Posted on 12/01/2008 11:42:16 AM PST by MHGinTN
When someone tries to promote a fraudulent public image, the best way to counter the forged image is to see how the forgery is constructed.
Astroturfing is a David Axelrod specialty. He is seeking to use the methodology to promote his fraudulent affirmative action candidate for president. It is a purposed deceit.
From wikipedia:
DEFINITION = Astroturfing in American English is a neologism for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising which seek to create the impression of being spontaneous "grassroots" behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass,
The goal of such a campaign is to disguise the efforts of a political or commercial entity as an independent public reaction to some political entity—a politician, political group, product, service or event. Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach", "awareness", etc.) and covert (disinformation) means. Astroturfing may be undertaken by an individual pushing a personal agenda or highly organized professional groups with financial backing from large corporations, non-profits, or activist organizations. Very often the efforts are conducted by political consultants who also specialize in opposition research.
Astroturfing is a form of propaganda whose techniques usually consist of a few people attempting to give the impression that mass numbers of enthusiasts advocate some specific cause.
The term "astroturfing" is also used to describe public relations activities aimed at "falsely creating the impression of independent, popular support by means of an orchestrated and disguised public relations exercise.
It has become easier to structure a commercial astroturfing campaign in the electronic era. Companies may use a boiler room full of telephones and computers where hired activists locate people and groups who create enthusiasm for the specified cause. Also, the use of psychographics allows hired supporters to persuade their targeted audience.
The use of ‘president-elect, Obama’ is just such a psychographic as described above. The media is enthusiastically using the phrase and even Hillary Clinton has used it in public.
All this ‘President-elect’ psychobabble is a designed campaign to arrange a powerful extortion position where, if Obama is rejected because he is not Constitutionally eligible--as he may actually know all too well at this point, the American public and the courts will meet the threat of extreme violence should the Astroturf affirmative action candidate be rejected by application of Constitutional law.
We are witnessing a professional astroturfing campaign to establish a fraud as the only choice in order to avoid violence. Now that you see the technique being used, the psychographic forgery will be defused in your mind.
David Axelrod is a professional deceiver. He is the ideal 'handler' for the promotion of a fraudulent affirmative action candidate, and extortion is the ‘Chicago Way’.
Thought it was about time to address this Axelrod methodology since it is now running so prominently in the sycophantic media.
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You are right that Axelrod is a master at media manipulation. The term ‘president-elect’ however, is not what is referred to here as psychographics. Psychographics is a term of art in marketing that segments individuals based on values and beliefs as a supplement to ‘demographics’ which is based on income, age, gender and education.
With apologies, your argument is well-intentioned, but...
The reason that the press (sycophantic or otherwise) is using the term “President-elect Obama” is because, like it or not, that is what he is.
I am among those who would not be disturbed if he was officially found to be disqualified, but snowballs in Hell are more likely.
Until after Dec 15, the term ‘president-elect’ is not valid. Nice try though ... did you think you were voting directly for Obama and not the electors of/for same?
In the field of marketing, demographics, opinion research, and social research in general, psychographic variables are any attributes relating to personality, values, attitudes, interests, or lifestyles. They are also called IAO variables (for Interests, Attitudes, and Opinions). They can be contrasted with demographic variables (such as age and gender), behavioral variables (such as usage rate or loyalty), and bizographic variables (such as industry, seniority and functional area).
When a relatively complete assessment of a person or group's psychographic make-up is constructed, this is called a psychographic profile. Psychographic profiles are used in market segmentation as well as in advertising.
The Telegraph ( UK) used the term in a a headline as follows
“President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US”
Just supportng your point
Ping.
Did everyone get a chance to see the Youtube video on how easy it is to fake an 0bama birth certificate?
“The reason that the press (sycophantic or otherwise) is using the term “President-elect Obama” is because, like it or not, that is what he is.”
No, actually until the Congress counts the electoral votes in January it is merely presumed that Obama will become President-elect. But he is not that yet.
The term "president-elect" has been used from the moment the election results were known for as long as I can remember in my almost 55 years. December 15 is really irrelevant to the term as what happens 12/15 is merely a procedural rubber stamp.
Hey, Jeff. How are ya these days?
Wouldn’t the title, “A PAUCITY of truth...” be a better fit in your link? That’s what The One’s given us about his birth and upbringing...
You make a very good point.
So it might the case that it would be better to say ‘presumptive-president-elect’ but Obama is certainly not the first person to be referred to as president-elect prior to the electoral college results. The funding for the transition team is even authorized for the president-elect well before the Electoral College acts.
In the strictest technical sense it may not be correct (but even that is a little bit of a reach) but it is certainly common parlance.
So it reamains a little hard to attribute the media’s use of the term to Axelrod.
To your overall point, though, it would have been nice if the public had been better educated regarding the techniques of media manipulation. But that is even less likely than Obama failing to get Electoral College ratification.
You are incorrect and under the assumption we are a democracy.
While you are correct in that, this is the first time I have seen daily press conferences with the assumed President-Elect in front of a sign that said “Office of President-Elect”.
The PAUCITY (or lack) of truth is what he has given. The Audacity of Truth is what I am attempting to provide.
8217? I don’t believe you!
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