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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
Wed Aug 14, 2013, 09:07 AM Aug 2013

Oh... to be wept over by Oprah and ogled by Friedman. Let the "nauseum" commence.

The corporate ED. "reform" Noise Machine: how it works.

From "Jeb Bush is Planting Seeds."



>>>>And yet, all of the above degradations masquerading as reforms begin precisely this way. One figure making a speech here, giving an interview there, writing an editorial over there, and on and on. Consider these actions the planting of seeds in the public consciousness, the first step in the manipulation of perception management. Soon enough a notion vomited out of a grotesquerie like ALEC is repeated ad nauseum and treated as if it arose from the soil. It is then earnestly parroted by the likes of Brian Williams, wept over by Oprah, championed by PBS and NPR, ogled by Thomas Friedman and Nicolas Kristoff, and chanted by members of billionaire created “grass roots” organizations like Educations 4 Excellence, Parent Revolution and Stand For Children and so on.

And such is the way conventional wisdom is manufactured today in the US of A.>>>>>

http://raginghorse.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/jeb-bush-is-planting-seeds/

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