What Propaganda Ploy Next?

The reactions by the Republicans are standard fare in the use of Propaganda--stall, deny, muddy the waters, and stall some more. The "message" seems to be "Rove was just trying to keep the Times from printing something that wasn't "true""--they are still trying to sell the story that Saddam was trying to buy "yellowcake", even in the face of reality; that it would have been impossible for Saddam to buy it in the first place; that he had no way to convert it to enriched uranium for a bomb. The Republicans depend on the ignorance and disinterest of their "core" to get away with balderdash such as they have been trying to spread around--but if they can get enough people out there saying the same thing it is possible they can get away with it. They hope maybe some other big story will distract people for long enough that it becomes a ho-hum issue, like Harken and the National Guard issues. You can't rely on propaganda forever, people wise up eventually.