Mission Control wrote this at around evening time:
Conservative commentator Carl Limbacher was caught lying to a group of young republicans during a speech in Midland, Texas. He said that Democratic Representative John Conyers held a “mock impeachment” of George Bush and suggested that Conyers and other Democrats have set out a vendetta against the president in wartime.
Lies. Lies. Lies. Fear. Fear. Fear.
John Conyers has not held a mock impeachment, whatever that is. He has organized a few important forums to discuss the possible crimes committed by the Bush Administration in the run up to the Iraq War. He also released a summary of his staff’s work called “The Constitution In Crisis” which sets the framework for an investigation into accusations that Bush and his team lied to Congress, which is a felony offense, and misled the American people to attack and occupy an oil-rich nation that posed no immediate threat to the United States of America.
Let’s talk about this in simple terms so that it is easy to explain to others. The Republican (mis)information machine works in a top down manner. At the top is Karl Rove. The middle contains right-wing hacks such as Limbacher, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and arguably the majority of corporate-controlled mainstream media. At the bottom are the loyal republican base, including so-called Christian Conservatives, Conservative Moderates and people without strong opinions on politics.
Here is how Karl Rove does it:
Step 1: Rove dreams up divisive issues, i.e. issues that separate Americans from each other instead of bringing them together. Hopefully they are issues that Republicans poorly manage like national security, health care, civil rights or the environment so that their weaknesses become to appear as their strengths. Three highly successful “dividers” are: the Right to Choose, Immigration and Gay Rights. Rove knows these issues will be contentious offering a chance to set the debate on these topics.
Step 2: Rove spins these issues in a wrapper of hatred, cynicism, racism and bigotry as to motivate people by their inner-most emotional urges rather than their rational minds.
Step 3: Rove adds lots of lies, slanderous statements and misleading characterizations so that it looks like he knows what he is talking about.
Step 4: The right-wing echo machine takes over to incredible effect because of it’s mass reach into a near 100% share of AM radio market, entire news organizations such as Fox News (and others) as well as substantial conservative influence at the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and, of course, “actual” right-leaning papers like the Washington Times.
Step 4b: Accuse all of the media as being “liberally-biased” so no one catches on.
Step 5: Have a stiff drink, shoot some crack, hang out with a gay hooker or do something else you enjoy like commit treason or drop some chemicals on a baby because you just created an opposite reality where your programs seem reasonable to people who are misinformed. Write the words “winning is everything” on the cover of your notebook.
Step 6: Repeat
This business about impeachment is a great example. Despite the fact that a fear-filled Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has come out of the shadows in defiance of her liberal base AGAINST impeachment, and, that John Conyers is seeking to explain his intentions on investigating the president by pandering to fears of being anti-patriotic, most people will nevertheless end up thinking that the Democrats are crazed lunatics on a vendetta to impeach the president and by doing so in a time of “war” will compromise the security of the nation.
All of this pretty much because Karl Rove thinks it will help the Republicans in the November election — and damn the consequences to our nation, ourselves and our children.
Filed under: Blog, In the News, politicsNews, Impeachment Strategy
To promise George Bush and Dick Cheney immunity from impeachment not only paints the Democratic Party as uncaring about violations of our laws but also sends a message to Bush and Cheney that no matter what illegal actions they have already performed or might perform between now and 2008, they are at liberty to continue to violate human rights and will not be prosecuted. And voters will incorrectly assume (as in 2004) that there are no major differences between the two dominant political parties and will subconsciously react to whoever spins the most believable rhetoric.
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