Cutting thru the Propaganda Fog (former republican spills the beans)

[genieroze]

News Analysis
Cutting thru the Propaganda Fog
December 2004
by Anonymous

This unedited essay was emailed
by a former GOP operative who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons -- the GOP is known for vicious retaliation

Most people that vote Republican aren't bad people, they're just
easily manipulated into believing ideas that exploit them. I should
know, I was one of them. In May of 2001 I moved to Washington DC to
pursue a career within the Repub-
lican party. This is a little of the story of how they exploited the darkest parts of my personality in their agenda power at all costs. It's the story of how the GOP cynically
spreads lies and disinformation, all the while blissfully unaware of how
deceitful it's behaving.

By far the greatest lesson I learned in working for the Republican Party is there's nothing more important in life than always telling the truth. In trusting the media you read, understanding the research meth-
odology and fact-checking appara-
tus needs to be your paramount concern. Because I care so deeply in presenting to you a factually accurate account of my tales within the party, I wish I could put my name to this account. But frankly, you would be a damn fool to
try to cross the Republicans. They have brought the art of personal
destruction to an art form, and would undoubtedly retaliate. I should know, while working in DC I've seen it done to people all the time.

There is nothing you could have told me before I went to work
for the Republicans that would have made me believe that a sleazy
right-wing attack machine existed. Why would it? The Republican mind is built to only accept infor-
mation that confirms what it knows or thinks it knows. It's not a coin-
cidence that the Religious Right votes Republican hands down. These are people that fall easily into systems of control. I was so brainwashed that the right could do no wrong, it took two years of seeing pure sleaze in person to make me understand.

It all started in January of 2001 outside the Capitol in DC. I was in town visiting a friend, and I was very eager to attend the inauguration. I'd always been very involved in Repub-
lican politics, but George W. Bush had me more excited than any other candidate to date. I remember the very first Newsweek article I had read about him with Carl
Rove's scripted lines. Uniter, not a divider. Reformer with Results,
Compassionate Conservative, I bought every one of them hook line and sinker. Partisan bickering had gotten progressively worse for each year of my adult life now, I believed President Bush could change that, which is honestly just embarrassing.

http://www.evilgopbastards.com/

[grumpy old fart]

1. sorry, but anonymous "sources" are worthless.....n/t

[genieroze]

2. So are dead ones. eom

[Prodemsouth]

3. I think Rove spells his first name with a K, if he were the Bushie he

claims to be I think he would know that.

[teach1st]

4. So Democrats may not know how to spell this name

..but Republicans have to. "Powell" is misspelled, too.

Focus on the message. Does it seem authentic?

[genieroze]

5. Hum, the pubs who come here don't spell to well either.

Well, some of them do.

[Prodemsouth]

6. Were/are you surprised to hear this stuff?- This is shit I already knew.

I didn't need someone who was inside the Republican party to confirm what I already knew. If he was that thick in a Republican org., he would have seen the name Karl Rove enough to know how it is spelled. It is with a K, it is right there on the front page when you click the link in the Thread head post.

[genieroze]

7. It's just nice to hear one of them admit it. I was a brainwashed idiot

bla, bla, bla. lol

[w4rma]

8. So accurate it's not even funny. Due to that accuracy, I believe him.

I suggest that everyone read that whole essay, because he is a very good and concise writer. It doesn't matter how much politics you feel you know, you WILL better understand the big picture after reading that. I promise.