Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Obama's Sins Emerging Clearly
Obfuscation Tactics
Let me see, how many obfuscation tactics are available to deflect the import of documented sins if one is totally ruthless? Here is a short and incomplete list that can appear at any stage in any order! These tactics hold for office holders and for defenders of the faith! Some have already appeared!
1. Shoot the messenger! First thing they do; check!
2. Shoot the author! Second thing!; check!
3. Call the collected data a “hit piece” by biased people!; check!
4. Call the evidence to be somehow tainted!; TBD
5. Pick one accusation and find a supposed flaw, which is then used to try to discredit the entire set; TBD
6. Assure the silence of key potential witnesses; UNKN
7. Stonewall each accusation, and hide the data; UNKN
8. Blanket denials, lies and destroy the evidence (illegal in itself!); UNKN
9. Use executive privelege to deny access to data; check
10. Simply deny access and ignore court orders, etc; check
11. Bush did it; check
12. Bush did it too!; check
13. Other excuses; TBD
13. Clinton did it; check
14. X group or X individual did it, not me; check
15. Mount a counter argument that deflects the thrust; check
16. Assume the authority and challenge questioners; check
17. Publish counter reports from a biased perspective; check
18. Tie up the arguments in definitional problems and legal snares; check
19. Tie up the arguments in alternate interpretations of laws; check
Instances of most of these tactics are documented in Limbaugh’s book: “Crimes Against Liberty.”
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Let me see, how many obfuscation tactics are available to deflect the import of documented sins if one is totally ruthless? Here is a short and incomplete list that can appear at any stage in any order! These tactics hold for office holders and for defenders of the faith! Some have already appeared!
1. Shoot the messenger! First thing they do; check!
2. Shoot the author! Second thing!; check!
3. Call the collected data a “hit piece” by biased people!; check!
4. Call the evidence to be somehow tainted!; TBD
5. Pick one accusation and find a supposed flaw, which is then used to try to discredit the entire set; TBD
6. Assure the silence of key potential witnesses; UNKN
7. Stonewall each accusation, and hide the data; UNKN
8. Blanket denials, lies and destroy the evidence (illegal in itself!); UNKN
9. Use executive privelege to deny access to data; check
10. Simply deny access and ignore court orders, etc; check
11. Bush did it; check
12. Bush did it too!; check
13. Other excuses; TBD
13. Clinton did it; check
14. X group or X individual did it, not me; check
15. Mount a counter argument that deflects the thrust; check
16. Assume the authority and challenge questioners; check
17. Publish counter reports from a biased perspective; check
18. Tie up the arguments in definitional problems and legal snares; check
19. Tie up the arguments in alternate interpretations of laws; check
Instances of most of these tactics are documented in Limbaugh’s book: “Crimes Against Liberty.”
Reply
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Labels: Blockers, Corruption, Democrats, Fiscal Responsibility, Honesty, Integrity, Limbaugh, Obama, Politics and Iraq, Radicalism
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Rush and Sean are Commentators, not Leaders!
Do you really believe that Rush is our wise leader?
Most commentators from the Right are apparently looking for the sensational, the appalling, and the frightening to report on about our condition here in the US. Those stories build audiences. The unfortunate thing is, they find such true and frustrating stories day after day when observing the throes of liberal government and the antics of other political animals in the DC zoo. The Left feeds the sensationalism!
The picture they present is of a failing nation, and failing politicos, and then sometimes provide their version of a solution to this or that, which quite often does not ring true. Or, it rings true, but in the prevailing scene, their solution is virtually impossible to implement without a major revolution.
If you integrate over their years of pontification, and filter out the over-the-top comments, some sense of a real conservative attitude and direction emerges, but to take their instant prescriptions as gospel is a schoolboy mistake.
I claim that many, if not most, listeners use their common sense and their filters to come to rational conclusions about our problems, and I do not believe that all that many of them consider any of these commentators to be honest-to-God wise leaders of the conservative movement—merely entertaining spokesmen that do pinpoint quite well certain areas created by the Left that do need our serious attention. Thus leftist tempers rise!
The meme that Rush leads the movement is a typical Leftist attempt to trivialize the Right, and, to be honest, it is somewhat effective. But, his audience of millions have not validated this meme, because they know his real status all too well, and Rush himself has rejected the meme as silly.
Many that want to continue to trivialize the Right hammer away at Rush, Sean, and the other’s memes, for they believe it helps either the sensible Right, or the giddy Left to know the “truth”. Evidently, they resent the fact that these men have found an audience that listens avidly every day, even as these listeners readily discount in their minds that which is impossible and invalid from that which is possible and valid.
We should have more faith in the citizenry on the Right, and some independents, to think things through. Sorry, I cannot say the same for citizens on the left that have helped to push us to the edge of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi–fostered financial cliff–and probably over!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Some Opinions:
Conservatism
Limbaugh said it correctly if you listened and chose not to grab a statement out of context. He wants Obama to fail in his economic and social policies, because they are simply wrong. They are not conservative policies. End of story.
The Obama Sadga (Sad Saga)
Obama intends to sign the Omnibus Bill with its 9,000 earmarks, citing that it is old business. This is BS: it is his signature now that puts the provisions in force, so Obama is condoning once again a huge chunk of earmarks, and a nice chunk of pork and payoffs with our tax money. Funny how he can backtrack on his campaign promises at will, and does so all too frequently. What happened to “transparency of government” for instance? A further sad note: over 40% of the earmarks are from Republicans. We need to do away with earmarks altogether.
Labels: Earmarks, Limbaugh, The Obama Sadga
