Inside the High-Minded Pro-Obama Echo Chamber
posted by Frank Pasquale
TweedleDem: “Wow, that John McCain is sure saying some nasty things about Obama!”
TweedleDum: “Yeah, nobody really thinks he was calling Sarah Palin a pig. And what’s up with that crazy kindergarten ad? And we haven’t even scratched the surface of emails calling Obama a terrorist sympathizer.”
T’dem: “I’m just glad OUR candidate hasn’t sunk to that level.”
T’dum: “Oh, yes. We’d never bring up the Keating Five scandal–that’s the kind of thing only Karl Rove would do. The Donald Diamond deal would just be a distraction, too. And his family is off-limits.”
T’dem: “Thank goodness those crafty old Democratic consultants like James Carville are gone. And people like Lee Atwater, Rove, and Steve Schmidt aren’t welcome in our noble campaign.”
T’dum: “Indeed. If we keep this pure, Obama may well be up for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.”
T’dee: “We know that the media will eventually get the truth to the American people. And look at the backlash against sarcastic and dismissive attacks on Obama!”
T’dum: “You can always refute a lie by patiently explaining why it is untrue–despite social psychologists’ findings that ‘denials inherently require repeating the bad information, which may be one reason they can paradoxically reinforce it.’”
T’dee: “Ah, yes–what do they know about our great democracy? In the end, elections are always won on the issues.”
September 14, 2008 at 2:58 pm
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Catherine - September 14, 2008 at 3:40 pm
How exactly was it that Yeats described the end of civilization?
teecee - September 16, 2008 at 11:11 am
Catherine, I believe you are thinking of Eliot, not Yeats.
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