Reply #2: Yes; Pathological--I Was Going to Post This as a New Thread

[Hidden Stillness]

I just received a bizarre, even "pathological" DeVos phone message today, and when I checked my phone messages, there was another that I was not aware of, from apparently about a week ago. The tone of voice of the operative pitching DeVos is like, a snot-assed, pissy teenage girl, (I kid you not; you know the voice if you have gotten any of these similar messages), and significantly, again, the messages are not attributed to the DeVos campaign or the Republican Party--isn't that a violation of campaign law? The kinds of advertising-agency trickery used during these messages shows just how slimy the campaign of Dick "Illegal Bribes" DeVos is.

The first message: It BEGINS, "Are you disgusted by Granholm's negative attacks? Well, it gets worse. Now, Granholm is attacking Dick DeVos's family. She's become just another disappointing politician. So, I want to know if she has a plan for education, environment, roads, or jobs--but all she does is attack. She has no plan. Did'ja see today's paper? Well, she wants to take away control from local public schools. She's become just too extreme. Granholm is a disappointment. Let's give change a chance."

Then, the highly offensive and factually lying message left this early afternoon: "Today's newspapers are right--Granholm sure was nasty and negative in last night's debate. No wonder she lost. She had no specifics, no plan for the future, and no ideas for another four years. In a word, she's--disappointing. Now, after her failure in the debate(s?), one newspaper noted, Granholm simply can't be trusted. She's so nasty and negative. She'll make up any story, just to get re-elected. When she can't be trusted, and has no plan or ideas for the future, how can WE support her? Jennifer Granholm is a disappointment." Hang-up.

These tactics, and the tone of DeVos's whole campaign, are so sleazy, so unethical, so devious, that a few things should be gone over. Notice that no "paper" is ever referred to, that apparently thinks Granholm is so "bad." They are relying on you to be so busy and overworked, etc., that you don't have time to follow everything that happens, and will therefore "seem to remember something," or "take their word for it," that there was any such thing....Or, maybe the "paper" was the "Amway Daily Mind Control." I take it the operative word of the DeVos campaign is "disappointment/disappointing"; apparently, we are supposed to be uncritically getting that word fixed in our heads and associated with Gov. Granholm--so, remember that, kids! "All she does is attack"..."no plans"..."no ideas"...This is "framing" and "spinning" here: No matter what the facts are or no matter what Granholm has answered or explained, it is ignored and "erased" by another round of Amway mind-controlling slogans that pretend none of it ever happened. Let your brain turn to mush, with Amway...1, 2, 3.. This is just like Bush and Cheney--no matter how disastrous everything gets, they grin, attack, fund-raise; they are impervious to reality, and so is DeVos. Everything is the next round of "corrective" slogans and smear.

Some are possibly actionable lies: "She wants to take away control from local public schools." This completely false, mischaracterization of a Granholm opinion, which does not even relate to this lie, should be challenged, (during a debate?), and I would sue. "Can't be trusted...can't be trusted..can't be trusted..." Expect this to come up over and over, because of course, Devos is the corporate criminal with the beady, shifty eyes, who can't be trusted; they think they can get rid of it, like, "Tag--you're it." You can tell just how immoral their whole campaign is by the outrageous claim that Granholm "lost" the debate--ridiculous. They are counting on you to have missed it, and therefore vulnerable to anyone's lying characterization of it. "Today's newspapers" claim Granholm was "nasty"? Where? "She'll make up any story, just to get ...elected." Oh, that's not DeVos doing that, as everyone knows. Another attampt to shift another one of their noticable traits onto Granholm, by advertising. Granholm is "so nasty...?" Are they kidding?

As long as Granholm keeps up the explanations--as she did so brilliantly during the debate several times--that DeVos is a corporation-owner whose only interest is the increased profit of that corporation, and that the methods used hurt Michigan and America--killing all taxes for rich people and corporations, and shifting them onto the rest of us, outsourcing jobs to other countries, deregulating the workplace and all other rules of business, etc.--then that neutralizes the routine that DeVos is a "business-owner" and "therefore knows what needs to be done to help the economy," etc. DeVos will outsource and cut taxes, not caring what it does to Michigan or its government; just like Bush and Cheney. DeVos intends to keep up this "wall of noise" all the way up to the election this November, to try to drown out the debates, where the truth was revealed.