn't been heard before. Rove has clearly decided to change tack on 9/11 and use it as a wedge issue instead of a fearmongering issue.

Instead of "Dems can't protect you from another 9/11" he wants people
to believe "Dems don't even believe 9/11 happened." It's a smart move.

It sets up a "tar baby" that no Democrat is going to want to touch. Associate any criticism of Bush's performance on 9/11 with the conspiracy theorists.

Can't do that if you're still quashing all the conspiracy talk because people will not have heard anything about the conspiracy theories in question. So they trot them out as a red herring on TV (all of a sudden) and say "OK, Bush didn't do so well on 9/11. You want to know what Dems believe about 9/11? They believe Bush did it!"

What are Dems doing about the fresh new media tactic of portraying 9/11 as the sort of issue Dems are unqualified by definition to handle because "they believe all these conspiracy theories and that's the only reason they're mad at Bush"?