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GORE REVEALS GOP PLOT!
Yahoo ^ | Dec 1, 2002 | William F. Buckley Jr.

Posted on 11/30/2002 9:38:31 PM PST by Dallas

The Republican Party gets an idea -- let's say to drill for oil in Alaska. A GOP operative is designated to pass that idea along to the thought-factories the GOP controls.

Somebody calls Rush Limbaugh. Then The Washington Times. Then Fox News. Then George Will. The marching order goes something like this:

"Fellow gangsters: There is oil in parts of Alaska. If we drill for that oil, we can get contributions to the GOP from the people who get the drilling contracts. Subsequently, from the people who build pipelines to transport the oil. And ever after, from the sale of that oil to -- well, gas stations, that sort of thing. GET THE WORD OUT. Dress it up. You know, oil is scarce, the American people need oil. Etc. etc. etc.

"You -- Rush -- dress that up in populist language, talk about the great American spirit of adventure and development. You -- George -- put that in fancy historical language, the stuff about manifest destiny, etc. You -- gentlemen at Fox -- talk about the news effect of Alaskan oil exploration, how it will diminish the egos in the Mideast. That sort of thing. I hardly need tell you how to do it. Just do it."

But the networking has been exposed now. In the days of Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) wasn't able to pin it down with archaeological precision. For that reason, Al Gore lost the election. But now that he has recovered from that loss, shaved his beard and written a new book, he is back on the scene with a sure-enough afflatus: the Republican National Committee (news - web sites), on through the networkers, resulting in -- a new zeitgeist!

Mr. Gore, in a recent news conference, got quite specific on the matter. He was so enthusiastic about his revelation that he lost complete control of his language. But that didn't matter. It wasn't as if he was captaining a 747 landing, which calls for razor-sharp precision. In his interview with The New York Observer, Al Gore said that Fox, The Washington Times and Rush Limbaugh -- "there's a bunch of them" -- are, some of them, "financed by wealthy ultraconservative billionaires." Non-wealthy billionaires are presumably too busy trying to become wealthy billionaires to give much time to politics.

Sen. Tom Daschle, picking his fight with Rush Limbaugh, spoke of the "shrill rhetoric of conservative talk radio." Shrill rhetoric is the kind of language used by those who are exploited by wealthy ultraconservative billionaires. And then Al Gore is telling us that the effect of the vast right-wing conspiracy is -- well, let him tell it: "They'll create a little echo chamber, and pretty soon they'll start baiting the mainstream media for allegedly ignoring the story they've pushed into the zeitgeist."

Pushed into the zeitgeist! How do you do that? Affect the spirit of the age? Does Coca-Cola know how to do that? Burger King? Muhammad?

Back to oil in Alaska. Are we hearing that the other side hadn't had its say in the matter? Yet drilling for oil in Alaska was first proposed about 25 years ago, and permission to proceed has not yet been granted. Is that because the zeitgeist was being stalled by the Clinton-Gore administration before the wealthy billionaires finally took over and handed policy-making to Rush Limbaugh?

Persisting with the language of Al Gore, he explains: "Pretty soon the mainstream media goes out and disingenuously takes a so-called objective sampling, and lo and behold, these RNC talking points are woven into the fabric of the zeitgeist."

We're being told that the people who take polls and say that half the country is in favor of drilling for oil in Alaska rigged those so-called objective polls. They present the polls "disingenuously," pass them off as popular writ, like a lot of election polls. In other words, they know they're cheating. But what does that matter to them? Just so they do what the wealthy billionaires want.

Is this stuff going to work? The Democratic leadership just can't stand it that the conservative critique is making headway in America. They preferred it the way it used to be,


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1 posted on 11/30/2002 9:38:31 PM PST by Dallas
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To: Dallas
Is the possession of "afflatus" afflatulence?
2 posted on 11/30/2002 9:45:15 PM PST by calenel
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To: Dallas
I forgot how the funny and insightful the great Bill Buckley can be. (repectful nod to the intellectual Godfather of many an intellectual Republican)
3 posted on 11/30/2002 9:45:33 PM PST by friendly
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To: Dallas
The only thing "GORE REVEALS" is dirty underwear.....
4 posted on 11/30/2002 9:47:23 PM PST by cmsgop
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To: Dallas

No. It's simply too much of an insult to the intelligence of the listener to be taken seriously.

IMO, what would work is a sharp move to the right and follow in the footsteps of more "Conservative" Democrats like JFK.

But they are too busy trying to draw distinctions between themselves and the Republicans to attempt this.

5 posted on 11/30/2002 9:48:31 PM PST by Jhoffa_
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To: Dallas
You gotta love Bill Buckley.

As for Weird Algore's conspiracy theory, I distinctly remember hearing Mary Matalin talk about how her hubby James "Serpenthead" Carville spends all day down in the basement of her home faxing to and receiving faxes from the DNC, the Clinton White House and other DemocRAT organizations. This was back in the day when Mary had a talk radio show.

So, as usual, a D-RAT is accusing the GOP of engaging in the very activities that they (the RATS) are engaging in.

6 posted on 11/30/2002 9:49:37 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: Dallas
Watching liberals is a hoot. If you allow them to they will confess all their sins to you, reveal all their plans and strategies, as Gore and Daschle just did. They just project those sins onto others.
7 posted on 11/30/2002 9:49:52 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot
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To: Dallas

BEYOND THEMSELVES DESPARATION

It is like a card game. And the dems fixed the cards when Bush was out of the room and they can't understand where their ace of spades trump card went!

They thought they had a trump card through cheating and lies and the Joker popped up!

So they are bewildered to the point of utter childish blame games.

8 posted on 11/30/2002 9:51:19 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: Dallas
Lockbox Zeitgeist would be a good name for a band
9 posted on 11/30/2002 10:02:33 PM PST by Honcho Bongs
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To: Dallas
Is this stuff going to work?

It shouldn't but you hear Freepers
go on about Dem disruptors and
Bush's secret plan to run a conservative
government by doing liberal things.
What's not to believe?
10 posted on 11/30/2002 10:10:06 PM PST by gcruse
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To: Dallas
I usually find Buckley high-brow and tedious to read, but this essay was very fun to read and really shows how absurd the Gore and the DemoRats have become.
11 posted on 11/30/2002 10:15:44 PM PST by freedom1st
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To: Dallas
"Fellow gangsters"

This is your bolshevik puppetmaster...Open the borders... prevent drilling in Alaska...race bait...scare old folks... dumb down you kids...I'll send complete list later...go forth as I have instructed Comrade Gore and remember...stick to the talking points.

12 posted on 11/30/2002 10:16:15 PM PST by alphadog
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To: Dallas
Thank you Mr. Buckley.
13 posted on 11/30/2002 10:19:12 PM PST by Aleutian Longliner
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To: Dallas
This is so funny.

They answer Iraq by going there to speak out against the US.

They answer the death of Wellstone by throwing a party on his casket.

They answer the SS problem with silence.

They answer the tanking economy with tax hikes.

They answer Osama with muted cries for restraint.

They answer Bush's approval ratings by calling him stupid.

They answer our need for energy self sufficency with promises not to drill for oil.

They answer the problem of overpaid, lifetime bureacrats clogging up Washington by saying they can't be fired.

BUT! They lost the election because of Rush Limbaugh, the Washington Times and Fox News.

Oh right.. This is so insulting I can't believe Gore would risk saying it.

In addition to this he seems primed to answer our leading healthcare system with socialized medicine, though it cost them Congress during his tenure as VP.

What kind of a fantasy world do they live in? Who is developing the political strategy for these people, the Ham-burgular?

14 posted on 11/30/2002 10:27:33 PM PST by Jhoffa_
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
"If you allow them to they will confess all their sins to you, reveal all their plans and strategies, as Gore and Daschle just did. They just project those sins onto others."

Whenever they know that their lies and sly plans will be oncovered they start by accusing the opposition of the very things they are doing or will do. Worked for a while.

Godspeed, The Dilg
15 posted on 11/30/2002 10:30:50 PM PST by thedilg
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To: thedilg
God, O'yes, I said GOD BLESS U.S., 1-and ALL!!
16 posted on 11/30/2002 10:37:25 PM PST by Y2Krap
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To: Y2Krap
al gore = Demo-CRAPS!!!!!!!!!
17 posted on 11/30/2002 10:39:22 PM PST by Y2Krap
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To: Y2Krap
Amen!
18 posted on 11/30/2002 11:32:13 PM PST by thedilg
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To: Texas Eagle
Yep...

The Democratic party cannot operate without centralization and micro-management.

They therefore assume that is what Conservatives do.

The health of Decentralization....they cant comprehend it.
19 posted on 11/30/2002 11:45:12 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: Jhoffa_
Great post.
20 posted on 11/30/2002 11:46:50 PM PST by VaBthang4
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