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With an grateful acknowledgement to Fox News for leading the way. The repugs love to play this game of feigned outrage at every imagined slight, or in this case, of a media manipulated one.
What I think we could learn from this is how we can stay on control of framing the debate. Let us give them many more reasons to push their phony outrage with a series of well thought out accusations that in essence truthful but are emphasized with a lot of hyperbole. We should have spokespeople like Matt Damon to issue scathing insults about how our underfunded inner cities are a deliberate attempt to enslave minorities into a live of poverty. (OK, I am not very good at this, but something along those lines that creative people work on).
I think I read somewhere that the Karl Rove playbook states that you attack people by going after their strengths which is what the swiftboat people did to Kerry. Calling a war hero a coward. Well the tea party wants to abolish the department of education, Let us accuse them of promoting a plantation mind set. They want to cut social security and medicare. Accuse them of planning to kill off all the old people as a cost containment measure. If they enjoy using phony outrage as a tactical weapon, let us kill them with it. Metaphorically speaking.
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