Posted on 08/16/2009 7:34:04 PM PDT by El Gringo
The Townhall Game, it’s all bait and switch
How can the President turn away the tide rising against his health care plan? (How can he turn the lemon he currently is burdened with into lemonade?
Easy. It’s bait and switch followed by propaganda.
The bait is the promise of an open forum for “discussing issues.”
The propaganda portion comes a day later in the newspaper, in stories proclaiming the soundness and “democracy” of the “open forum.”
Here is the “forum” I attended. Think of it as a play with actors, reading scripts.
Cast: Congressman (Lord Claptrap) Toadies (A doctor, an authoritative figure, a victim ) Obama supporters (union people, Acorn people, casual fanatics, convenient ne’er-do-wells) Genuine opponents seeking to voice concerns (elderly folk, family folk, conservatives)
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