Reply #51: I'll reply to you here too (duplicate reply from other thread)

[AmyCrat]

This is your mistake...

You're hearing me as saying "Follow the directions, do it properly, .... all the 'right' ways of trying to make progress" as if I'm saying don't be slick, don't be smart, don't play the media fiddle or play the game. Yeah, lets play the game at the same level as them -- SMART.

Clinton was impeached but he was still well liked. His approval ratings were good. He was not removed from office. His PR machine was a huge part of all of that.

I don't pretend to think it's EASY to infiltrate the media -- but we have someone on our side right at this moment who is part of the machine. Going out and giving him a reason to question the chosen methods of BBV just was not a SMART decision... and that played out on TV tonight.

There's been some momentum. Yes, a lot have mentioned tin-foil hats and conspiracy theories... so we should take actions that give them more reason to say those same things? I hope not. Bad publicity is not "good publicity" in this case.

Specifics? I don't have them. Give me lots of money in donations and time to work on it and maybe I could come up with some specifics. I know I'm as frustrated as a lot of people around here, and it makes me all the more frustrated to have one of those only organizations, BBV, walk into a trap that leads to discrediting them further. I did give some specifics about this situation already.

The repubs are good at spin and PR. Maybe we should take some lessons from THAT cause the dems SUCK at it. Whether I want to know it or not, I always know the republican talking point of the day, but the personalities on Air America can't even agree there was fraud.

I'm off on a tangent now (LOL)... but thanks for asking. Read "All The President's Spin" and you'll learn a lot about how the media has been used by many-a-president, right back to Nixon (though Regan polished it, Clinton refined it, and Bush took it to a whole new level). It's POSSIBLE if we play it SMART.