Posted on 08/22/2015 9:25:26 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Bobby Jindal earned a poll surge today with a smart piece of political jujitsu.
Unlike most politicos, Jindal understands that a major source of liberal power is their ability to set the narrative.
Since progressives control most of the media and pop culture, they set the terms of the debate. Ferguson, Missouri, has been wracked by violence for a year due to a coordinated lie accusing a racist cop of gunning down an innocent black teen with his hands up, pleading “don’t shoot!” The press lionized a Texas backbencher for bravely defending women’s health, even though Wendy Davis was blocking a bill favored by the wide majority of Lone Star women.
Unable to spin the brutal Planned Parenthood exposé by the Center for Medical Progress, the media has mostly ignored the videos, hoping the grisly footage will just fade away. Instead, the news has issued dire warnings about a conservative threat to Planned Parenthood’s funding for mammograms, cancer screenings, and the few other services the group claims to provide outside of the forbidden A-word.
Jindal pulled his state’s funding of the non-profit earlier this month, so Planned Parenthood decided to hold a raucous protest outside the governor’s mansion in Baton Rouge. Media passed around the info, hoping to gather great B-roll of an eeevil Republican governor oppressing female victims.
A fantastic way to smear not only Jindal, but the entire GOP primary field as out-of-touch meanies.
Most politicians would have ignored the protest as the same old, same old. If a governor responded at all, it would be with an angry counter-protest, which only would generate video of rival mobs screaming at each other in front of his home. But instead of directly attacking the pro-abortion message, Jindal decided to use the strength of the liberals’ narrative against them.
The Japanese term for this technique is jujitsu — literally, “the art of yielding.” Instead of rushing to fight a stronger opponent head-on, a jujitsu fighter wins by co-opting his opponent’s strength. If the attacker throws a devastating punch at your face, you grasp his arm and redirect it to the ground behind you. Sure, the bad guy might be bigger, stronger, and faster, but that power leads to his defeat.
As the pro-Planned Parenthood rally gathers in front of his house, Jindal is setting up a giant outdoor movie screen and playing the sting videos for all to see. All the protesters and reporters will now see the footage. If local media has live coverage, the videos could end up on the nightly news. Now, at the very least, reporters will have to mention the “controversial” videos. Brilliant.
“Planned Parenthood has a right to protest today, but Governor Jindal’s office will ensure that anyone who shows up will have to witness first-hand the offensive actions of the organization they are supporting,” Jindal said in a statement.
That is great! Go Bobby Go!
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[ As the pro-Planned Parenthood rally gathers in front of his house, Jindal is setting up a giant outdoor movie screen and playing the sting videos for all to see. All the protesters and reporters will now see the footage. ]
When i heard about this in my car I damned near drove off the road laughing my hind end off.
Brilliant. Kudos to Jindal. It’s so rare to hear of Republicans being clever like this.
Brilliant. And gutzy.
Very nice.
The Mengelemaniacs don’t care about the videos Gov. Jindal showed because they know that on the fifth-column national and local media nightly propaganda porn, the leftist buttboys and skanks (including Lester, David, and Scott) won’t report on or show any of the videos.
GOD bless Bobby Jindal and having the guts to stand up for what is right.
Awesome move Governor Jindal!
Bobby takes no prisoners.
People are gonna believe what they want to believe, but this is a brilliant response by Jindal.
We’ve got 3 or 4 good candidates in the race.
To me, there’s a lot to like about Jindal. I don’t know what his downsides are, but right now I put him as my #3 choice behind Trump and Cruz.
I like Walker and Paul because they both talk about giving the country back to the states and Paul especially talks about the Constitution, but Paul’s attack strategy has backfired since that is not his strength and now he just looks like he’s eating sour grapes. Paul doesn’t communicate very effectively, but what he has to say is usually very good except for his somewhat rigid and convoluted foreign policy views. Walker seems like a work in progress - not sure where he’s headed.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Constitution MUST be front and center in ANY debate or discussion regarding the feds becasue the Constitution is the ONLY legitimate source of federal power. The Constitution is rarely mentioned EXCEPT when the Left finds it convenient to further their argument.
It is up to freedom-loving and America-loving candidates to be at least as cleaver as the snakes on the Left by re-setting the narrative back to the Constitutionality of ANY federal action, including Obamacare (socialized medicine is patently unconstitutional) and federal interference with state anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage law (all of which is unconstitutional federal activity).
Trump needs to involve himself more in the dismantling of the unconstitutional portion of the feds (probably about 80%).
My wife and I were commenting that he was among our top picks for president.
The list: Cruz, Trump, Carson, and Jindal
the pro-Planned Parenthood rally gathers in front of his house, Jindal is setting up a giant outdoor movie screen and playing the sting videos for all to see. All the protesters and reporters will now see the footage. If local media has live coverage, the videos could end up on the nightly news. Now, at the very least, reporters will have to mention the “controversial” videos. Brilliant.
This should have been the first paragraph.
Check-Mate for Gov. Jindal.
Geaux, Bobby, Geaux!!!!
Brilliant
Bobby Jindal, a Rhodes scholar, both brilliant and [some do not realize] possessing of a great sense of humor too, is an avid pro-lifer and a convert to Catholicism. A couple of quotes of interest follow from his book “Leadership and Crisis”:
“In my view there is an easy, universal barometer we can use to evaluate all cultures: how do they treat their most vulnerable members...those whom Jesus so aptly referred to as ‘the least of these’? I would go so far as to say that a society that does not...defend the defenseless, [protect] all human life, is really not a civilized society after all. As for all my pro-choice friends out there, we can agree to disagree...and keep on arguing (until I win).” -Bobby Jindal, from “Leadership and Crisis”
“[After reading] all 700 verses of [Hindu Scripture’s] “Bhagavad Gita,” I dug out...the unread Bible my friend Kent had given me, and [due to my parents’ objections] sat in the closet and read from Genesis to the end. [Still] I had no epiphany...[until later] watching a simple black and white film about the crucifixion. I suddenly realized that Christ was on the cross because of me—my sins—what I had done, what I failed to do. He didn’t die for billions, which was so abstract, but because of me. Suddenly God was tangible [and] everything instantly came into focus.” -Bobby Jindal, from “Leadership and Crisis”
Go Bobby Go!
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