Six puppets, one flower child, and an angry old bastard who really should be your President

[babylonsister]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jay_esbe_070427_six_puppets_2c_one_flo.htm

Six puppets, one flower child, and an angry old bastard who really should be your President.

by Jay Esbe


The debates last night were like watching paint dry but for the presence of Mike Gravel, former Senator from Alaska. Of course he doesn’t stand a snow-ball’s chance in hell of becoming the next President, but he should; anyone who’s endured the last years not locked in a dungeon incommunicado who’s not as indignant, outraged, fed-up, and outright angry as Gravel is, is actually part of our problem.

It’s been said by more than one pundit, that Gravel is the “Zell Miller of the left”. I can’t really say I disagree with that observation, but it is missing a crucial qualifier: Zell Miller was wrong about virtually everything, and Mike Gravel is absolutely right about virtually everything. That’s kind of important. At least to me.

Gravel represents everything good in an American perspective post-9/11 Bush crime spree; he’s not crying –like Dick Durbin actually did when he apologized for rightly comparing the GOP to Brown Shirts-. He’s probably barely self-aware, so great is his passion for our reality long ago lost to a malignant media corporatocracy and those who’ve been successfully hypnotized en-mass by it.

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[Chipper Chat]

1. Nosiree! Gravel aint afraid to smackdown ye olde news pundits either.

I loved it when he took Chris Matthews to the woodshed.
Go Gravel!

[Hissyspit]

2. You know, the "being right about everything" thing.

It's amazing how little that can actually count for in the real world.

K&R

[Solly Mack]

3. Simple - Gravel spoke the truth and must be marginalized for doing so

Managed truth works the same way disinformation does and what Gravel did served the purpose of a managed truth. I'm not saying Gravel acted with the purpose of creating a managed truth - I am saying he will be used that way.

Disinformation is meant to distract, deflect and to offer up an alternative that introduces doubt.

Managed truth does the same

In this equation the managed truth was the alternative offered up.

See how that works? Truth as an option instead of the standard or baseline. This is useful when lies are to be used as the standard and or baseline.(or a manufactured reality, if some prefer - but that's just another way of saying lie)

It is a managed truth simply because it also served as means to marginalize the truth (introduce doubt) and those who tell it.

In times where truth is dangerous to government(such as now - and not just now), truth must be managed or government's role in those lies (or illegal, corrupt, unethical actions) is exposed

The US government is never going to admit to the invasion of Iraq being anything other than a "mistake". "Mistakes were made" - that's it.

But you can't claim the truth wasn't spoken because it was...even as the truth was being marginalized right along with the speaker of the truth

Bush claims the CIA misled him which caused him to mislead Congress

See how that works? Everyone was misled so it's no ones fault."Mistakes were made"

The truth is spoken - then marginalized - so that the lies remain as a (the) plausible alternative.

The lies being "mistakes were made" and Bush was "misled" - and Durbin has showed us, not ALL of Congress was "misled" - yes, those that knew full well that Bush was lying were sworn to secrecy not to reveal the fact that Bush was lying. They had to keep quiet or risk jail and lose their position as a member of Congress. And, they wouldn't be able to be here now exposing Bush's lies if they had exposed Bush's lies then. I know all the reasons why they didn't tell the people about Bush lying.



Gravel spoke truth - but let's call him fringe or crazy or one of those radical leftists - or any one of those terms used against people to marginalize them - So now the truth is associated with someone that is "nuts". So his truth must be "nuts" as well...let's ridicule him and his truth...for once marginalized, the truth becomes his (or her) truth and not the truth

It's poisoning the well. He's nuts so his words have to be crazy.

No one wants to listen to someone who is "nuts" do they? That might mean they are "nuts" too. Or worse, their "peers" might ridicule them as well. (Damn that adult peer pressure)




All you have to do to look good now is to stand next to the "nut" and smile indulgently.

See? I'm not a fringe leftists nutcase...that man/woman is

and the truth spoken becomes secondary to the labeling of the person who spoke the truth

as the focus is on the speaker of truth as somehow out of his/her mind - the less focus on the truth




Yeah, Gravel's a cool old dude but let's face it, he can't get elected saying those things

"those things" being the truth (imagine that)