"How to Build A Fraud" - Great checklist from Waldman's Book

[RobertSeattle]

From the Back Cover of "Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You" by Paul Waldman

• Portray son of one of America’s most influential families as down-home Texan
  
• Berate media as "liberal" until they stop asking tough questions
  
• Take advantage of reporters’ tendency to not check the facts
  
• Mask reactionary policies in compassionate words and pictures
  
• Push false stories from right-wing media into mainstream media
  
• Extol the virtues of workers while systematically pushing an anti-labor agenda
  
• Propose a series of tax cuts aimed at the wealthy, but sell them as a boon to ordinary Americans
  
• Disguise destructive initiatives with friendly sounding names
  
• Befriend media with "genuine guy" routine
  
• Keep the public from accessing information
  
• Maintain message discipline at all times
  
• Question patriotism of anyone who disagrees
  
• Repeat above until it all seems true
  

Looks like another Great Bush "bash" book...

[JanMichael]

1. Just finished this book and loved it!

We also had him on the Guy James Show last weekend and he was very well versed in Bush bashing.

The chapter on Bushonomics was my favorite.