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JANUARY 21, 2004 –
In this story written on December 8, 2003 (http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i16clarksurge.htm
), we informed you of the right-wing’s election strategy. The basic
idea is to push Kerry and Edwards early on, then turn on them. The
goal is to bury Clark – who they are worried is the best candidate
to beat President Bush – and ensure that Dean wins – the person they
consider easiest to beat.
Here is an excerpt from the December 5
entry on the right-wing site
polipundit:
"The rationale is simple:
1. We still want Dean to be the nominee so that President Bush can
crush him and have long coattails.
2. The biggest threat to a Dean nomination is no longer Dick
Gephardt, John Kerry or John Edwards. It's Weasel Clark, for all
the reasons
outlined below.
3. To help Dean, we have to bring down Clark's vote totals in the
crucial states of New Hampshire and South Carolina.
4. In New Hampshire, donating to neighbouring-son John Kerry will
help ensure that Clark won't surpass expectations by finishing
ahead of Kerry.
5. In South Carolina, Clark can be stopped by neighbouring-son
John Edwards.
In addition to reporting this a month
and a half ago, we reported last week in this article (http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i18rightwing.htm)
that the right-wing was about to launch an all out smear assault
against General Clark.
And we have had confirmed by an inside
source that these are indeed the marching orders – in fact, you don’t
have to look far to see this. Just listen to AM radio or watch FOX
News and you will see nothing but the same handful of dishonest
smears and innuendo about Clark repeated and repeated – every time
he comes up, every time, they will be sure to mention the two
dictated lies of the moment - and praise for Kerry and Edwards.
We summed things up in this article
www.moderateindependent.com/v1i18soumedia.htm last week, telling
how the lynchpin to the Bush/Limbaugh hold on power is their
complete domination and control of the entire non-Moderate
Independent American media.
All good M/I readers already know all
this stuff – and in reality, anyone who is not living with their
head up Limbaugh’s oxycontin bottle is aware of this.
But, for some reason, no one in the
Democratic Party gets the extent of it yet. On Thursday night, just
days before the New Hampshire primary, the Democratic hopefuls are
set to walk back into yet another FOX News-hosted debate.
So let us be clear: there is only one
issue that will determine the outcome of the upcoming election. It
is not Iraq, it is not the economy. The issue is the right-wing’s
domination of the media, and if the Democratic Party and candidates
do not realize this and make coming up with an aggressive, effective
strategy to deal with it proactively a top priority, they have no
chance of winning.
Make no mistake, the right-wing’s
domination of the media message is a virtual science at this point.
They used it to get President Bush elected the first time, they used
it to get Schwarzenegger elected. As far as two years before the
2000 election, while America was basking in peace and prosperity and
almost no one had heard of Governor Bush, the media around the
nation was already dubbing Bush “unbeatable.” Schwarzenegger was
unanimously and constantly referred to as the “frontrunner,” despite
the fact he was in not in the lead at all but behind by much as
fifteen points in the polls and, in fact, never led until the very
last week. We document the Schwarzenegger story here
www.moderateindependent.com/v1i12puppet.htm .
Right now, Kerry and Edwards think the
press is, at last, on their side. How naïve can they be.
Look above – we told you as of December
8 that the media was going to chew them up just so they can spit
them out. Kerry and Edwards are not considered threats to win the
nomination nor to beat President Bush. Clark is.
The Democrats see President Bush unleash
teams to Iowa and New Hampshire right before the primaries and still
they don’t get it.
The Bush re-election strategy is simple
– and nothing like America has ever seen before. They are not
concerned so much about how they will portray the President, as all
traditional campaigns are. For the Bush/Limbaughians, this election
is a practical matter and a ground war.
The media machine they have set in place
marches lockstep, taking talking points directly from the RNC. It
spans every corner of the nation, covers the airwaves above every
wheat and cornfield in America, sits within the newspaper on the
doorstep of every suburban household. While the Democrats spend
millions to buy 30 seconds of airtime here or there, the Bush teams
dispatched to Iowa and New Hampshire simply snapped their fingers
and got 80 spots lined up on talk radio stations – each a twenty
minute (or longer) unrebutted campaign commercial, which then goes
onto 24 hours straight of echoing the same campaign commercial
talking points – all free of charge and widely broadcast.
And they know how the game works: they
can lie all they want and no one will do anything about it.
Gingrich first perfected the routine. They start by telling a lie –
like the one we caught Drudge and RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie telling
the other day. The media may call them on it – as we did, the
Washington Post, and the NY Times did.
But that doesn’t stop them. The thing
they learned is to tell a lie, tell it big, tell it often. And this
works because the Democrats let them get away with it. The media
will call them on it once, but then consider their job done. They
will not write again and again that, “Despite us pointing out they
are lying, the RNC Chair won’t stop.” They won’t do it, and the
Bush/Limbaughians know it.
Unless it is the RNC pushing the
buttons. When Moveon.org had a couple of videos on their site that
compared Bush to Hitler – which isn’t necessarily dishonest or
inaccurate to begin with - RNC Chair Gillespie had it all over the
news. It went on for days, hit the front of all the major news
sources. Moveon.org apologized and pulled the videos, and it was
done.
However, when just a few days later
Gillespie himself was caught red-handed intentionally lying to smear
a Democratic presidential hopeful, it got almost no media play, no
apology, and right this very second the lies are being repeated and
repeated – despite a mountain of clear evidence and a few articles
showing them to be lies – repeated all across the country, from talk
radio to TV to the print media.
And no one in the Democratic Party makes
it an issue. They think they can ignore it, think it won’t affect
them.
And so again and again the message is
being reinforced, subtlety, that Kerry’s okay, Edwards is good, but
fear Clark, smear Clark.
For now they are bashing Dean as well.
But don’t let that confuse you. They still are pulling for Dean.
The plan is to push Kerry through New Hampshire, then start
assailing him as an unelectable Northeast liberal as they move to
the South. Then they will briefly continue their push of Edwards,
trying to get him to knock off Clark in South Carolina.
If they can get a Kerry win in New
Hampshire and an Edwards win in South Carolina, they will feel they
have neutralized Clark, at which point they then turn on Edwards as
well as Kerry, and start pushing Dean like they had before.
They pushed Dean early on, pushed Dean,
and Dean rose. Everyone saw this. They decided they want to push
Edwards and Kerry and guess what? Edwards and Kerry are at the
top. When they decide to bash them and push Dean again, he’ll be
back up. Their absolute control of the media is that good… if left
unchallenged and not made a central issue.
And so we are now a few days before the
New Hampshire primary. Talk radio is spreading the same
two-specific smears about Clark and trying to make Democrats nervous
that they maybe can’t trust him while giving compliments and a free
ride to Kerry and Edwards. And Clark’s campaign has not made a
major issue of it yet.
And on Thursday, the Bush/Limbaughians
are in control, as their puppet station, FOX News, hosts a debate.
We know what to expect, we have seen it twice already this year.
They will be sure to work in the same two dishonest smears that they
are echoing on talk radio. They will instigate to try and get Clark
angry and infighting, and insult him directly by citing the lying
smears they have been echoing for over a week now as “conventional
wisdom.” And after the debate they will do their “analysis,”
repeating the same lying talking points and casting as much doubt on
Clark as possible, while talking nicely about Kerry and Edwards –
more so in praise of Kerry at this point since New Hampshire is
what’s next.
We know this. This is simple fact.
In the Iowa caucuses, caucus sites were
flooded as never before, and the big story was all the new people,
many of who were Republicans, who took the cue from talk radio and
went heavily for Kerry and Edwards.
People say this election will be close –
that is not the case. This election will be a landslide. Which
side it will go for will come down to one thing: will the Democrats
challenge the Republicans' amoral, dishonest media domination?
If the answer is no, whoever is their
candidate will be trounced. If the answer is yes, they will win by
a landslide.
One of our readers wrote us yesterday.
He heard a talk radio host in LA talking about the Iowa caucuses,
and he was heaping praise on Kerry and Edwards. So he called in to
voice his support for General Clark. As soon as he mentioned
Clark’s name, our reader told us, the host went right into the exact
lying smear we had debunked just a few days ago.
The M/I reader told us because he had
read the articles on our site he was able to simply and easily point
out how dishonest the host was being and take him on on a moral
basis. “What you are saying is clearly not true,” he said he told
the host, “you must know that, so you obviously have something
against General Clark. Why are you smearing a decorated four-star
American General by intentionally spreading the same lies Drudge and
the RNC were caught spreading last week? Why would you so
dishonestly smear a good American like that?”
This is why M/I exists. The days of the
lies holding supreme reign are over – the truth is now here. And we
have already developed a small army who is out there fighting back
. And, as our reader who made this call told us, it is amazing how
easy it is to humiliate, degrade, and point out the amorality of
these people when you have the proper information for your
rebuttals. (In this case, when our reader cited Richard Perle’s
clear comments stating he knew Clark was opposed to the war, the
radio host was lost . You see, they just take the talking points
lies - when you have the whole truth, you have the upper-hand.)
Yes, our readers realize how serious
this issue is, and by reading M/I they are taking steps to combat
it. They bring this information out into the world and begin to
change the national conversation.
However, it is up to the Democratic
candidates and party to do the same. The last two FOX News debates
were absurd, and only helped President Bush. Thursday night, with
so much on the line, General Clark – and the other candidates who
are so happy to be getting free dope from the scumlord dealer –
better show up with a strategy. And the best strategy is to
anticipate the obvious and make it a moral issue.
President Bush has a lot in store for
the upcoming election, but it will be like his version of the War on
Terror – covert, and on offense. He will not simply present himself
and try to win support. There will be interference at every turn,
every tactic used to make sure the Democrats don’t get heard,
complete use of their media machine to personally attack and smear
while the President seems to have nothing to do with it.
If the media is not dealt with, every
argument on every subject will be twisted and, indeed, become
irrelevant, and personal characterizations, like the ones being
insinuated now about Clark, are what will determine the election.
This is the strategy. The good news is
that, if you realize the predominance of this issue, it is a
straightforward one to combat.
So far, by the fact that the Democratic
Party scheduled all of these debates to be hosted by the clearly
biased right-wing puppet FOX News Channel, it is obvious the party
doesn't get it yet. It is sending its troops out into a booby
trapped field - for the third time this election cycle.
Thursday the Democratic candidates walk
into the Lion’s den for a debate that may very possibly determine
the outcome of the entire primary season. I hope they have learned
from the Roy Horn tragedy and bring more than just a microphone with
them.
For General Clark in particular, the hit
is on. He has to go in there knowing it is a setup, a planned
character assassination attempt.
Of course, as a four-star General, he
might be well aware and have strategized as any good planner should.
If he is prepared to make fun of the FOX News Channel if any absurd
or loaded questions are asked, asserting he is the candidate who
won't let FOX News and the right-wing media steer this election, he
might just pull another perfect act of jujitsu and leave his
would-be assassins the injured party. Brit Hume will be hosting. By simply pointing out at the first moment that he is a clearly biased host, partial-to-Bush and hostily partial-against-Clark, it would put the audience on notice and defang Hume before he has a chance to run the attack we all know he is planning.
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