What is with Corporate Pravda calling Dean supporters "fans"?

[tom_paine]

Anybody noticed that besides me?

Now, let me preface my statements by saying I am not a Dean supporter, per se, other than that he is on my short list of candidates I would strongly support, work for, donate to, etc.

But I am a student of our debased and degraded and parasitized Formerly Free Press and that which drags it along behind, the Party-Loyal Right-Wing Sub-Media.

My take on it is this is clearly another meme having originated somewhere among the multi-billion dollar Bushevik Propaganda edifice I call Goebbels v2.0 having been adopted by the hapless remnanats of what was once the greatest Press in the world, but which is now a laughingstock.

Naturally, like the oily scum that follows in the wake of a speedboat, the Corporate Pravda both print and TV, just lazily drifts in the wake wherever the boat takes it.

The use of "Fan" here is clear, from a marketing and PR standpoint. Like the rest of Uncle Newtie's psychomaipulative "contrasting words", it is designed to immediately paint Deans SUPPORTERS as immature and flighty and stupid and of course, nothing no self-respecting adult would get involved in.

How to fight this? I don't know. I've seen hundreds of these psychoengineered Bushevik memes enter Corporate Pravda that you would think the Busheviks are running all of them.

But that is probably not true. Laziness and pack mentality explain much of it, as does the cowardly response of Corporate Pravda every time the Mighty Wurlitzer of the Party-Loyal Sub-Media threatens to blast them with some freshly laundered lies.

But I just wanted to bring this up. Dean supporters...did you know you are all "fans"?

[gristy]

1. A google search of "Dean fan" yields

3 hits. Here's the total for other candidates:

Bush: 7
Kerry: 0
Edwards: 1
Clark: 0

I don't think there is any problem here.

[tom_paine]

2. You sure about that?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Dean+fan%22

3340 hits

Here's Howard "Dean fan" (eliminates the James Dean fanclubs and such)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Dean+fan%22+Howard&btnG=Google+Search

1130 hits

Got a link to your supposed search?

[gristy]

4. You are searching google

Sorry, I should have said I searched news.google

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&scoring=d&edition=us&q=%22Dean+fan%22&btnG=Search+News

Using your very good culling method <first name> "<last name> fan", the totals for google:

Dean 1130
Kerry 242
Clark 546
Edwards 219
Bush 2780

So Dean has more "fans" than the other dem candidates. But he also probably has the most written about him, and up until Monday, he probably did have the most fans. But bush tops them all.

[tom_paine]

6. Ok, consider me red-faced

Sorry if my last message was a bit rude.

[gristy]

9. No prob. I wasn't clear.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. I don't see a problem with it, politicians are celebrities, and Dean is

not the only candidate who has some very ardent very admiring supporters who appear to be more drawn to him as a persona than to issues or his positions on them.

And as has been pointed out countless times by many people who are and many who are not Dean supporters, at the end of the day, politics is not about issues, or ideology, or policies, or whatever you want to call it. ;)

[oldcoot]

5. I rather be called a "Fan" than a "Storm Trooper."

A CBS article called Dean supporters "storm troopers." I do love the liberal media.

[tom_paine]

7. CBS? Got a link?

If true, that's pathetic!

[AntiCoup2K4]

8. Funny you should analogize the corporate media with "oily scum"

...sonsidering that Oil (industry) Scum is exactly who they work for :evilgrin: