posted on April 16, 2002 10:18:58 PM new
" The big lie is coming unraveled.
You can tell by how heavy handed the spin campaign of Bush's "handlers" is becoming. Because rightwing and creative are mutually
exclusive qualities, when cornered, these sleazemeisters do not become diabolically clever (thank God for the rest of us!). Instead, they simply escalate their #*!@. Same #*!@, just louder and more of it. For example, for years now, the corporate right-wingers have been using the "call 'em loony" approach to discredit everyone from antiwar activists to environmentalists (i.e., if they are in any way challenging corporate
interests, they are wackos). This tactic was replaced temporarily by the McCarthy approach: anyone challenging corporate interests (these interests include war and censorship, of course) is "unAmerican." This
routine soon began to backfire though,because it turned most people off. So, now the right-wingers are back to the "you're with us or you're wacko" gig.
When congresswoman Cynthia McKinney spoke out this week about the possible political engineering of 9/11 — if not the event itself,then its freedom-trashing aftermath — a spokesman for the Carlyle Group sneered: "Did she say these things while standing on a grassy knoll in Roswell, New Mexico?" Ari "The Egg With Eyebrows" Fleischer has apparently taken up the same buzzword: grassy knoll (these guys are so unoriginal that when someone engineers for them what they imagine to be a great, clever line, they flog it to death!).
So strong critics of Bush are now "grassy knoll society" members, eh? Pretty strong put-down from a group of conscienceless robber barons whose biggest profits have come from destabilizing other countries, sickness, and death. The Carlyle group not only is a major weapons trader, it is also an oil pipeline contractor and a major shareholder in BioPort, an extremely peculiar little company that has been given exclusive contracts to produce an anthrax vaccine by the Bush administration — even though the same company failed an FDA inspection three times. On the Carlyle board sits George Bush, Sr. and several ruthless old fossils from past rightwing regimes, including Frank Carlucci (a former defense secretary who was Donny Rumsfeld's college roommate) and James Baker III (former sec. of state and the oilbag lawyer who helped Bush steal the 2000 election). Among the Carlyle groups closest associates are the Bin Laden family, to whom
Carlyle has acted as a "U.S. bank."
As far as I'm concerned, any criticism coming from a band of reptiles like the Carlyle Group should be considered highest praise by
anyone! Like having Hitler say he doesn't like your stand on human rights! So when you hear someone accused by anyone even remotely
connected to Bush of being a "wacko," "conspiracy theorist" or a member of the "grassy knoll society," you'll know who you better listen to, and closely! And we are listening to Cynthia McKinney and cheering
her on!"
(Cynthia McKinney, for anyone who hasn't heard, is a Georgia democratic congresswoman who recently made her beliefs a part of the congressional record)
posted on April 17, 2002 04:48:34 PM new
Fascinating (to me, anyway) that after all these years and so many other crimes, the preferred government/corporate way to label someone a "wacko" is to refer to The Grassy Knoll...
Anyone who wants to read more about Cynthia McKinney may do so here.
