Political Lunacy: Bait and Switch

[acmavm]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/weblogs/luna/archives/000980.html

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The Republican Talk Radio Machine seemed caught off guard by the ferocity of the questioning he received in Kuwait City, especially the ballistic question from Spc. Thomas Wilson, a scout with a Tennessee National Guard unit, over the lack of adequate armor for guardsmen vehicles being deployed north into Iraq.

Limbaugh was mum when the story broke, and most of the rest said scarcely a word in the face of news reports that belayed their continuing assertions from their broadcast bully pulpits that all is well in Iraq but for the slanted reporting of a treacherous American liberal press. Come the next day, however, they had their talking points in line.

(Question – do Limbaugh, and Hannity, et. al, get a fax each morning telling them what to say? An email? Or is it coincidence that they always are in lock step with the message of the day?)

Seems Spc. Wilson had been “coached” on his question by an embedded reporter from Chattanooga. Ipso facto, Limbaugh and crew declare, the question is null and void – the tainted fruit of the tree of the treacherous liberal media, the evil serpent in the garden of conservative paradise. Therefore the question can be disregarded, as can Rumsfeld’s stumbling response. Poor Donny was ambushed, you see, by an unfair question. Set up. A sitting duck, like an armorless Humvee sent down the Baghdad airport road. Blame it on the press.

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It doesn’t matter if the question concerning lack of adequate armor had been written on a hairball hocked up by a cat at Rumfeld’s feet. What matters is the validity of the claim that such armor protection is lacking and the quality of Rumsfeld’s response.

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Interesting to read the responses to this piece. The funny thing is no one's really being fooled, they're just slanting their responses to fit the administration's propaganda (i.e. Limpballs, Hannity, etc.)

[wyldwolf]

1. Answer to your question: YES!

Rightwing radio does get morning blast faxs of talking points.

It is the same one sent out to all the GOP - especially the ones appearing on TV shows like Meet The Press.

[proudbluestater]

2. Makes me sick. I think they are emailed talking points

and it wouldn't be so bad if it was just Rush and Faux, but it's also CNN.

I think the crap about the question being planted is much like the Dan Rather uproar, all be design to DEFLECT the attention from the REAL issue. I hate the right-wing media with a passion.