Excerpts from Noise Machine.....destroying Democrats with their help.

[madfloridian]

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/05/con04218.html

2000 portraying Al and Tipper as crazy
SNIP.."yet another frenzy of repetitive messaging portraying Gore as crazy. Speaking of Gore on FOX News, The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes said, "This is nutty. This is along the lines with, you know, President Bush killed Paul Wellstone, and the White House knew before 9/11 that the attacks were going to happen. This is -- I mean, this is conspiratorial stuff." Also on FOX, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said of Gore, "I’m a psychiatrist. I don’t usually practice on camera. But this is the edge of looniness, this idea that there’s a vast conspiracy, it sits in a building, it emanates, it has these tentacles, is really at the edge. He could use a little help." "It could be he’s just nuts," Rush Limbaugh said of Gore. "Tipper Gore’s issue is what? Mental health. Right? It could be closer to home than we know." "He said it’s a conspiracy," Tucker Carlson said on CNN’s Crossfire. "I actually think he’s coming a little unhinged," The Weekly Standard’s David Brooks, now at the New York Times, said of Gore on PBS"

2004
SNIP..."As I write in early 2004, the Republican Noise Machine is primed to run the same campaign of personal vilification in the 2004 presidential election, no matter which Democrat wins the nomination. An op-ed piece in the Washington Post by Charles Krauthammer has pronounced former Vermont governor Howard Dean "the Delusional Dean." Krauthammer’s "diagnosis" rested on a transcript of a Dean appearance on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews. Through the use of ellipses, Krauthammer doctored the transcript to make his point.
As Gore’s experience demonstrated, Democrats ignore these attacks at their peril: Not only do such attacks confirm the preconceptions of Republicans but they shape the thinking of undecided voters and even of Democrats. One of the most frightening experiences I have had in recent years in talking with rank-and-file Democrats is the extent to which they unconsciously internalize right-wing propaganda. To add insult to injury, too many Democrats have a tendency to blame the victims of these smears -- their own leaders -- rather than addressing the root of the problem. For instance, when Senator Daschle made the factual statement that "failed" diplomacy had led to war with Iraq, right-wing media accused him of siding with Saddam Hussein. The ensuing controversy caused many Democrats to think Daschle had put his foot in his mouth...."END SNIP

[Doctor_J]

1. this is true

I recently talked to a Dem relative who said, "The things the repugs are saying about Kerry are the same things I thought during the primary".

eye on the ball, people. Remember who the enemy is

[emulatorloo]

2. Thanks for posting this -

I may have to spring for this book - everything is so DEAD ON. . .

Don't hesitate to bring up the "uncounsiously internaliz(ing) right-wing propaganda" when appropriate on DU.

[madfloridian]

3. I won't . We need to remember what we do.

The book is easy reading, very powerful. I knew a lot of it, but it is so scary to see it all written down in one place.