Hmm. A presidential press conference. They still do those?
Nothing like not holding press conferences, because you are entirely contemptuous of the media, in order to give that rare press conference you do hold extra special importance, so you can then use that extra special rare and important press conference to promote your unpopular policies and give those policies an air of importance, because the people don’t support your policies. They don’t. No. Really. They. Do. Not.
To make matters even worse, the right even attempted to propagandize and influence the issue by commissioning their own “special” polls and, of course, their media stooges proceeded to promote the bogus polls.
There was even a ham handed attempt to link the Social Security issue by word play to the abortion issue by stating, from FoxNews: “Most Are ‘Pro-Choice’ On Social Security”. What they lack in subtlety they more than make up for in audacity.
Such tactics are called propaganda.
Desparation breeds idiocy.
Seems I’ve seen this movie before…
Otter: We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
Bluto: We’re just the guys to do it.
