Posted on 11/21/2011 1:35:34 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
As a journalist who’s covered American politics for the last 24 years, and who covered the Soviet Union as a foreign correspondent before that, I’ve learn to appreciate the dark art of political propaganda.....One of my all-time favorites is the straw man scam....
A recent example of the straw man scam came courtesy of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas. At a Family Leader conference in Iowa on Saturday, Mr. Perry said that “there is a time and a place for us to intervene and intervene militarily.”
Phew. Glad we got that cleared up.
Mr. Perry went on: “But when we intervene militarily, we best make the decision on how we are going to win and how we are going to win convincingly and quickly, send those young men and women with the equipment to win.”
....But Mr. Perry was not satisfied with two straw men, so we he went for a third. He said he did not want to “let some Congressman sitting in an air-conditioned office in Washington, D.C. deciding what the rules of engagement are. … And for us to micromanage them, in a civilian way, without their commanders truly in charge, is absolute irresponsible and as commander-in-chief of this country I will not let it happen.”
That’s a lot of stuff to digest, even leaving out that the president is not commander-in-chief of the country, but of the military. Surely he was not suggesting we do away with civilian control of the military. So what problem does he want to fix? When exactly does Mr. Perry think a politician micromanaged troops in the field? Is he trying to say that’s what President Obama does, or what one of his opponents would do?....
(Excerpt) Read more at loyalopposition.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Yep, Perry just stay RIGHT HERE on FR trying to persuade his haters to love him, not go out to the voters.
Perry just should throw himself in front of a Mack truck already! /perryhater
You’re really stretching. Perry’s doing the tv talkshow circuit, just like Cain and Bachmann have been doing. Cain has been on Leno, The View, etc. Does this make him a leftist? No. Its called reaching out to people otherwise not interested in politics. Good grief!
Perry fan Cincinatus’ Wife was the one bragging in the title of the article that he was being recognized by the liberal media. How is that stretching? Cain and Bachmann’s supporters do not write junk like that in their title. Sorry those are facts. Maybe you can learn something when things backfire on your a$$es.
But Cain was BRILLIANT because he went on David Letterman!!!!
If you don’t like getting responses about Perry going on Liberal shows then tell your Perry lovers to stop writing them in the article title. Nobody put nonsense on a Cain article title like you Perry supporters do. I know you can read. Perhaps you should try it sometime.
If you don’t like Cain being BRILLIANT because he went on Letterman, well, I know you LOVE Cain going on Letterman because whatever Cain does is BRILLIANT.
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