Commander Cuckoo Bananas admits to propaganda in a speech?

merwin

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Thu May-26-05 03:11 PM
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Commander Cuckoo Bananas admits to propaganda in a speech?

From a White House Transcript (5/24/2005):

"Now, a personal savings account would be a part of a Social Security retirement system. It would be a part of what you would have to retire when you reach retirement age. As you -- as I mentioned to you earlier, we're going to redesign the current system. If you've retired, you don't have anything to worry about -- third time I've said that. (Laughter.) I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. (Applause.)"

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/20050524-3.html

Now ain't that honest of him?

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RobertSeattle

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Thu May-26-05 03:13 PM
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1. Someone had a great comeback from FDR earlier today

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 26, 1939 http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/3248.html

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merwin

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Thu May-26-05 06:48 PM
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5. I like that one!

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BayouBengal07

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Thu May-26-05 03:15 PM
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2. Wouldn't be the first time he's slipped

"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me. "

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John Q. Citizen

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Thu May-26-05 03:20 PM
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3. It would appear that only those who haven't retired

have something to worry about

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Goblinmonger

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Thu May-26-05 03:21 PM
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4. His speech writers

were probably slapping their foreheads in the wings. "He thought he was supposed to say that out loud? Good God!"

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merwin

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Thu May-26-05 06:48 PM
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6. LOL

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hughee99

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Thu May-26-05 07:06 PM
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7. He did use it correctly, though...

"Propaganda is a specific type of message presentation aimed at serving an agenda. At its root, the denotation of propaganda is 'to propagate (actively spread) a philosophy or point of view'. The most common use of the term (historically) is in political contexts; in particular to refer to certain efforts sponsored by governments or political groups."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Any time a person goes out and tries to sell someone on an idea, even if it's as assinine as *'s idea, it's propaganda.

For him, it's a big victory because he finally pronounced and used a word correctly.

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Cell Whitman

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Thu May-26-05 10:22 PM
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8. * sure is clumsy when it comes to taking "over the other person's mind."

Bush is just fighting WW3 as he and the new right have been trained to believe it is to be fought.

You can see the video of this quote below here:

(video link at top of page)
http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript2.shtml

This is from Moon's top political aid at the time, Bo Hi Pak.
Pak helped mold and train the new right you see today.

Narrator: The World Media Association sponsors all-expense-paid conferences and junkets for journalists all over the world. As Bo Hi Pak told public station KQED in 1984, the Unification Movement used the association as a weapon for a larger crusade.

Pak: "But is a total war. Basically war of ideas. War of mind, the battlefield is the human mind. This is where the battle is fought. So in this war the entire thing will be mobilized, political means, social means, economical means and propagandistic means, and basically trying to take over the other person's mind. That is what the third world war is all about � the war of ideology."

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http://cellwhitman.blogspot.com/

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