The Goebbels Card

On Friday, "Carson", a commenter in a thread about incivility in politics today, took umbrage with my invocation of Joseph Goebbels' "Big Lie" statement. Carson, a local blogger, said:

You know what they say when in the argument, someone references Hitler and the Nazis...

Speaking of... there are only two people that I usually here comparing Goebbels and liberals.

The first is Michael Savage. And the second is Bill O'Reilly. Fun group to align ones self with.

Well, I only go into O'Reilly/Savage territory when I absolutely have to. So you know it's serious.

It's serious.

I've been saying for months now - since the end of primary season - that the Democrats' main talking points have involved relentless repetition of a series of tropes with only dubious relation to the truth, in the hope that the endless reiteration would create the impression in enough minds that they were facts.

There have been a number of these issues that have been popping up with almost supernatural regularity:

• "The Swifties Lied"
• "Iraq's a QUAGmire!"
• "The Economy's In the Tank!"
• "Bush was selected, not elected!"
• "Bush was AWOL!"

I'm going to try to tackle each of these, in (more or less) order over the next couple of days.

Posted by Mitch at September 20, 2004 08:00 AM | TrackBack