The Poet's Eye
commentary by Lightning Rod
The Poets' Eye is skeptical without being cynical, innocent without being naive and critical without being judgemental.
Lies, Damned Lies and Sushi03-22-04
We live in the advertising age. We are accustomed to lies. We expect them.
The Bush administration is amply fulfilling our expectations. We have insider reports that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were planned prior to the opportune events of 9/11. Just yesterday Richard Clark, a top-level security advisor to four administrations, said that the President had all but ordered him to cook the intelligence concerning a connection between Iraq and 9/11.
Rep. Henry Waxman has sponsored a very revealing website that details chapter and verse the specific lies that Bushco uttered.
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There is a maxim among skilled liars, "If you are going to lie about the big things, you shouldn't lie about the small things." The Bush Doctrine of Lies seems to be, “if you lie about everything, who can tell the difference?"
It is becoming clear that Bushco lied and misrepresented the relationship between terrorism and specific States to justify its aggression in Iraq and even in Afghanistan. The Bush tax cut was a boondoggle with advantages tilted to the investor class. The Medicare prescription drug 'reform' was a scam to put money into the pockets of the drug and insurance companies. They made a lot of noise about 'no child left behind' but refused to put meaningful funding behind it. The immigration 'reform' was a reincarnation of the bracero program. Energy policy is being run like a Star Chamber, in total secrecy.
These policies represent a whole new level in the art of disinformation and the technique of lowering expectations. This administration is training us to be complacent about sustained and continual lies. Why should we expect any different? They are politicians after all.
The snake oil industry has long survived on the notion of selling us remedies for maladies from which they convince us we are suffering. High blood erectile dysfunction ADD acid reflux and fatigue associated with other medications that we are selling you for imaginary ailments and their associated side-effects including terrorism and threats to freedom wrapped in disclaimers and lies and lies and more lies yes your abs will be a perfect six-pack and your joints will move like a teenager's four hour hard-ons and your government will protect you from all threats real or imagined.
Lies succeed through repetition. The Republicans have nearly a quarter billion dollars with which to spread the lie in the upcoming election. That's a lot of repetition. They are confident that if they tell you what you want to hear often enough that truth will not be an issue. The Democrats have another fifty million to spend for the same cause.
The Poet’s Eye sees that the American public will subsist for the next eight months on a diet of either fried lies or broiled lies, perhaps even raw lies like sushi. Something smells fishy around here.
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