Propaganda meister! Bush Candid!

[MjM]

For a laugh, but seriously why are they clapping?

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http://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove/movies/catapult.mov


The farce that is political debate in the USA atm.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

If you know the issue here (It's a domestic one so I doubt it gets much attention there) it's about social security reform. The AARP and other groups are using scare tactics on seniors to try and tell them this will affect their benefits when it's Not. Going. To. Affect. Them. At. All. and somehow they keep using their rebuttled arguement repeatedly.

Also this wasn't a debate.


Propaganda is defined as "ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect"

That's what it is, propaganda is not always bad- it's just usually used with a bad stigma.

 

[Razor]

For a laugh, but seriously why are they clapping?

Only 1.4MB
http://homepage.mac.com/onegoodmove/movies/catapult.mov


The farce that is political debate in the USA atm.

I wasn't sure there was a political debate, it was just lobbying and paper signing and voting.

 

[MjM]

Oh ok, still seems wierd for him to come out with such comments and noone blinks an eye. Maybe its just me.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Oh ok, still seems wierd for him to come out with such comments and noone blinks an eye. Maybe its just me.

I don't get what we're supposed to be blinking an eye at.

 

[MjM]

You dont expect people when hearing the word propaganda to give it a second thought? I mean dictionary definitions aside, most people dont view the word propaganda in the best of light.

And yet the crowd seems to pay no attention to anything he is saying, and just claps??

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

You dont expect people when hearing the word propaganda to give it a second thought? I mean dictionary definitions aside, most people dont view the word propaganda in the best of light.

And yet the crowd seems to pay no attention to anything he is saying, and just claps??

Well it's fairly obvious in what context he used it, though. The fact that they clapped at him making that crystal clear to the constituent showed they were paying attention actually.

It'd be different if you saw on paper, only one line

"... helps to catapult the propaganda" -BUSH

But you hear what he's talking about and see the context it's used in and it's not meaning government billboards of compliance and stuff.

 

[Raziaar]

You dont expect people when hearing the word propaganda to give it a second thought? I mean dictionary definitions aside, most people dont view the word propaganda in the best of light.

And yet the crowd seems to pay no attention to anything he is saying, and just claps??

I've got nothing to say on this matter. I try to avoid politics even more now than I did when I was younger. Heh.

But... maybe bush was just trying to describe the 'usual' method of needing to do things in his line of work being a president, how its necessary to repeat things over and over to catapult whatever propoganda needs to be spewed forth. All he was doing was being honest from what I saw.