From the Back Cover of "Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You" by Paul Waldman
- Portray son of one of America’s most influential families as down-home Texan
- Berate media as "liberal" until they stop asking tough questions
- Take advantage of reporters’ tendency to not check the facts
- Mask reactionary policies in compassionate words and pictures
- Push false stories from right-wing media into mainstream media
- Extol the virtues of workers while systematically pushing an anti-labor agenda
- Propose a series of tax cuts aimed at the wealthy, but sell them as a boon to ordinary Americans
- Disguise destructive initiatives with friendly sounding names
- Befriend media with "genuine guy" routine
- Keep the public from accessing information
- Maintain message discipline at all times
- Question patriotism of anyone who disagrees
- Repeat above until it all seems true
Looks like another Great Bush "bash" book...