McCain DECEPTS in Bethlehem (Pa.)
McCain DECEPTS in Pa. (July 23, '08)
I.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D923OQCO0&show_article=1
McCain credits Bush for drop in oil price
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign. The cost of oil and gasoline is "on everybody's mind in this room," McCain told a town-hall meeting.
This illustrates what psychosemiotics labels the DECEPT formula : show up, read their minds, deliver attack on opponents, exit
Attack procedure:
A. Arouse strong disapprobative force: "what's on everybody's mind -- price of gas" (cf. "pain at the pump")
B. Split the aroused anger response between two opposing sides, including 'yours' (the speaker's: => good, Republican) first; vrs. 'theirs' (=> bad, Democrat) as blamed opposition.
(This works largely through 'we' identifications among the speaker and audience members; why they showed up.)
C. Link justification for blaming 'them' to some alleged fact. (Ex.: Bush's off shore drilling proposal caused $10 per barrel drop in oil.)
That's it. Questions or comments? -Off to Bethlehem (Pa)
******
It is always the factual ambiguity, predicating on questionable assumptions, that tips off a DECEPT.
In three-brain analysis, this is brain 1 content, and the fact that it can be weak to off-the-wall absurd shows how little any thinking or reasoning goes into the campaign process, at all, relating to the national life. The facts are never considered in their own right (as in: "Wait! let's stop and consider whether Bush's proposal eased oil prices!" "-whether anti-Vietnam war protestors weakened POW morale", another of his claims). The motive force derives from brain 3, to deliver an attack on the opponents. Thought processes are rung in as little as possible, since they invariably slow down and confuse the movement the snake brain is programmed to make efficiently, if given full head-brain cooperation.
Brain 2 is present as the dis/approbative factor, what is pleasing and not in considering the two sides split apart. The campaign stop is, after all, an 'appeal' for their vote. The vote, itself, expresses a double* bond, with negation: bonding whoever actually does it by the act of doing so; while, at the same time, each opposing side negates the other's position. Every election process is always an attempt to bring the Soul, as an autonomous unity of process, into political partisan opposites over some issue of mammalian interests.
The flip side of the spurious brain 1 information content elaborates the motive further. James Petras,
http://petras.lahaine.org/b2lhart_imp.php?p=1744&more=1&c=1
points out that gas prices soared in the first place when, and surely partly as the result of, "Zionists and their allies in Congress authored, implemented and enforced sanctions against Iran". This blocked the worlds biggest oil and gas company from doing business there. Again, "Israeli war exercises and public declarations threatening a massive air assault on Iran" threatened to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz shipping and sent petroleum prices spiking to world records. Israel's perception of 'existential threat' from Iran's nuclear program causing Americans pain at the pump. uh ... Few things more highly disapprobative and 'enemy'- sounding than that. Cut. Paste: Democrats blocking Bush's off shore drilling which brought partial remedy. Result: DECEPT (Wilkes-Barre).
II.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/DN-mccain_24pol.ART.State.Edition1.4da3ba2.html
McCain says surge began before Bush's order for troop increases
06:49 AM CDT on Thursday, July 24, 2008
The Associated Press
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Republican John McCain pushed back Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Mr. Bush announced the strategy in early 2007.
He told reporters during an unscheduled stop in a supermarket that what the Bush administration calls "the surge" was actually "made up of a number of components," some of which began before the president's order for more troops.
At issue are Mr. McCain's comments in a Tuesday interview with CBS. The Arizona senator disputed Democrat Barack Obama's contention that a Sunni revolt against al-Qaeda combined with the dispatch of thousands more U.S. combat troops to Iraq to improve security there. Mr. McCain called that a "false depiction."
*****
This was an altogether odd, even bizzare campaign tidbit. But as an event in TokenSpace, a DECEPT, it bespoke volumes.
First of all, it was an unscheduled stop in Bethlehem. That had to have been arranged because of its symbolic resonance. Barack Obama had arrived in Israel from Jordan the day before with pictures of him in a Yarmulka praying at the wailing wall in Old Jerusalem, calling Israel itself a "miracle." The PR impact of this message was enormous. Moderates around all sides on the oceans were greatly empowered.
As if it had been anticipated, McCain materializes, speaking from inside a grocery store, in front of the cheese section, just down the verbal road to Christ's birthplace itself: Bethlehem (Pa.). The impact of this, on me, was jaw dropping. So it was on Keith Olberman who wondered aloud whether the old guy would make it much longer out there on the hustings.
The oddity only begins with this mythic synthronicity, no doubt arranged so as to communicate according to the tokens rather than the texts. No advance notice was given that he was coming, only one reporter reading a scripted question about his misremembering the time- line of the so-called Surge and the Anbar Province, 'awakening' in Iraq. This was, and remains, a virulent issue between the two sides since Obama had voted against it and McCain for it in early '07, and the ongoing premiss of all who oppose troop withdrawal -- as mandated by the '06 vote -- is that it was a "success", and it's being so justifies having reversed the will of the people and contradicted democracy.
Speaking extemporaneously, but from pre-scripted
talking points, he explained that the term "surge", used throughout the MSM, is military shorthand for "counter insurgency" operations, such as begun in Anbar against Al Queda and the Sunni insurgents. It is an issue especially sensitive to him, because he has an inside line on how things have gone. In the first place, he had spoken personally with Colonel MacFarlane and learned that the 'Awakening' in which some Suuni tribal leaders switched sides against al Queda, the beginning of the surge had begun then, in December '06. Secondly, when the time came to support the increased troop levels with funding, he had had to buck some powerful members of his own party who wanted to block the plan. He stood out as one of Bush's most vocal backers.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250214,00.html
"WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans tried to rally support Monday against a non-binding resolution that if passed would amount to a no-confidence vote on President Bush's Iraq 'surge' plan.
The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain, slammed the resolution and its supporters as wrong and intellectually dishonest.
"I hope they keep in mind that this is fundamentally a vote of no confidence in the people that we are sending on this mission in harm's way. We are telling them, 'we support you but we believe your mission will fail. We don't believe what you're doing,' " McCain said.
*****
This is, in fact, the consistent position. He's got that to hold over the head of the half hearted. Never mind that NOONE defends the mission, as originally drawn, and are hard put to define it, now, in any terms that were not rejected by the 'o6 vote to get out. Now that the surge has proven successful, he can wag his finger, raise his voice, and call them would-have-been losers. So long as the Iraq war issue is framed in terms of Surge Success, he has an invuncuble argument. If It wins, he wins; twice; and they lose.
This is the ambiguous information stage of the DECEPT. Is the surge a success? Did it "work"? Cite evidences, please.
If you say "yes", you will the Hallelulah chorus, led by the spectrum of NY Times Jews from David Brooks to Tom Friedman. Brooks even finds something redemptive for Bush in it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/opinion/24brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
BROOKS
The Bush Paradox
Let’s go back and consider how the world looked in the winter of 2006-2007. Iraq was in free fall, with horrific massacres and ethnic cleansing that sent a steady stream of bad news across the world media. The American public delivered a stunning electoral judgment against the Iraq war, the Republican Party and President Bush
Expert and elite opinion swung behind the Baker-Hamilton report, which called for handing more of the problems off to the Iraqi military and wooing Iran and Syria. Republicans on Capitol Hill were quietly contemptuous of the president while Democrats were loudly so.
In these circumstances, it’s amazing that George Bush decided on the surge. And looking back, one thing is clear: Every personal trait that led Bush to make a hash of the first years of the war led him to make a successful decision when it came to this crucial call."
*******
FRIEDMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/opinion/23friedman.html
John McCain needs to wake up and smell the Arabic coffee
I know this is not an easy time for him. When you have been beaten up for four years because of your support for the Iraq war, and then you get something big right — your support for the surge — you want to be able to savor that for a while. You want to make your rightness on that issue the issue of this election.
McCain was right about the surge. It has helped to stabilize Iraq and create a better chance there for political reconciliation. But Iraq has always been a story full of surprises. And one of the most important political surprises is how quickly the surge has made Iraq safe for Barack Obama’s foreign policy — and for the election policy of the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
****
Such is the Received Opinion. Across the board. So strong it is, in fact, that John McCain is on Sat., 26 am TV having surged, himself.
"While Obama was wooing and wowing 'em overseas, McCain has risen in the polls. He may be popular over there, but back home is where he will have to win the votes, and the polls show he hasn't closed the deal." It's as if First, there was 911 (followed up by the false flag anthrax poisoning episode), then Second, there was The Surge of '07. Now the Republican presidential campaign has gone back, as is their custom, to insert a slight technical adjustment. It is part of what you say to yourself -- "the surge is in there" -- when you see and think of the fine work our counter insurgent soldiers do. Having The Military Man, McCain, sock puppet this into the historical narrative is the Snake-Brain/Head-Brain DECEPT link. The MSM will now be obliged to stop!, rethink; tone down the Viagra -Surge jokes; ..and examine whether or not they, themselves, honest hardworking Jane's and Joes as they are, and put in the unfortunate positions of bringing forth a public grammar, didn't really secretly want to see troops dying for nothing and America defeated, like liberals do. The Fox News TV spot showing The Man looming large, head on, square jawed, repeating again the line that the Surge's success, "which no reasonable observer now denies" validates his judgment establishes that this IS the line the Republicans will run on. Their term of bottom line nitty gritty patriotic approbation.
McCain's insertion of its token into the stream of discourse, embedded in a longer term of military use, installed a processing loop in the space of shared communication wherever the subject is later touched on. This is psychosemiotic revisionism, a key elementin group mind control (more below).
A look back at the history of the Surge's use 'wires around' the loop. When it was first trotted out in January and February of '07 as the One Word Reversal of the sense of the '06 election, launching one of the broadest and most extensive political advertising campaigns of all time to back a war strategy that had been demonstrably rejected by official democratic vote, no one could take it seriously, at first, except the ones inside who faced choices. It didn't take a PR expert to see that the term 'worked', psychosemiotically, through what can be called 'the tittilation factor' -- recently confirmed as one of America's psychological plagues by the Pope, btw.
The name connotes a laundry detergent, constipation relief, erectile disfunction remedy, surfer's ocean tide -- and, if you go with it, "support the surge?", you "support the troops." Who is going to vote against a Troop Surge? It just doesn't sound right.
--And THAT is the name of the right wing political reversal game: use inserted terminology for your mental processes to loop through that will bring up a latent self-contradiction, so that you will be contradicting something in yourself if you deny THEIR predications. If you are one of those who would have "voted against the surge", you are one of the sillies who would deny themselves little indulgences and eschew glory on the battlefield, in addition to.dragging down troop support. You are no doubt a hypocrite who secretly makes love (brown paper bag, internet porn style), not War, unwilling to even defend your right to enjoy all that concupiscence. John McCain leads the "At least let's be honest" pack. Who never are; its just the final (Reversal Squared) way of continuing the dishonesty.
CRIMINALITY IN SIGN-USE
McCain's stop in Bethlehem (Pa) amounted to psychosemiotic revisionism. An effective buzz word, with bathroom associations, is first introduced as a principle designator in a publicity campaign designed to reverse a deep, wide, profound group sentiment, (A brain 2 content shared by individuals: war revulsion.) Next, this word, recalled from that context of use as a designator, still carrying its blinky and confused political associations, but given a refined, quasi-technical use by one authorized to speak as a cohort of such things (brain 1), is applied to a situation calling for decision and action ('closing the deal') (brain 3).
This is the situation that 'we', the public, are left with. In order to decide and act, by voting, we are required to use the language of the campaign,This has now been corrupted by specially designed designators, disambiguated by approbations. What is meant is not fixed, but 'waggles' in the consciousness where the political alignments committed to one way or another pervades the processes. Put bluntly: the language has become politicized, so that even to communicate in the election discourse is subjects oneself to psychic manipulation and possible sanction. Since all such means of deception contradict the very premise of democracy as free vote by informed people, this re-looping of "The Surge" through brain 1 (quasi technical thought-meaning), over* memory content of brain 2 (political approbative polarity), in the service of brain 3 (with the decision to attack Iran hanging in the balance, to agree 'the surge is a success' is to go with the flow of snake brain satanism.
******
The Surge is Jewish Freedom's Watch is Orwellian
Ari Fleisher Freedom's Watch/ AEI coterie
A. Back in '07
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/politics/30watch.html?hp
Big Coffers and a Rising Voice Lift a New Conservative Group
Freedom’s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former senior White House officials, made an audacious debut in late August when it began a $15 million advertising campaign designed to maintain Congressional support for President Bush’s troop increase in Iraq.
Founded this summer by a dozen wealthy conservatives, the nonprofit group is set apart from most advocacy groups by the immense wealth of its core group of benefactors, its intention to far outspend its rivals and its ambition to pursue a wide-ranging agenda. Its next target: Iran policy.
Next month, Freedom’s Watch will sponsor a private forum of 20 experts on radical Islam that is expected to make the case that Iran poses a direct threat to the security of the United States, according to several benefactors of the group..
B. Surge Protectors - later
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_10_08/article1.html
Late this summer, just as American political armies were squaring off over the next, and likely last, act of President Bush’s Iraq War policy, a new pro-war group called Freedom’s Watch announced a $15-million ad buy over several months in key states. The first ads featured soldiers who had been maimed in Iraq but stood by the cause of a global war on terror. Political observers said they were targeted at the districts of Republican congressmen who were going wobbly on the war....
The Jewish press offered a different take. “Pro-Surge Group Is Almost All Jewish,” reported the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the lead wire service for Jewish news. Four out of five members of the Freedom’s Watch board are Jews, and half of its donors are Jewish. The JTA quoted one of its directors, Matthew Brooks, saying this was strictly a “coincidence.”
***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSWzoGGmpqQ
Bring Them Home, don't be fooled again
C. Now '08 => McCain
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2942.shtml
Freedom's Watch may spend up to $250 million in 2008 election
By Bill Berkowitz
Online Journal Guest Writer
Feb 12, 2008, 00:14
President Bush has been to Las Vegas nine times since he was first inaugurated, but last Wednesday was the first time he ever stayed overnight in Sin City. He and his aides (and the traveling press corps) did so in luxury, staying at the Venetian, the palatial casino resort run by Sheldon Adelson, the chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp. and a big force in GOP and philanthropic circles. (He is part of the money behind Freedom's Watch, the conservative foreign policy group formed as a kind of counterpoint to liberal groups like MoveOn.org.) Adelson and his wife, Miriam, were in the loading dock at the Venetian Thursday to greet Bush and jumped into his limousine to ride with him to his speech sponsored by a conservative think tank.
After the speech, Adelson -- who was at the White House in November for the official dinner for French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- hosted Bush at a Nevada GOP fundraiser at his home in the Tournament Hills gated community. A Nevada GOP official would not provide figures for the total take. -- Michael Abramowitz, in the Washington Post, February 4, 2008.
****
I.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D923OQCO0&show_article=1
McCain credits Bush for drop in oil price
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - Republican John McCain on Wednesday credited the recent $10-a-barrel drop in the price of oil to President Bush's lifting of a presidential ban on offshore drilling, an action he has been advocating in his presidential campaign. The cost of oil and gasoline is "on everybody's mind in this room," McCain told a town-hall meeting.
This illustrates what psychosemiotics labels the DECEPT formula : show up, read their minds, deliver attack on opponents, exit
Attack procedure:
A. Arouse strong disapprobative force: "what's on everybody's mind -- price of gas" (cf. "pain at the pump")
B. Split the aroused anger response between two opposing sides, including 'yours' (the speaker's: => good, Republican) first; vrs. 'theirs' (=> bad, Democrat) as blamed opposition.
(This works largely through 'we' identifications among the speaker and audience members; why they showed up.)
C. Link justification for blaming 'them' to some alleged fact. (Ex.: Bush's off shore drilling proposal caused $10 per barrel drop in oil.)
That's it. Questions or comments? -Off to Bethlehem (Pa)
******
It is always the factual ambiguity, predicating on questionable assumptions, that tips off a DECEPT.
In three-brain analysis, this is brain 1 content, and the fact that it can be weak to off-the-wall absurd shows how little any thinking or reasoning goes into the campaign process, at all, relating to the national life. The facts are never considered in their own right (as in: "Wait! let's stop and consider whether Bush's proposal eased oil prices!" "-whether anti-Vietnam war protestors weakened POW morale", another of his claims). The motive force derives from brain 3, to deliver an attack on the opponents. Thought processes are rung in as little as possible, since they invariably slow down and confuse the movement the snake brain is programmed to make efficiently, if given full head-brain cooperation.
Brain 2 is present as the dis/approbative factor, what is pleasing and not in considering the two sides split apart. The campaign stop is, after all, an 'appeal' for their vote. The vote, itself, expresses a double* bond, with negation: bonding whoever actually does it by the act of doing so; while, at the same time, each opposing side negates the other's position. Every election process is always an attempt to bring the Soul, as an autonomous unity of process, into political partisan opposites over some issue of mammalian interests.
The flip side of the spurious brain 1 information content elaborates the motive further. James Petras,
http://petras.lahaine.org/b2lhart_imp.php?p=1744&more=1&c=1
points out that gas prices soared in the first place when, and surely partly as the result of, "Zionists and their allies in Congress authored, implemented and enforced sanctions against Iran". This blocked the worlds biggest oil and gas company from doing business there. Again, "Israeli war exercises and public declarations threatening a massive air assault on Iran" threatened to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz shipping and sent petroleum prices spiking to world records. Israel's perception of 'existential threat' from Iran's nuclear program causing Americans pain at the pump. uh ... Few things more highly disapprobative and 'enemy'- sounding than that. Cut. Paste: Democrats blocking Bush's off shore drilling which brought partial remedy. Result: DECEPT (Wilkes-Barre).
II.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/DN-mccain_24pol.ART.State.Edition1.4da3ba2.html
McCain says surge began before Bush's order for troop increases
06:49 AM CDT on Thursday, July 24, 2008
The Associated Press
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Republican John McCain pushed back Wednesday against Democratic criticism that he misstated when the troop buildup ordered by President Bush began, saying elements were put in place before Mr. Bush announced the strategy in early 2007.
He told reporters during an unscheduled stop in a supermarket that what the Bush administration calls "the surge" was actually "made up of a number of components," some of which began before the president's order for more troops.
At issue are Mr. McCain's comments in a Tuesday interview with CBS. The Arizona senator disputed Democrat Barack Obama's contention that a Sunni revolt against al-Qaeda combined with the dispatch of thousands more U.S. combat troops to Iraq to improve security there. Mr. McCain called that a "false depiction."
*****
This was an altogether odd, even bizzare campaign tidbit. But as an event in TokenSpace, a DECEPT, it bespoke volumes.
First of all, it was an unscheduled stop in Bethlehem. That had to have been arranged because of its symbolic resonance. Barack Obama had arrived in Israel from Jordan the day before with pictures of him in a Yarmulka praying at the wailing wall in Old Jerusalem, calling Israel itself a "miracle." The PR impact of this message was enormous. Moderates around all sides on the oceans were greatly empowered.
As if it had been anticipated, McCain materializes, speaking from inside a grocery store, in front of the cheese section, just down the verbal road to Christ's birthplace itself: Bethlehem (Pa.). The impact of this, on me, was jaw dropping. So it was on Keith Olberman who wondered aloud whether the old guy would make it much longer out there on the hustings.
The oddity only begins with this mythic synthronicity, no doubt arranged so as to communicate according to the tokens rather than the texts. No advance notice was given that he was coming, only one reporter reading a scripted question about his misremembering the time- line of the so-called Surge and the Anbar Province, 'awakening' in Iraq. This was, and remains, a virulent issue between the two sides since Obama had voted against it and McCain for it in early '07, and the ongoing premiss of all who oppose troop withdrawal -- as mandated by the '06 vote -- is that it was a "success", and it's being so justifies having reversed the will of the people and contradicted democracy.
Speaking extemporaneously, but from pre-scripted
talking points, he explained that the term "surge", used throughout the MSM, is military shorthand for "counter insurgency" operations, such as begun in Anbar against Al Queda and the Sunni insurgents. It is an issue especially sensitive to him, because he has an inside line on how things have gone. In the first place, he had spoken personally with Colonel MacFarlane and learned that the 'Awakening' in which some Suuni tribal leaders switched sides against al Queda, the beginning of the surge had begun then, in December '06. Secondly, when the time came to support the increased troop levels with funding, he had had to buck some powerful members of his own party who wanted to block the plan. He stood out as one of Bush's most vocal backers.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250214,00.html
"WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans tried to rally support Monday against a non-binding resolution that if passed would amount to a no-confidence vote on President Bush's Iraq 'surge' plan.
The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain, slammed the resolution and its supporters as wrong and intellectually dishonest.
"I hope they keep in mind that this is fundamentally a vote of no confidence in the people that we are sending on this mission in harm's way. We are telling them, 'we support you but we believe your mission will fail. We don't believe what you're doing,' " McCain said.
*****
This is, in fact, the consistent position. He's got that to hold over the head of the half hearted. Never mind that NOONE defends the mission, as originally drawn, and are hard put to define it, now, in any terms that were not rejected by the 'o6 vote to get out. Now that the surge has proven successful, he can wag his finger, raise his voice, and call them would-have-been losers. So long as the Iraq war issue is framed in terms of Surge Success, he has an invuncuble argument. If It wins, he wins; twice; and they lose.
This is the ambiguous information stage of the DECEPT. Is the surge a success? Did it "work"? Cite evidences, please.
If you say "yes", you will the Hallelulah chorus, led by the spectrum of NY Times Jews from David Brooks to Tom Friedman. Brooks even finds something redemptive for Bush in it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/opinion/24brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
BROOKS
The Bush Paradox
Let’s go back and consider how the world looked in the winter of 2006-2007. Iraq was in free fall, with horrific massacres and ethnic cleansing that sent a steady stream of bad news across the world media. The American public delivered a stunning electoral judgment against the Iraq war, the Republican Party and President Bush
Expert and elite opinion swung behind the Baker-Hamilton report, which called for handing more of the problems off to the Iraqi military and wooing Iran and Syria. Republicans on Capitol Hill were quietly contemptuous of the president while Democrats were loudly so.
In these circumstances, it’s amazing that George Bush decided on the surge. And looking back, one thing is clear: Every personal trait that led Bush to make a hash of the first years of the war led him to make a successful decision when it came to this crucial call."
*******
FRIEDMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/opinion/23friedman.html
John McCain needs to wake up and smell the Arabic coffee
I know this is not an easy time for him. When you have been beaten up for four years because of your support for the Iraq war, and then you get something big right — your support for the surge — you want to be able to savor that for a while. You want to make your rightness on that issue the issue of this election.
McCain was right about the surge. It has helped to stabilize Iraq and create a better chance there for political reconciliation. But Iraq has always been a story full of surprises. And one of the most important political surprises is how quickly the surge has made Iraq safe for Barack Obama’s foreign policy — and for the election policy of the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
****
Such is the Received Opinion. Across the board. So strong it is, in fact, that John McCain is on Sat., 26 am TV having surged, himself.
"While Obama was wooing and wowing 'em overseas, McCain has risen in the polls. He may be popular over there, but back home is where he will have to win the votes, and the polls show he hasn't closed the deal." It's as if First, there was 911 (followed up by the false flag anthrax poisoning episode), then Second, there was The Surge of '07. Now the Republican presidential campaign has gone back, as is their custom, to insert a slight technical adjustment. It is part of what you say to yourself -- "the surge is in there" -- when you see and think of the fine work our counter insurgent soldiers do. Having The Military Man, McCain, sock puppet this into the historical narrative is the Snake-Brain/Head-Brain DECEPT link. The MSM will now be obliged to stop!, rethink; tone down the Viagra -Surge jokes; ..and examine whether or not they, themselves, honest hardworking Jane's and Joes as they are, and put in the unfortunate positions of bringing forth a public grammar, didn't really secretly want to see troops dying for nothing and America defeated, like liberals do. The Fox News TV spot showing The Man looming large, head on, square jawed, repeating again the line that the Surge's success, "which no reasonable observer now denies" validates his judgment establishes that this IS the line the Republicans will run on. Their term of bottom line nitty gritty patriotic approbation.
McCain's insertion of its token into the stream of discourse, embedded in a longer term of military use, installed a processing loop in the space of shared communication wherever the subject is later touched on. This is psychosemiotic revisionism, a key elementin group mind control (more below).
A look back at the history of the Surge's use 'wires around' the loop. When it was first trotted out in January and February of '07 as the One Word Reversal of the sense of the '06 election, launching one of the broadest and most extensive political advertising campaigns of all time to back a war strategy that had been demonstrably rejected by official democratic vote, no one could take it seriously, at first, except the ones inside who faced choices. It didn't take a PR expert to see that the term 'worked', psychosemiotically, through what can be called 'the tittilation factor' -- recently confirmed as one of America's psychological plagues by the Pope, btw.
The name connotes a laundry detergent, constipation relief, erectile disfunction remedy, surfer's ocean tide -- and, if you go with it, "support the surge?", you "support the troops." Who is going to vote against a Troop Surge? It just doesn't sound right.
--And THAT is the name of the right wing political reversal game: use inserted terminology for your mental processes to loop through that will bring up a latent self-contradiction, so that you will be contradicting something in yourself if you deny THEIR predications. If you are one of those who would have "voted against the surge", you are one of the sillies who would deny themselves little indulgences and eschew glory on the battlefield, in addition to.dragging down troop support. You are no doubt a hypocrite who secretly makes love (brown paper bag, internet porn style), not War, unwilling to even defend your right to enjoy all that concupiscence. John McCain leads the "At least let's be honest" pack. Who never are; its just the final (Reversal Squared) way of continuing the dishonesty.
CRIMINALITY IN SIGN-USE
McCain's stop in Bethlehem (Pa) amounted to psychosemiotic revisionism. An effective buzz word, with bathroom associations, is first introduced as a principle designator in a publicity campaign designed to reverse a deep, wide, profound group sentiment, (A brain 2 content shared by individuals: war revulsion.) Next, this word, recalled from that context of use as a designator, still carrying its blinky and confused political associations, but given a refined, quasi-technical use by one authorized to speak as a cohort of such things (brain 1), is applied to a situation calling for decision and action ('closing the deal') (brain 3).
This is the situation that 'we', the public, are left with. In order to decide and act, by voting, we are required to use the language of the campaign,This has now been corrupted by specially designed designators, disambiguated by approbations. What is meant is not fixed, but 'waggles' in the consciousness where the political alignments committed to one way or another pervades the processes. Put bluntly: the language has become politicized, so that even to communicate in the election discourse is subjects oneself to psychic manipulation and possible sanction. Since all such means of deception contradict the very premise of democracy as free vote by informed people, this re-looping of "The Surge" through brain 1 (quasi technical thought-meaning), over* memory content of brain 2 (political approbative polarity), in the service of brain 3 (with the decision to attack Iran hanging in the balance, to agree 'the surge is a success' is to go with the flow of snake brain satanism.
******
The Surge is Jewish Freedom's Watch is Orwellian
Ari Fleisher Freedom's Watch/ AEI coterie
A. Back in '07
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/politics/30watch.html?hp
Big Coffers and a Rising Voice Lift a New Conservative Group
Freedom’s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former senior White House officials, made an audacious debut in late August when it began a $15 million advertising campaign designed to maintain Congressional support for President Bush’s troop increase in Iraq.
Founded this summer by a dozen wealthy conservatives, the nonprofit group is set apart from most advocacy groups by the immense wealth of its core group of benefactors, its intention to far outspend its rivals and its ambition to pursue a wide-ranging agenda. Its next target: Iran policy.
Next month, Freedom’s Watch will sponsor a private forum of 20 experts on radical Islam that is expected to make the case that Iran poses a direct threat to the security of the United States, according to several benefactors of the group..
B. Surge Protectors - later
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_10_08/article1.html
Late this summer, just as American political armies were squaring off over the next, and likely last, act of President Bush’s Iraq War policy, a new pro-war group called Freedom’s Watch announced a $15-million ad buy over several months in key states. The first ads featured soldiers who had been maimed in Iraq but stood by the cause of a global war on terror. Political observers said they were targeted at the districts of Republican congressmen who were going wobbly on the war....
The Jewish press offered a different take. “Pro-Surge Group Is Almost All Jewish,” reported the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the lead wire service for Jewish news. Four out of five members of the Freedom’s Watch board are Jews, and half of its donors are Jewish. The JTA quoted one of its directors, Matthew Brooks, saying this was strictly a “coincidence.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSWzoGGmpqQ
Bring Them Home, don't be fooled again
C. Now '08 => McCain
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2942.shtml
Freedom's Watch may spend up to $250 million in 2008 election
By Bill Berkowitz
Online Journal Guest Writer
Feb 12, 2008, 00:14
President Bush has been to Las Vegas nine times since he was first inaugurated, but last Wednesday was the first time he ever stayed overnight in Sin City. He and his aides (and the traveling press corps) did so in luxury, staying at the Venetian, the palatial casino resort run by Sheldon Adelson, the chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp. and a big force in GOP and philanthropic circles. (He is part of the money behind Freedom's Watch, the conservative foreign policy group formed as a kind of counterpoint to liberal groups like MoveOn.org.) Adelson and his wife, Miriam, were in the loading dock at the Venetian Thursday to greet Bush and jumped into his limousine to ride with him to his speech sponsored by a conservative think tank.
After the speech, Adelson -- who was at the White House in November for the official dinner for French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- hosted Bush at a Nevada GOP fundraiser at his home in the Tournament Hills gated community. A Nevada GOP official would not provide figures for the total take. -- Michael Abramowitz, in the Washington Post, February 4, 2008.
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