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A gaffe by a Republican is blown out of proportion, because the MSM piles on,

This is undeniably true. But it is made worse by Republican "leaders" giving the MSM ammunition.

Of course, Republicans rush to be the first to attack other Republicans BECAUSE they are afraid that the MSM will attack them, too.

So the dynamic is the idea that if Republicans attack other Republicans they will be granted immunity from being attacked themselves by the MSM.

And so the MSM doesn't even have to do the attacking. They get other Republicans to do it for them.

Conservatives need to be very clear about one thing; the mainstream media are largely composed of persons who attended Leftist leaning colleges, and never had either the intelligence or the character to challenge the fallacy based dogma that the faculty were pushing. Trying to humor the bias of the lot is sheer madness. What we need are candidates who can speak in depth on television & radio, in terms that refute the prevailing fallacies that the Leftist media take for granted.

There are certain basic techniques involved in this. You trip levers of credibility, which help free the public from the stereotypes being imposed upon them, by calling their attention to basic experiences that we have all had. Those experiences do not conform with the Leftist theories.

Rove does not do this; does not provide the funding for those who can do this, to do so. Rather, he chases after ways to humor the erroneous false perceptions that the parrots in the mass media have created. It is a suicidal path.

William Flax

Let me get this straight. Suppose you are a candidate for public office. You say you are a ‘true’ conservative.

In a public speech, you say something like: “Hitler was right, even if he was a little extreme. The Jews are responsible for most of our economic woes and are able to hide their influence because they also control the MSM and the entertainment world of TV and movies.”

1. You don’t think Republicans should rush to disassociate themselves and the party from such trash talk?

2. You think all Republicans ought to rally around you for this teensy weensy gaffe like the Democrats do? Don’t we have more integrity than that? We always claim we do.

3.I don’t give a rat’s ass if the Dems rally around their idiots. I don’t want to be like a Dem. apologist.