Avedon has posted the following: TIME: Bush’s five point plan to ‘rescue’ his presidency:
Propaganda is fun! And, now for the non-Newspeak speakers, a translation:
1) Deploy guns and badges – Hide behind armed services, police and rescue workers. Piggyback on their courage and hard work. Embrace it as your own. If you hang with heroes, you are a hero. Some of it will rub off. Right?
2) Make Wall Street Happy – Those who write the biggest GOP campaign donation checks get that money back. Cause then they can donate it again and again! And, of course, any serious consideration of fiscal responsibility is just too hard. It’s work! And, who’s got time for that?
3) Brag More – When it comes down to tooting your own horn, lest if not be tooted… Well, maybe it’s not being tooted for a reason. Besides, Miles Davis was a horn player. The GOP from Bush down are kazoo players. Barely. And, they only know one tune. Barely. But, they play it over and over and over again, until everyone sort of starts to hum it out of sheer boredom and being worn down. You know, sorta like people who don’t hear their kids screaming and fighting in the same room anymore and they smile that dumb complacent smile? It’s like that. Only with nukes and billions and billions of dollars at stake. Sh*t. That’s friggin’ depressing.
4) Reclaim Security Credibility – “That guy, you know, the one who tells you to hold your hands over your belt buckle when you go through the metal detector at the airport? You know how he says: ‘Put your hands over your belt buckle please.’? That was my idea.”
5) Court the press – Two words. Free food.
