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This may be harsh, Karl, but just because you managed to train a dry drunk to regurgitate every focus-grouped talking point via his teleprompter, don`t think for a minute everyone out here is ripe for your mind-numbing instructions. Corporate media may delight in describing your tactics as "brilliant" but in my view you`re several levels below the self-congatulating snake oil salesman who managed to sell his worthless wares to some desperate woman from Omaha. You remind me of some of these recruiters I`ve been reading about, the ones whose obsession with numbers causes them to trick peach-fuzzed cannon fodder into thinking they`re just going on a fun trip around the world.
You and manipulation are inseparable. Instruct a few well-placed big shots to pepper the dialogue with "mushroom clouds" then "mission accomplished" and the rest is like a Gumby Convention: bend, twist, mold. Probably a third of America would still claim Saddam took flight lessons in Florida. Easy, wasn`t it?
Your experiments caused me to read and reread a paper on the fourteen points of fascism. It`s hardly acceptable to even bring up that up, but the similarities are chilling. The changes you`ve overseen have nothing to do with patriotism and freedom. Instead, we`re seeing a twisted version of King of the Hill, where winning is everything and opposing voices are rendered meaningless.
I`ve heard about the pendulum theory in politics...how things go one way for awhile then swing back in the opposite direction. I think I detect a slight movement away from the putrid mess you created. Maybe Mr. George W. Bush senses the same motion because he mimics it constantly with his lower jaw. If it wasn`t for you erecting barriers between Mr. Bush and the peasants, his outings might reveal a more honest glimpse of reality. No wonder you rely so heavily on cardboard backdrops and phony heroism. A regular champion trickster, you are.
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