Sometimes I just scratch my head about Americans and what they truly believe in.
I think at least a partial answer to this conundrum is contained in the Buzzflash interview with James Moore that you posted, concerning Karl Rove's methodology:
"...Karl's method for governance, which he has gotten this President to use very effectively, is completely cynical and it's based on the whole idea that we are all too busy to pay attention to the details of what's going on. We're all running around worrying about our mortgages and our 401Ks, and getting the kids to school or daycare, and picking up the dry cleaning, and planning vacation or retirement, that we don't read deeply into the story.
He once told a consultant that we interviewed for "Bush's Brain" that you should run every political campaign as though people are watching television with the sound turned down. And toward that end, you rely heavily on imagery and not very much on substance, knowing that if the President is photographed in a school of minority and ethnic children, and is interested in their future in that particular photo op, that people will trust that image."
Consider how very many Americans get their "news" from TV as opposed to those relative few of us who dig through various sources on the net.
I believe that the truth will eventually come out about this administration and when it does, Mr. Rove and his marionette will suffer a backlash of enormous proportions. The question is, when? And what finally triggers it? |
