Bigger, Louder, Meme-ier!
By Mitch Berg
With great fanfare, the Democrats last week launched a devastating fusillade of rhetorical counterfire in the battle for the American Mind – or perhaps the American “Mind” – this past week with the splashy launch/relaunch of…
…well, a bunch of websites. To spread “the truth” about Barack Obama and his Administration.
RT Rybak took time off from finding ways to trade cops for bike paths to declare “We’re not going to take any baloney”. And he seems a mayor of his word; reading the sites involved, it seems that the Dems are committed to giving “baloney” back, and upping the ante in the rhetorical luncheon-meat department. Another lefty shill said that the “Ministry Of Truth” sites are a response to the “sleazy GOP money” from the likes of the Koch brothers – the left’s straw-boogeyman-du-jour. Meaning that we’ll have Rockefeller, Soros and Big Union money to fight against big private sector money.
Let’s take a look at the Ministry Of Truth’s array of websites:
KeepingHisWord.com could be better called “Rhetorical Needles Threaded.com”; it’s devoted to repeating Obama Administration chanting points. But here’s an innovation; the type is really really big. Each “article” is, basically , a sentence, carefully trimmed for easy memorization for people who don’t think that hard about things. It is, intellectually and rhetorically, the next steup up from Duckspeak.
KeepingGOPHonest.com is more of the same, with a Green emphasis; the site recycles Gingrich, Santorum, Paul and Romney campaign hit points against the other campaigns. It’s basically an RSS feed of the big four campaigns’ negative pieces, only dumbed down for, you know, the Democrat electorate.
AttackWatch.com is…Attackwatch! It’s our old friend, better known to conservatives and other sentient people as “Stasi.gov.us”; still asking for people to report in to Zentralkontrolle about Badthink aimed at The One and His administration.
So what conclusions can we reach about the Democrat campaign, viewed through the prism of their Ministry Of Truth’s websites?
- They are admitting Democrat voters have no attention span. This stuff is written to the level and attention span of a third-grader with ADD. They need Big Thoughts broken down into easily-memorized, quickly-chantable bullets, or sanitized, officially-sanctioned Big Humor
- They need to dodge the Big Question at all costs: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” The answer hidden in plain sight on these sites is “Yes – if you are government”.
February 15th, 2012 at 8:04 am
George Orwell would be so proud. Can you imagine if a GOP candidate did anything like that. If people believe ‘lies’ about him its probably because there is at least a kernel of truth to it.
February 15th, 2012 at 8:10 am
If they could only learn from this cute little blog……hahahahahahahaha!
February 15th, 2012 at 8:59 am
The next time the 0bama administration tells the truth will be the first.
February 15th, 2012 at 9:40 am
Mitch has assessed the situation correctly. These “truthers” are no different than the Stasi, Gestapo or Brown Shirts. I’m surprised that Dip Stick Ken Martin hasn’t volunteered his entire staff over on Pluto (yes, I meant to spell it this way) Blvd. to work in these goon squads. Even more surprising is that this action isn’t ringing any bells with the liberal morons, but then libturds only recognize free speech that supports their left wing agenda.
February 15th, 2012 at 9:48 am
Toking on the lithium a little early today, aren’t we, Ears?
February 15th, 2012 at 10:18 am
they actually could Ears, you know we allow dissenting opinion and debate on here, until the liberal is usually shamed into going away because they can’t debate so they just throw slurs and insults at us, re: AngryClown (well not yet for him), DogGone ( haven’t heard from her in awhile), Penigma (who writes their own blog now), Spot, and countless others that have slipped my mind.
February 15th, 2012 at 11:11 am
When Ears tries to copy the patented Swiftee moonbat mockery laugh, I picture a little pencilneck giggling like a school girl and dribbling poop out of his pants legs.
Now go change your underalls and leave the mockery to the professionals ya twerp…
BWAaaaaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
February 15th, 2012 at 11:31 am
When all they’ve got is snark, you’ve won.
February 15th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
I just cut-n-pasted “Earsall”‘s comment as a reply to the latest Penigma blog post. Let’s see if it makes it past the team of censors they’ve got and actually ends up on the internets.
February 15th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Last September, a lot of us had some fun, mocking AttackWatch. I “did my civic duty”, and turned my (mostly news parody) blog in to The Regime.
As The RedSquirrel, I mock Obama relentlessly. I thought that writing “Snitching On The MOB” would be a fun way of illustrating and
lambasting Obama’s unAmerican idea of neighbors ratting each other out.
Mitch, I apologize for referring to you as a ‘reprehensible rapscallion’, but REPREHENSIBLE is such a funny word, mostly because Barney Frank made it funny. I also like aliteration.
….and Michelle Malkin is not the queen of right-wing slime. She’s one of my heroes.
February 15th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
We have to do something for the MOB party to mock this, any ideas Mitch?
February 15th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
Joe, you did an excellent job last time around, you are almost as funny as the People’s Cube. We need to all sign up for fightthesmears.com and find out what BS the Obama regime, I mean administration, is sending them
February 15th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Sorry to hog posting here but in response to Terry
When all they’ve got is snark, you’ve won.
First they ignore you
Then they mock you
Then they fight you
Then you win
-Ghandi
Words to live by
February 15th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Well they posted the comment at Penigma’s place, but Dog Gone found it strangely unresponsive to the post.
February 15th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
DG should recognize that. Only difference is she takes a page to say what a normal person can say in a sentence or two. She must have went to graduate school
February 16th, 2012 at 12:57 am
Ben-
I think “Have went” is wrong. The past tense of “go” is “gone”, not “went”.
You Minnesotans and your crazy usage . . .