The Interweb and Social Engineering...

Honestly I had hoped to delve into the concept of using the interweb to socially engineer people with a different topic, global warming, but I have a very compellingly retarded cnn.com commentary to use this morning that's just as illustrative.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/10/cafferty.republicans/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Author Jack Cafferty proposes that the GOP has become a cartoon. Okay, that's fair enough. After all, we do not speak that highly of ourselves given the slap-dash way we handled the Democrat assault. We DO have much to answer for.

Let's see if we're on the same page, shall we?

Point 1) Bobby Jindal quoted as saying "I'm certainly not nearly as good of a speaker as Obama". Grammatically correct? Well, maybe a mild bit shaky, yet certainly not the sort of thing to tar him as a horrible leader for the GOP. And somehow that is how Cafferty sees it. His whole point... his ONLY point, is a minor grammatical slip of the tongue that... let's be honest... is practically unnoticeable. It would take but a few seconds to find far more incriminating evidence against Hussein.

Point 2) Sarah Palin's "abuse" of taxpayer money while running for VP. In these days of biblical-level abuses hers amounts to shoplifting a candy bar when placed against such ignoble efforts as flying Air Force One to Chicago for a haircut and to shoot hoops. And the point that she IS paying back the taxes owed suggests that she would STILL qualify for a cabinet post in the new administration because that's what at least five of Hussein's top cabinet picks are already doing. Her "...tawdry grab at a few dollars that didn't belong to her" is more akin to finding someones lost dollar bill on the street compared to the far worse misappropriation of over a trillion dollars in an non -starter and mis-guided attempt to kick-start the economy that puts illegal aliens to work and yields no tangible results.

Point 3) Michael Steele's apology to Rush. Y'know, when you unfairly malign someone it's not a sign of weakness to apologize. This incident is being characterized as bowing to Rush's all-consuming power, yet the reality is that Steele did the manly thing and accepted that he had mis-spoke. Compare that to President Hussein calling back the NY Times to change quotes he gave them just the other day because he had mis-spoke and you get to see my point.

Rush is a spiritual leader of the party. Not the elected head. In order for the Republican party to rebuild a sense of community needs to exist, and the Democrats seek, through this kind of social engineering, to disrupt that community, Get us all to hate our teammates.

Point 4) Seizing the opportunity of President Hussein being elected to turn our backs on our principals and become Democrats - This is pretty much what this retard said. His version of events, a version backed by popularity polls, says that the Republicans missed a golden opportunity to join the fight to rob Americans blind and subvert their way of life, but instead we opted for the horrid idea of holding to our principals and fighting the Democrats.

Did you know that according to Jack Cafferty,"... The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows the Republican Party's favor ability rating at an all-time low. President Obama's is at an all-time high. The same poll shows that Republicans are getting most of the blame for the partisanship that hinders governmental progress.".

Let's parse that. What it actually says is, without a second party you wouldn't have bi-partisanship.

At least he's accurate.

My God, what a retard.

Social engineering is a combined and concerted effort on many fronts both subtle and gross to paint an unrelenting picture of whatever it is that is being painted in order to change the mind of the reader. Facts are not required, and in fact are frequently ignored. Polls are cited as if they are factual information. The mantra is to repeat these things ad nauseum until the idiots in the world believe them.

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