This White House believes good PR is better than resolving the issue...

[kentuck]

Whether it be Medicare, NSA spying, or even the war in Iraq. It is more important for them to spin it than to actually do something about it. They don't have to be honest with the people. They don't even have to be honest with themselves. Just say we are spreading democracy throughout the Middle East. Spin the hell out of it. Just don't tell the truth.

[unblock]

1. hell, they think ANY pr is better than resolving the issue!

they don't even think in terms of resolving the issue at all!
it's ALL about pr. and the embezzlement....

[opihimoimoi]

2. BushCo is confirmation the Pub Agenda is BS

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Check out Katrina. Nothing happens until negative PR about it reaches

some critical low point, like the widespread broadcast of the video showing shrubby getting his briefing.

THEN we get a little PR blitz, shrub going down for some photo ops and a speech or two. Holding a little black baby, how nice!

But then he's gone, and it's only PR. No action, same old.

[Solly Mack]

4. It works

not on everyone - but enough

As long as people do not look beyond the glitter - the bright shiny keys will be all they ever see.
Especially if the PR is in keeping with what they want to be true - with what they want to believe is real or factual.

Also, disinformation (spin)is an intentional counter to the truth - it misdirects and a debate, phoney debate, is born. (This happened and here's how/why. No, this didn't happen and here's how/why)

it's a play on reasonable doubt

Here's a fact. (No WMD)
Here's a counter to that fact.(They moved the WMD)

create doubt - and some people will cling to the he said /she said and never really look at the facts.


disinformation is designed to create information overload...so people will end up saying "no one really knows the truth" or "we'll never know the truth" - even when a fact ( a truth) is well established

because if you can't really know the truth - then the truth becomes less important to the big picture.

even though the fact is - the big picture is shaped by the truth... and the lies.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Apparently it goes for global warming too. Global warming isn't

going to go away because of a half ass PR campaign.