WaPo:Homeland Security Disavows Document Touting Successes

[Buck Turgidson]

Say Agency's Public Relations Plan Was Not Approved

By Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writers


A Bush political appointee in the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection bureau drafted and distributed a public relations strategy designed to "change perception" about the nation's security by repeating the message, in the weeks leading up to the presidential election, that America is safer, according to internal government documents.
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"Repeat the message. . . . Repeat until we are completely exhausted by it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7445-2004Oct28.html

[myrna minx]

1. I'd reply to this post, but I have to take my Soma.

It is better to FEEL safe rather than to BE safe.:eyes: Gawd, these folks have got to GO. Kerry in a Landslide!!!!

[Buck Turgidson]

2. Propaganda 101: "Repeat the message.."

"Reassure the citizens of the United States," says the strategy, which was presented five weeks ago to public affairs officials for Customs and Border Protection regional offices around the country. "Repeat the message. . . . Repeat until we are completely exhausted by it."

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. a gram is better than a damn

[Tempest]

3. "If you tell a lie, tell a big one."

- Joseph Goebbels

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate topic--Please continue discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=942059&mesg_id=942059