Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Bush's Microphone

I watched some of Bush's press conference today and a question was asked about using "the microphone" to advance his agendas. Besides being an instrument for communication as a definition of "microphone" the question could have been phrased as "are you going to use Propaganda to further your agenda?" Of course he is, that is what Bush is all about--spreading BS to the public. Any time he wants something he goes on a Propaganda tour of the country and sends his Propagandists out to do likewise.
I've mentioned Propaganda in the past and it seems that its dangers to the public are minimized or ignored. Many nations in the past and present have felt its powers as ours did in the beginning of the Iraq war. Seventy percent of Americans were behind Bush after he perpetrated his Propaganda campaign to invade Iraq. The campaign was so successful that the Press failed in its function to raise questions about the validity of the war. All criticism was stifled. Germany, before WWII, fell to the power of Propaganda. Germany was the most advanced technologically and culturally in the world at that time. Berlin was the largest city in the world at that time. All was destroyed.
We continue to listen to the inane arguments he poses, very craftily, about world trade, freedom, comprehensive immigration, and the like and no one pins him down about them.
Inane arguments such as helping the border patrol do their job by making illegal immigrants legal. What kind of an argument is that? And he is full of such illogical rambling arguments that don't make sense. Yet where is the criticism, the critique, by the press?