The Cheney Shooting meme
muchacho
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Sun Feb-19-06 08:55 PM
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Have you noticed that the Rovian techniques for this story goes like this: "Are you saying that Cheney MEANT to shoot Harry Whittington?! No? Then the rest is nit-pick details."
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:00 PM
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They call this the "double inverse straw-man". Very effective. Sean Hannity used this very technique on Tuesday. He mentioned that "some people" brought up the theory that Cheney had been drinking, thus the 18-hour delay. Hannity then said (swear to God), "I wonder what the next story will be? That the Vice-President was smoking crack? That he was shooing heroin into his veins?"
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:07 PM
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2. okay - works for me. Cheney is a junkie. n/t
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:14 PM
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3. NOBODY can afford the drugs that Cheney's taking
I think it's distilled from the adrenal glands of Komodo dragons or something.
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:19 PM
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5. Seriously ... with his heart problems, there really are very few who can
afford the be medicated as he is. And even sadder .... millions of us are more worthy of such care than he is.
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:19 PM
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6. lol - yeah, probably Don Sabatini's private stock n/t
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:21 PM
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Overemphasis and dramatize the point to expose some implied absurdity for even entertaining the line of thinking. But Hannity is actually on crack.
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:17 PM
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4. "It must be nit-picking on Libby's part when he said Cheney authorized the
leak". That story sort of disappeared after the bird-shot went off. If they are trying to frame the debate, change it to one they are not prepared for. :D
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:25 PM
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8. So Cheney shot the lawyer to take the Libby story of page 1?
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:42 PM
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10. Maybe not, but it is a convenient distraction from more dire matters.
Rove couldn't have dreamed of a better distraction.
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Tue Feb-21-06 06:46 AM
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11. Rove told Cheney to do it...
"Don't worry Dick. It's loaded with blanks."
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Sun Feb-19-06 09:30 PM
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9. "Are you saying that Cheney MEANT to shoot Harry Whittington?!"
The correct response is: "Of course not. Had he meant to hit him, he wouldn't have. See, these bastards are so incompetent, they can NEVER hit what they aim at!"
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