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"You're making the fundamental mistake of looking for "THE ANSWER", the secret weapon or magic bullet. The answer is less flashy than that, yet nevertheless impressive in its own way. The overall strategy is to simultaneously use a great many individually unremarkable techniques in a way designed to slip in under the general radar."

Btw, THE ANSWER was a joke- it's my feeble attempt to act like Lindy or some other wack job.

"The result of all this is easy to discern. The Right's ability to coordinate the rhetoric of an army of spokescreatures is chillingly evident. Speaking of "The Daily Show" (which I watch just about every day myself), you've seen them shine a spotlight on the phenomenon, when they splice together clips of many different RightWing pundits and "journalists" speaking the very same words, over and over. Somebody at the RNC or a thinktank creates those words, pushes a button to send them out, and within hours you'll see people on TV speaking their assigned lines, and shortly thereafter you'll notice those words being parroted by the obliging media and the Party faithful, and spread at the speed of light through the RightWing blogosphere--so that, within a few more hours we'll get to read Tom repeating those lines."

I think Stewart would probably like one of his "reporters" do an "interview" on you. Lots of stuff here.

"The word "liberal" is tied to words like "treason" and "traitor" in your mind."

Nope.

"And I played a trick on you just there, when I used "liberal". I used the lowercase form that has nothing to do with politics, and just means "expansive" or "broader". E.g., the Fed pursuing a "liberal monetary policy". But nevertheless it triggered an emotional reaction, didn't it?"

No, it didn't.

PS: I do hope you being silly.

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