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From: Geri Wittig <gwittig@adobe.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:35:17 -0700
To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Do You Still Own Your Reality?
I completely understand the sentiment of this post - the Bush
opposition
movement in this country has been critiquing the power of the
misinformation
and fear mongering that comes out of the Bush administration - this
is not a
new observation and has been duly noted for years. I watched the
Cheney/Edwards debate and had the same analysis of Cheney's uncanny
ability
to hypnotically put forth inaccuracies that an uninformed public
would take
at face value without question, but to lump all of "America's
reality" into
one basket is a disservice to the many in the trenches who have been
fighting the good fight to oppose the Bush administration in all of
it's
varied negative policy impacts upon the world. For example, in these
last
few weeks of this campaign, the work that many grassroots voter
registration
efforts have been doing are showing results - the late voter
registration
has been surging. A friend of mine who recently moved to North
Carolina, a
Republican stronghold, informed me that late voter registration is
running
60% Democrat, 12% Republican. Yes, we need to continue to critique
and point
out the insane "reality" that the Bush administration is trying to
pull over
the uninformed American public's eyes, but we need to also
acknowlege where
the work in action is gaining some ground. On a psychological level
it's
going to be important to help boost any momentum that is being
gained by the
Bush opposition, as it's going to be very important for getting out
those
left leaning voters who do not support Bush's policies, but who haven't
voted in years because they've become disillusioned with the system
and have
gone into inaction. Critique is vital, but without action and
acknowledgement of the successes that that action may be attaining, the
critique is futile.
geri wittig
(((((((((( We the Blog Update: Do You Still Own Your Reality?
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October 07, 2004
The Republicans are heightening the attack, ramping up their spin
strategies to reinforce disinformation in order to fool the country
into re-election.
Straight out of the playbook from Orwell's 1984...
They continue to retool their highly refined doublespeak tactics to
maintain a stranglehold on the reality of unsuspecting Americans.
Have the Republicans co-opted your reality?
According to columnist Tina Brown in the Washington Post
discussing the
VP debate:
"Cheney found a more primitive way to bluff with a bad hand... In a
culture of blatherers, Cheney intimidates with his silences, his
stingers, and above all his awesome capacity to stare down the
evidence
and assert that black is white."
Despite the fact that this week, the administration's own Paul
Bremer,
Don Rumsfeld, and the weapons investigator Charles Duelfer have all
declared the reason's for going to war were deeply flawed, as
well as
the so called follow-up plan, Bush and Cheney not only stand their
ground, the tighten their tenuous grip on a fictional narrative
designed to disguise their true ambition to control the oil-rich
middle
east.
The real issue in this election though, is America going to wake
up to
the dream (or nightmare) it finds itself in? Can we lift the veil
on the
disinformation pouring out of the White House. Can we take command of
> our own reality?
Or has America's reality been permanently hijacked by the Republicans
and their media propaganda machine?
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