Witch hunt
Today it is Anita Dunn. Yesterday's witch hunt is forgotten, and tomorrow, while some of us are still trying to defend the right to express ideas unapologetically, there will be an new smear campaign, new clips of quotes out of context, the Daily Bogyman.
The problem is, of course, is that it is far more efficient to manufacture lies, innuendo, and hyped up outrage than to defeat it. It's a tactic used by lawyers, to keep slinging fast and furious; keep up the offence, and at some point the defense will fold under the sheer weight of it's own bulk.
Now misinformation has become the primary tool in American right wing politics. Like the myth of bad Chinese food, misinformation tirelessly plops out of the tube with a resounding splat, each story as ludicrous as the previous, but faithfully echoed down the line, references running in circles, and the fools are dazzled and amazed each and every time.
Lies, repeated often and loudly, are powerful tools of manipulation.
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The only myth I've heard about Chinese food is that you're hungry again an hour later? What's so bad about that? That means the food was good and you want more!
Oh, sorry.
The story is that there is a network of tubes originating from a single factory, and the tubes go to all of those unimagitive, bland Chinese food places where the workers simply deposit your order directly from the tube onto your plate.
That's why bad Chinese food tastes exactly the same everywhere you go.
Oh, sorry.
The story is that there is a network of tubes originating from a single factory, and the tubes go to all of those unimagitive, bland Chinese food places where the workers simply deposit your order directly from the tube onto your plate.
That's why bad Chinese food tastes exactly the same everywhere you go.
Or, it's because they've been making it for 3000 years, and the taste has had time to standardize.
And it's made with cats. Duh.
Are you trying to say cats taste bad?
I'm saying that cats make you hungry again and they all taste the same.