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A selective use of the facts is known as "card-stacking." It's a tool of propagandists. While the facts may not be in dispute, the conclusion led to by the preselection is not necessarily honest.

How is this information "selective"? According to MJY, the graphics are showing up and being enjoyed by Democrats on DU. Period. Take it for what it's worth.

Propagandists use another tool - and that's hiding information. If this is the plain truth, there's no reason to break out in hives over it. Nobody here thinks the creator of this anti-Bush stuff is really a Democrat. What they might think is that his materials are being used by the opposition - and whether they think that's good or bad probably depends on whether they, too, have a problem with this Republican president.

I'm amazed at the reaction you guys are having to this. Talk about "kill the messenger". Sheesh!

I have to go now - but I really don't have anything more to say about this anyway.

If this is the plain truth, there's no reason to break out in hives over it. Nobody here thinks the creator of this anti-Bush stuff is really a Democrat. What they might think is that his materials are being used by the opposition - and whether they think that's good or bad probably depends on whether they, too, have a problem with this Republican president.

I think it's bad when Republicans provide ammunitiuon to the opposition.
For illustration, in this forum I've often encountered the justification, "we're taking the Democrats' issues from them," whenever President Bush makes a leftward turn. I and other posters have suggested that instead, these actions concede the premise of the issue to the Democrats, as they use the Presidents actions as justification for demanding even harder Leftist turns.
An example...

Bush Proposes Doubling U.S. Support for Education in Africa
Gene Sperling, former President Clinton's chief White House economic adviser and now head of the Center for Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations, said 75 million of the children out of school worldwide are in Africa.
"The Bush announcement proposes spending $20 million more each year for education in all of Africa, which is the cost of building just one large high school in the United States," Sperling said. "This proposal is very disappointing."

There was another example on one of the $500 million African AIDS theads last week, but somehow the whole thread got deleted. Lotta that going around.
Bush's Section 245(i) Amnesty trick is another example. Americans are in no mood for another Amnesty. There was no groundswell for it, it wasn't on the radar. Then Bush tries to have it attached to the Homeland Defense bill this Spring, and there's an uproar.
So the Democrats pull it and are now working an a 245(i) Amnesty proposal of their own.
Doesn't really seem like the President has taken their issues away, does it?