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The Democrats' Big Lie
American Thinker ^ | August 13, 2011 | Victor Volsky

Posted on 08/13/2011 7:32:49 AM PDT by radioone

There are very few things the left is really good at, but one of them is propaganda, its bread and butter, the biggest arrow in its quiver. While extolling "the working class", the socialist movement has always been an almost exclusive preserve of radical intellectuals. These people, whose primary habitat is the ivory towers of academia, are far removed from reality. They spend their lives talking non-stop, engaging in verbal games and coming up with slogans and catch-words and phrases, sometimes quite ingenious. You have to admit that the NYT's headline "General Betray Us" mocking Gen. Petraeus, while sickeningly impudent, was very good as a cute piece of propaganda.

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1 posted on 08/13/2011 7:32:51 AM PDT by radioone
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To: radioone

“Ask the liberal spouting any of the above for proof that, say, Sarah Palin is an idiot or Barack Obama an intellectual giant, and the answer would be a puzzled stare —”

I get more lies.
So, being that I suffer fools far less gladly than in my youth, I use some oft-repeated phrase to extricate myself from the toxic stupor that is the liberal ‘brain’...

- “I’m sorry you feel that way.”
- “I know what you mean, I USED TO think that way myself.”
and if others are listening...
- “If I agreed with you, we’d BOTH be wrong.”

You can’t reason with crazy.


2 posted on 08/13/2011 7:42:02 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: radioone
You have to admit that the NYT's headline "General Betray Us" mocking Gen Petraeus...

It wasn't a NYT headline. It was a moveon.org ad, if I remember correctly. Nothing like blowing your credibility right out of the gate.

3 posted on 08/13/2011 7:43:42 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: radioone

The Democrats’ big lie is that they’re Democrats. They’re Socialists who have overtaken the DNC.


4 posted on 08/13/2011 7:46:33 AM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: radioone
David Axelrod is a student of all of these types of propaganda techniques, and has opened a huge AstroTurf manufacturing facility in Chicago. With his “expertise” and a $1B+ war chest for Mr. Soetoro, this is going to be the ugliest, most personal, vindictive election cycle in the history of the Republic.

The GOOD NEWS here, and it is under-reported in the lapdog media, is that even with $30M in campaign money going into the recall in Wisconsin, the well-funded unions LOST and LOST BIG. Maybe the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party - and the baseline theme of smaller government, lower taxes, and return to founding principles - will carry the day against world-class propagandists like Axelrod and ridiculously ginormous campaign coffers, coupled to a weak-as-a-kitten and ineffective leader like Barry.

5 posted on 08/13/2011 7:47:41 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: SERKIT

DA and BO may have to spend 10 to 1 to get the same impact as Pubbie ads next November. Their cred is so dilluted, poisoned, and spoiled.


6 posted on 08/13/2011 7:51:18 AM PDT by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will have more quality executive experience than Barack Obama.)
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To: radioone; All

We always need to remember .. although the left is always touting saving the middle class, what it really wants to do is DESTROY the middle class.

WHY ..??

BECAUSE YOU CANNOT HAVE TYRANNY UNTIL YOU DESTROY THE MIDDLE CLASS.

Check any socialist or 3rd world country - 2 classes of people - those who rule - those who are slaves to the rulers.

This is the main reason why the left hates the Tea Party.


7 posted on 08/13/2011 7:51:51 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth".)
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To: Minn
"It wasn't a NYT headline." He may not have been perfectly correct, but a majority of Freepers would understand what was being said in the article, and that the Democrats/Liberals/Progressives are a bunch of serial liars who will stop at nothing to retain their iron grip on the economy and their power in Washington. And if they have to smear the name of a very fine General who has served his country for decades they have no reservations about doing it!
8 posted on 08/13/2011 7:54:21 AM PDT by radioone (Capitalism does More with Less, Government does Less with MORE...)
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To: radioone

They very often don’t know they’re lying. Conservatives tend to assume that because we can see the big picture and use critical thinking to understand it, liberals/Dems can too. That is a mistake. An awful lot of Dems can’t reason their way out of a brown paper bag. They’ve self-lobotomized their critical/rational thinking capabilities. Yes, in times past, such as Nazi Germany, propagandists were well aware of what they were doing. Modern Dems are far less so. A lot of what they say they actually believe. Cognitive Dissonance is a way of life for them.

Honestly, I know what I’m talking from personal interaction. The level of raw, rank, stupifying ignorance in modern-day liberalism is just mind boggling. They look at facts and simply cannot process them if they disturb in any way the assumptions/memes upon which modern liberalism rests. It’s scary but true. Even ‘smart’ liberals come across as moronically stupid if you actually try to reason with them—and again, I know what I’m talking about.

To give just one example. I engaged in a months-long exchange with a brilliant [on a purely IQ basis, nothing more] feminist liberal far-leftist based in Seattle. She thought she was being so uber-smart when she explained that ‘evil’ doesn’t really exist. I eviscerated that one with one hair-raising example, yet the only effect was for her to ignore that discussion and try to take the conversation elsewhere. If there’s a bright spot, at least she wasn’t an Obamaphile. She backed Hillary.


9 posted on 08/13/2011 8:04:20 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: radioone
He may not have been perfectly correct

When writing a piece commenting on the lies of others, getting your simple facts strait is a real good idea. No?

10 posted on 08/13/2011 8:16:16 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: radioone
The left not only does not understand the concept of wealth creation, they are openly hostile to it. Much of the blame lies in our education system. Every year the tax payer funds and subsidizes an education system that turn out tens of thousands of graduates with degrees in majors that will never create a dime or return one cent of value to society. These parasitic graduates feed off of society for the rest of their lives actively trying to destroy their host.
11 posted on 08/13/2011 8:17:25 AM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Fantasywriter

“Cognitive Dissonance is a way of life for them.”

No truer words were ever written. “Believing your own bullsh!!t” is a cruder version.


12 posted on 08/13/2011 8:23:28 AM PDT by pingman (Durn tootin'; I like Glock shootin'!)
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To: radioone
"Ask the liberal spouting any of the above for proof that, say, Sarah Palin is an idiot or Barack Obama an intellectual giant, and the answer would be a puzzled stare -- why, everyone knows that she is a moron and he a towering intellect, so it must be true. Just repeat your slogan often enough, and once embedded in the minds of the people the mantra becomes reality for them"

Just a little tweak to this assertion - since the 'liberal mind' is, by definition, faulty - they don't have or need proof for their dogma - they also don't need proof for these slogans. The conservative mind is a little more discerning.

13 posted on 08/13/2011 8:24:59 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: pingman

You have a way with words! And yes, you said it well.


14 posted on 08/13/2011 8:25:40 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: radioone

Propaganda has been with us since before the fall:

Gen 3:4

And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death. Darby Bible Translation And the serpent said to the woman,


15 posted on 08/13/2011 8:38:37 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: jimfree
The "force multipliers" that DA and BO will use are targeted ballot shenanigans, "walkin' around money", and a bank of attorneys who will go after all opponents (like having a judge unseal your opposition's divorce decrees, hide BO's public records, etc). They already have the lapdog media, so they will get "free" campaign ads via supposed "news items", so that will save them a lot of money.

We need to create REAL grassroots opposition, knowing full well that DA will stomp it down with lawsuits, counter-ads, and AstroTurf.

16 posted on 08/13/2011 8:55:50 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: Fantasywriter
at least she wasn’t an Obamaphile. She backed Hillary.

Six of one, half dozen of the other.

17 posted on 08/13/2011 9:01:25 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: Minn

MoveOn.org, NYT little difference.


18 posted on 08/13/2011 9:36:28 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obama get our AAA back.)
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To: radioone

Yes, it is the one new thing about their tyranny -— the ability to lie, the cleverness of their lying. They say one thing and do they opposite.

they do something terrible and then accuse their enemies of having done that very thing.

this is new and different; the Nazi’s just went roaring around with “We’re big and tough and we’re going to kill you if you don’t submit and we’re going to kill all the Jews!! We’re hero-warriors and we’re going to bash you to bits if you don’t do what we say! We’re going to conquer the world!!”

Communists would murder millions and their propaganda would cry out that Capitalism was murdering millions. They destroyed russian agriculture and sent out films of happy communal farm girls dancing with tractors. They rationed food and claimed that workers in capitalist countries were starving.And on and on.

New indeed.


19 posted on 08/13/2011 9:43:06 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: spankalib

You said to liberals (”you cant reason with crazy”):
“I’m sorry you feel that way.”
- “I know what you mean, I USED TO think that way myself.”
and if others are listening...
- “If I agreed with you, we’d BOTH be wrong.”

Love your replies!


20 posted on 08/13/2011 9:51:59 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (Anarchy IS the strategy of the forces of darkness!)
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