# Manufacturing consent
I haven't posted anything political in a while. I couldn't resist this though. Apparently, Dubya had a live video conference chatting to the troops about Iraq. Obviously, they just warbled out everything that confirms the BS he normally spouts, nothing like 'well, sir, I'm sure glad to be here 'cause it means I don't have to be out there getting shot at'. No, none of that.
Perhaps it's a sign of Bush's freefalling popularity ratings, because instead of blindly accepting and foisting it on the masses like the 'liberal' media did before, they picked up that the entire thing was a scripted farce. In fact, so much of a farce that one of the soldiers interviewed wasn't an I-get-shot-at-for-a-living real soldier, she was a PR person. And Bush, the ever-proud military man, couldn't even get her rank straight.
Obviously, this kind of stuff happens all the time in all governments and you'd expect that people would be cynical enough to not buy into this crap. Except that you have to conclude that a significant number of people do actually buy into it, else they wouldn't bother doing it.
Perhaps it's a sign of Bush's freefalling popularity ratings, because instead of blindly accepting and foisting it on the masses like the 'liberal' media did before, they picked up that the entire thing was a scripted farce. In fact, so much of a farce that one of the soldiers interviewed wasn't an I-get-shot-at-for-a-living real soldier, she was a PR person. And Bush, the ever-proud military man, couldn't even get her rank straight.
Obviously, this kind of stuff happens all the time in all governments and you'd expect that people would be cynical enough to not buy into this crap. Except that you have to conclude that a significant number of people do actually buy into it, else they wouldn't bother doing it.
File under: politiek : {2005.10.15 09:58}
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