Tag: GOP Propaganda
Clinton: GOP Doesn’t Want Voters to Think
They’re trying to get you to check your brain at the door, start foaming at the mouth. The last thing they want you to do is think.
— Bill Clinton, quoted by The Hill, on the Republican party.
Jeb Bush: The GOP Has a Listening Problem, Not an Ideological One
We’re a center-right country, but conservatives won’t govern again soon unless we … get outside our comfort zones to listen.
— Jeb Bush, quoted by the Washington Examiner.
NBC Staffers Dreading Network’s Clinton Mini-Series Fallout
We know there’s this giant firewall, we know that we have nothing to do with it, and we’re going to only own the negative, whether its negative because, you know, the Clinton people are upset that it’s too tough on them or negative because the Republicans think it’s this glorification of her.
— NBC News’ White House correspondent Chuck Todd, on Morning Joe Thursday, calling NBC’s planned miniseries about Hillary Clinton a “total nightmare for NBC News.”
Prepare for the Economic Collapse — The End Is Nigh!
We need to prepare for the inevitable collapse that is going to happen: You know it’s going to happen. That’s right, I am a politician and I am standing up here and saying that.
— Washington state Rep. Matt Shea (R), quoted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, on the coming economic collapse.
Fox News Propagandists ‘Disappear’ Romney’s Claim That U.S. Does Not Need More First Responders and Teachers
Mitt Romney’s latest gaffe came at the end of last week when he attacked Pres. Obama’s call to hire more first responders and educators. Pres. Obama, he said, “says we need more firemen, more policemen, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”
How bad was the gaffe? So bad that the Republicans’ propaganda network made it disappear, according to Media Matters:
Facts, Polls Be Damned, Republicans Fight to Keep Ruinous Bush Tax Policy – Their Goal Is Not ‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs,’ It’s to Make Obama ‘Fail, Fail, Fail’
The Republicans have now boiled down their debate points for extending tax breaks to the uber wealthy to this:
INTERVIEWER: But, Your Excellency, the Bush tax cuts have been in place for 10 years and they have not produced jobs. They are also directly responsible for the deficit. So why should we extend them?
REPUBLICAN: We cannot raise taxes in a recession!
Of course, if the economy were in great shape, the GOP answer would be:
REPUBLICAN: We cannot raise taxes when the economy is booming!!
And I’m just kidding about the interviewer’s question. The news-show hosts rarely if ever confront Republicans about the simple, empirically knowable, no-two-sides-to-it fact that these wealthy Americans, whom Republicans euphemistically refer to as “small business owners” — the Paris Hiltons, Koch brothers, Meg Whitmans, Donald Trumps and, strangely enough, George Soroses of the world — having enjoyed the luxury of the Bush tax cuts for 10 years, did not create jobs with their “extra” money.
It is an equally knowable, non-debatable fact available to straight-down-the-line, fair-to-both-sides journalists that during the Bush era the rich got much richer:
