Compare and contrast
We note political and media strategies that look a little similar among disparate groups.
One from column A:
[Operatives], working in concert with anti-war groups, have decided against using congressional power to force a quick end to U.S. involvement in Iraq, and instead will pursue a slow-bleed strategy designed to gradually limit the administration’s options…”What we have staked out is a campaign to stop the war without cutting off funding” for the troops…”
The legislative strategy will be supplemented by a multimillion-dollar TV ad campaign designed to pressure vulnerable GOP incumbents into breaking with President Bush and forcing the administration to admit that the war is politically unsustainable…
One from column B:
Among the most important of these events is Bush being forced to admit his failure in Iraq…after continuing to be stubborn as usual and repeating the lie which he became addicted to that he is winning in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush suffers from an addictive personality and was an alcoholic…As for his addiction to gambling, it motivates him to continue to place losing bets until he goes completely bankrupt…
I also thank my brothers working in…media for their blessed efforts which have deprived the Crusaders, Zionists and their aides of sleep and I call on them to continue their blessed giving with Allah’s help. And I ask Allah to protect our brothers in media, take care of them and guide them…
Great minds think alike?
February 14th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
“The truth is that the government doesn’t care about its soldiers, and never has. If you think I am being unduly harsh, read the Washington Post. You will find story after story saying that the Democrats don’t want to do anything drastic about the war. They fear seeming “soft on national security.” In other words, they care more about their electoral prospects in 2008 than they do about the lives of GIs. It’s no secret. For them it is a matter of tuning the spin, of covering tracks, of calculating the vector sum of the ardent-patriot vote which may be cooling, deciding which way the liberal wind blows, and staying poised to seem to have supported whoever wins. Screw the troops. Their fathers probably work in factories anyway.”
http://www.fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm column #342