[MD] Contents of Moq_Discuss Digest, Vol 21, Issue 8

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Platt]
The Big Lie, repeated by you and many others on the left, is that 
Bush lied -- a propaganda technique made famous by Joseph Goebbels.

[Arlo]
Platt speaks of the Mighty Wurlitzer, a technique he is very familiar 
with it, as it is deployed just as vigorously by the talk-radio 
blowhards he emulates as it is by politicians, democratic and 
republican. The "Bush Bashing" Wurlitzer, as recently used, is but 
one example. And above, in a distorted effort to smear criticism of 
Bush, Platt demonstrates the Great Pee-Wee Manuever, taking something 
you do and accusing others of the very same. This deflective rhetoric 
technique is used so ad nauseum by Platt, you'd think he'd realize we 
all get it. All I can figure is that in his deluded self-grandiose 
fantasy of playing Limbaugh he forgets that the Pee-Wee is as clear 
as glass. I mean, as if Rove and the right-wing army have not all 
taken many plays from Goebbels playbook. As if that wasn't as plain 
as day to anyone following the news. But, oh no, its just them vile, 
evil "libs", those "far-left radicals" that want to take away your 
freedom, those lying, conniving, deceitful, manipulative "dems" who 
do nothing but "bash" the good, noble, truthful, freedom-loving, holy 
warriors of the neoconservative right. Yeah, that's the way it is. 
Those damned "adulterous" sex-crazed "lefties" and their lack of 
decency, assaulting the family-valued, wholesome honesty and 
integrity of the American Conservative.

What's truly sad is that this is how modern political discourse has 
degraded. Both sides pounding nonsensical one-line Wurlitzers, while 
accusing the other side of the very same thing. You would think those 
engaged in a philosophy discussion forum would rise above such 
pedantic idiocy, but apparently not. I mean, here we are a million 
miles away from the fact that I linked to a video where Bush 
demonstrates his incompetence, an incompetence that should embarrass 
us all, gloriously distracted by the mire of Platt's deceptive 
rhetoric over Bill's blow job. And now its "Clinton lies, Bush never 
lied". Pathetic. Expected, but pathetic.