I just finished watching some of the morning news shows and I want to throw up. The Republican spinmasters were out in force, fashioning what seemed to be truth out of downright lies, as they do so well. They have become word magicians, painting false pictures so well that half the population thinks it is unadulterated truth. Emperor McCain really has no clothes, but the spinmasters make some believe he is arrayed in the finest patriotic, country first threads.
Give me a break. This is political gamesmanship at its most shameless, disguised as something it is most certainly not. Yet here is Nicolle Wallace, the lovely mythmaker and teller of tales, armed with her McCain-Palin talking points,fervently making the case for McCain's "courage." She is such a good actress!
On another channel, there was Douglas Holz-Eakin, he of "McCain developed the Blackberry" fame, using the same talking points. He and McCain and Bush got us into this financial mess with their "totally-free market" ideology, but now they are going to fix it. It is like hiring the arsonist to be your firefighter.
Answer me this: If the campaign is suspended, why are they on television trumpeting McCain? If the campaign is suspended, why were talking points sent out so the suspension could be used politically for McCain's politcal gain?
Yes, you can be sure the Republicans had the lifeblood of their propaganda campaign, the Bush-Rove talking points. CNN reported that the talking points went out. McCain's Colorado campaign director Tom Kise inadvertently sent out the campaign's internal talking points regarding the suspension of the campaign to the media.
The blog Daily Kos posted these talking points. Among them was:
"*John McCain is calling on the President to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including himself and Senator Obama. *John McCain is directing his campaign to work with the Obama campaign and the commission on presidential debates to delay Friday night's debate until action has been taken to address this crisis.*It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem. This is a time to put our country first. We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved."
There are others, but they are laced with the same Bush-Rove bull malarkey. Notice how the campaign theme "country first" is woven into the talking point. If it really was country first, it would be one thing. But it is really politics first, McCain first, a Trojan horse move by people who tell lies with such very straight faces, just like has been done for the last eight years in the Bush-Cheney White House. (Was it not great to hear Bush, who did his best Nero impression with financial crisis, fiddling our money away in Iraq while the financial heart of America burned. But now and he and McCain are casting themselves as saviors of the crisis they enabled to happen.)
It should not surprise anyone that Nicolle Devenish Wallace is so skilled in doublespeak and spin -- she is a Bush-Rove operative, trained in the Rove academy of political lies. Wallace served as communications director for Bush-Cheney '04 and held the same post in the White House at the start of the president's second term. How can anyone ever believe what she says?
This is the same Nicolle Wallace who said on the Joe Scarborough show on September 4th that the American people don't care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace -- in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough's show -- the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin's scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads! Wallace is a shill for McCain-Palin and will say whatever it takes to aid the campaign, whether it is true or not.
And what about the wonderful economic adviser Douglas Holz-Eakin? He was the director of the Republican congress's Congressional Budget Office from 2003-2005, so he is also part of the gang that got America into this mess. But he is good at sticking to talking points, (except when he says McCain helped create the Blackberry, then the wizard behind the curtains is revealed).
The truth is that McCain, campaigning for what will really be Bush's third term, is surrounded by former Bush operatives and big time corporate lobbyists and none of them know what truth is because they always speak in spin. It is their native language.
Pardon me, I need to go upchuck again. I just saw that harridan Nicolle Devenish Wallace on television again. The Cheshire Cat of political liars is let loose again on America.
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