How Your Right-Wing Talking Point Sausage Is Made

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http://gawker.com/5461548/how-your-right+wing-talking-point-sausage-is-made



Here are some helpful looks at how the Right Wing Message Machine works: The Washington Post explains how Ed Meese and Michelle Malkin coordinate their messages, and Glenn Thrush tracks a talking point as it goes from blogger to congressman.

Basically, the right-wing is "winning" the "information war" by being disciplined and completely shameless, but what else is new?

Do you want to know exactly how it works? This is basically exactly how it works:

"There is no conservative cabal, where the talk-radio guys get together with the Internet guys, who get together with the Fox News guys, who get together with a Wizard of Oz behind the curtain, and the talking points go out," said Mark Levin, a leading conservative talk-radio host.

Keep in mind that when Levin says "there is no" he means "there is a." Seriously, all of those "guys" literally do get together, often at Grover Norquist's weekly breakfast, or at various other coordinated meetings of bloggers and right-wing editors and writers and columnists hosted by the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council and a couple other groups that are actually the Wizards of Oz that Levin is claiming don't exist. And the Tea Party people don't like you to mention this (not because it renders their movement illegitimate but because it would turn off the people they are trying to appeal to who really do dislike the Republican party), but they are the well-funded activist arm of the Republican party establishment as it has existed since the Reagan era.

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[David in Canada]

1. Lame

The way the right-wing communicates their talking points is rather lame. They utter vacuous, simplistic statements not worthy of a second grader. If that isn't bad enough, their talking points basically plagarise one another. There is no independent thought or intellectual rigour. If you take two right-wing talking heads and compare their statements, they are practically carbon copies of one another.

If I did not know better, I would think the Republican talking heads, bloggers and congressmen were the Borg, one entity sharing the same consciousness.