It's blog laboratory experimentation time. I've decided that it's time to see if the blogosphere has the power to create a new meme that filters it's way into the mainstream media.
Because people are basically sheep, and seem to be incapable of independent though (let alone research an issue) I've decided to make stuff up about politicians and see if I can make it stick. This is a proven strategy (see the "Bush lied" crowds antics).
Today's NewThink Conventional Wisdom (NCW) nugget: Howard Dean is a socialist.
Repeat over and over until it becomes conventional wisdom. Howard Dean should always be referred to as a socialist, and examples of his socialist plans should be noted. If you can't find a position of his that is strictly socialist, feel free to invent one for him. Other sites are strongly encouraged to extend and expand the mythology around this new bit of conventional wisdom. I promise to be a little more inventive in my next NCW nugget.
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It's a little known fact th... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Kevin McGehee | September 9, 2003 7:49 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's a little known fact that Howard Dean favors a constitutional amendment guaranteeing to everyone the right to the fruits of everyone else's labor.
I know it's true 'cause I seen it on the Internet.
1. Posted by Kevin McGehee | September 9, 2003 7:49 AM |
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Posted on September 9, 2003 07:49
2. Posted by coffee achiever | September 9, 2003 6:16 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wow, you really went out on a limb with that nugget. What next? Calling Arnold Schwarzenegger is a misogynist? Announcing that Al Sharpton is a racist? How about something a little less TRUE next time?
Dean's Socialist Health Care Plan
2. Posted by coffee achiever | September 9, 2003 6:16 PM |
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Posted on September 9, 2003 18:16
3. Posted by Kevin McGehee | September 9, 2003 8:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Guess I didn't get the joke until Coffee explained it to me.
3. Posted by Kevin McGehee | September 9, 2003 8:24 PM |
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Posted on September 9, 2003 20:24
4. Posted by mark | September 10, 2003 9:32 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
oh please for god's sake.
4. Posted by mark | September 10, 2003 9:32 AM |
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Posted on September 10, 2003 09:32
5. Posted by Fritz | September 10, 2003 4:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
As a blogger who writes satire (stuff that is almost 100% made up), I am amazed when I run across something I wrote restated as fact. It has happened on more than one occassion!
Sadly, there are people out there who actually believe that Michael Moore made school kids cry while delivering a speech at Eugene V. Debs Elementary School in Detroit (there is NO such school -- I made it up).
One lady wrote in my comments "Too bad you all can’t handle the truth. I’m very proud that Eugene V. Debs Elementary allowed somebody who is not afraid of our government to try to open the eyes of our children."
I thought that more people would know who Debs was -- nope.
5. Posted by Fritz | September 10, 2003 4:33 PM |
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Posted on September 10, 2003 16:33
6. Posted by Mitch H. | September 11, 2003 6:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What, you're assuming that no urban-left administration of the late 60s or early 70s was capable of naming an elementary school after a prominent American Socialist? It wouldn't make me blink.
6. Posted by Mitch H. | September 11, 2003 6:52 PM |
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Posted on September 11, 2003 18:52