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Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy

Using 9/11 videos as a tactic for fear mongering might be tasteless, but 9/11 footage has been shown so many times in so many contexts, including identical promos run by Bush in 2004 and lots of congressional candidates in every election cycle, as well as identical promos run by many of the republican candidates during the nomination process. I find it difficult to believe that Olbermann's reaction was genuine. This dude is the grandmaster of feigned outrage. O'reilly is close, but Olbermann tops even him in this category

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Yeh, I don't really watch American news on tv, so I looked him up afterwards... I was a little disappointed to find out this sort of thing is just expected of him.

Originally Posted by jinnzaman

Did anyone else find it unusual how they started off with the Iranian hostage crisis?

Yep.

[nooni]

[HijabiPrincezz]

Originally Posted by jinnzaman

Did anyone else find it unusual how they started off with the Iranian hostage crisis? That had absolutely nothing to do with the al-Qaeda and 9/11. Propaganda at its finest.

yeah thats what i thought when the video started... the video itself is poorly made with their so called "facts" about 9/11 , and its really annoying how McCain seems so desperate to get voters that hes being pathetic now.

[dreamdeferred]

Originally Posted by nooni

Awesome.........................I've never understood how the GOP reconciles their wacky "trickle-down" economic fiscal policy with the fact that it has never worked....like ever...even once.

Originally Posted by jinnzaman

Did anyone else find it unusual how they started off with the Iranian hostage crisis? That had absolutely nothing to do with the al-Qaeda and 9/11. Propaganda at its finest.

Haha word........that was so retarded. Effective propaganda relies on conflation of facts and emotional manipulation......it worked when the administration cooked up the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and it will work when/if we go to Iran or Pakistan.

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[sumiyia]

And Who Said Republicans Don't Like Recycling ....
by BarbinMD
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 03:40:39 PM PDT

Call this a delayed reaction, but after 3 straight nights of Republican speeches, my brain is a little fried. But as the brain buzz began to wear off, something Rudy Giuliani said the other night, attacking Barack Obama's readiness to lead, rang a bell. Giuliani said:

...he's never run a city, never run a state, never run a business. He's never had to lead people in crisis.

Where had I heard that before? Why did it sound so familiar? And then I remembered the quote I used in one of the live blogging threads I put up Tuesday night. It was from Rudy Giuliani last year, attacking John McCain's readiness to lead. Giuliani said McCain:

...has never run a city, never run a state, never run a government. He has never been responsible as a mayor for the safety and security of millions of people...

Man, Republicans really can stay on message, can't they?

[sumiyia]

McCain Winning Coveted "Stock Photos" Demographic?
by Hunter
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 02:30:39 PM PDT

This was sent in by a reader: apparently, the Republicans couldn't find very many African American supporters to show on the Big Screen Of Triumph, when introducing McCain (see 6:45, 7:02)... so they simply put up stock photos of black people. You know, riding bicycles and appreciating their moms and stuff. Both these images appeared in McCain's introduction, but you can also buy them for a buck or two from iStockphoto.com:





They're fickle people. For a few bucks, they'll support your candidate too. Or your company newsletter.

I actually think this is great news for McCain. If he can win the "people from stock photos found on the internet" demographic, it could boost his candidacy significantly -- especially in swing states. I hear Ohio, for example, is almost entirely populated by stock photos.

As an aside, this is after CBS News pointed out that the solemn pictures of a military funeral that accompanied their "salute to the pledge" on Tuesday was, in fact, also stock footage, portrayed by actors. I actually don't fault them for that, since it'd be one of the few times they tried to pull on American patriotism without using footage of an actual death to do it. And of course, there was McCain inexplicably standing in front of a stock picture of Walter Reed Middle School during a significant portion of his speech. Maybe they wanted to use a picture of Walter Reed Medical Center, but then they found out it had columns.

Update [2008-9-5 19:17:0 by Hunter]: In comments, Ezsuds81 finds two more.

Daily Kos: McCain Winning Coveted "Stock Photos" Demographic?



i love dailykos... i want to just copy-paste the entire thing on here..

[Khairan]

Though I'm not particularly thrilled with either candidate, I am vehemently opposed to socialism and think that Obama's economic policies would be disastrous for this country. I'm not sure who I'm voting for this year, but I definitely will not be voting Democrat.

[dreamdeferred]

Originally Posted by Khairan

Though I'm not particularly thrilled with either candidate, I am vehemently opposed to socialism and think that Obama's economic policies would be disastrous for this country. I'm not sure who I'm voting for this year, but I definitely will not be voting Democrat.

Whatever we call the Democratic platform....it's certainly not"socialism", and the alternative candidate's fiscal policy is many times more disastrous IMO.

[afrakabob]

Originally Posted by sumiyia

i'm waiting for at least one speaker at the rnc to say something substantive about exactly what they plan on doing when elected. all i've heard so far are tear jerking stories about orphans in bangladesh and children with downs syndrome.

ugh, i KNOW. but i'm afraid that people will eat up these shameless "i'm-just-like-you" appeals to pathos as proof that republicans actually care about social issues... however irrelevant they may be. people seem to really be swayed by all that small-town troop-supporting flag-waving nonsense.

Originally Posted by jinnzaman

Did anyone else find it unusual how they started off with the Iranian hostage crisis? That had absolutely nothing to do with the al-Qaeda and 9/11. Propaganda at its finest.

Originally Posted by sumiyia

yup... so far, afghans, iraqis, and iranians have all been behind 9/11.

seriously. way to package islamophobia and exploit it to the fullest extent possible.

Have they posted more footage of the RNC yet? All I found was this YouTube - John McCain Republican National Convention Speech 2008

[TrentReznor858]

Originally Posted by afrakabob

ugh, i KNOW. but i'm afraid that people will eat up these shameless "i'm-just-like-you" appeals to pathos as proof that republicans actually care about social issues... however irrelevant they may be. people seem to really be swayed by all that small-town troop-supporting flag-waving nonsense.

I think most people are too clueless to realize the whole "I'm just like you" schtick is just that - pandering to the masses in order to garner votes. Show me a Republican who thinks their **** stinks like the rest of us and I will show you pigs that can fly.

[afrakabob]

Originally Posted by TrentReznor858

I think most people are too clueless to realize the whole "I'm just like you" schtick is just that - pandering to the masses in order to garner votes. Show me a Republican who thinks their **** stinks like the rest of us and I will show you pigs that can fly.

i don't understand how anyone falls for it. it's nothing but pure, infuriating ignorance. when is the last time the right wing has done something other than secure their own material well-being at the expense of others?

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