[Steely Tom]

I’m still wondering if the media and the civil rights activists decided to make this such a big story on their own, or whether the word came down from the White House or Media Matters that they needed to do this for Obama’s re-election. The idea would be to fire up the African American part of his base—just like the Sandra Fluke dog-and-pony show was designed to fire up the feminists.

I think the "brains" of the left have come up with a model that's based on military planning. They've predefined a set of pre-planned action packages and, to go with them, predefined "trigger events." They watch the domestic news wires 24/7, and, when a potential "trigger event" occurs, they convene a conference call within a very short time frame and decide whether that event reaches the threshold for one of the action packages. If they decide it does -- and the White House may be involved in the decision -- the packaged plan is put into motion.

I think it's pretty well established that this is what happened in the Limbaugh/Fluke situation. The whole thing, including the calls by local "ordinary citizens" to local radio stations and their local advertisers, was set up in advance. They'd been waiting for Rush to say something that reached the threshold for some time -- years, I think -- and, when he did, their plan was put into action immediately.

[Dead Corpse]

Agreed. The Left is Evil, they aren't necessarily stupid. They have a game plan and are executing as events crop up.

Games and Theory earmarks are all over their every press release and every meme that gets pushed out to the sheeple.

[Sans-Culotte]

I think the "brains" of the left have come up with a model that's based on military planning. They've predefined a set of pre-planned action packages and, to go with them, predefined "trigger events." They watch the domestic news wires 24/7, and, when a potential "trigger event" occurs, they convene a conference call within a very short time frame and decide whether that event reaches the threshold for one of the action packages. If they decide it does -- and the White House may be involved in the decision -- the packaged plan is put into motion.

That's absolutely how they do it.