The Terror Spin Cycle Is Getting Dangerously Short (For Bush)

[Presstitutes]

http://www.presstitutes.com/presstitutes/2005/10/the_terror_spin.html

Opponents of the Bush administration and of Bush's media enablers have typically waited months if not years for the administration's lies and deceptions to be revealed to the public. Case in point: millions of protesters around the world were certain that the Bush team was intentionally exaggerating the threat from Saddam in order to deceive America into war. Bush, Cheney, Powell and Condi's gesticulations, fabrications, and misrepresentations were so clearly implausible that it required a bare minimum of common sense to see right through them. But it's taken years for the truth to emerge and we're still learning more about the mountains of disinformation unleashed on a traumatized public after 9/11.

In a post entitled "Terror Marketing 101: Bush, Pre$$titutes & The Three Exposures Rule" we looked at the sophisticated persuasion tactics employed by the administration to market Bush and we argued that it wouldn't be possible without the complicity of the media.

"The Bush p.r. team makes full use of the three exposures rule: Three or more of the following in rapid succession: a Bush speech, a Bush radio address, a terror alert, a Blair speech echoing Bush, a 9/11-related event or ceremony, a Justice Dept. presser announcing the disruption of a domestic terror cell, a Pentagon presser announcing the capture of yet another terrorist 'mastermind' or an Al Qaeda #2, a cable special on terrorism, etc. It's the classic marketing principle of exposing people to a message at least three times before it sinks in."

It takes a complicit and credulous press for this technique to work. Now, the Bush marketing team and their Pre$$titute friends have handed us another terror trifecta: Bush's "major" speech on Thursday (which turned out to be a lame rehash of his usual tripe), a full-blown terror freak-out in New York (which turned out to be a hoax), and now a preposterous letter to a terrorist 'mastermind' from an Al Qaeda "number 2."

Sure enough, days after the first two parts of the trifecta collapsed, there are already doubts about the third, i.e. the intra-terrorist letter.

The rapid debunking of Bush's most recent terror propaganda effort, coupled with Thursday's bungled 'troop teleconference' signals a new and welcome trend: the radical abridgment of the Bush/terror spin cycle. What used to take months and years is now taking days and weeks. The fakery is being seen for what it is, and it's happening at a much faster pace. It is an ominous development for Bush, and it's bound to leave Pre$$titutes scrambling to defend their beloved leader.