Friday, June 20, 2014


Dateline: August 1, 2011. The headlines read: “Washington to vote on historic debt deal,” * and “…announced historic agreement….”** just to quote a few. 

Yeah, right; who writes Obama's press releases? The former employees of Pravda?

When I was younger, the Soviet Union was the other superpower in the world. Whenever its propaganda arm, Pravda, gave commentary on something tragic occurring in the Western world, they would blame it on “right wing extremists,” “Western Imperialism, “the ideology of greed that is capitalism” and so on. Whenever a dissident came up missing or was executed, it was always “for crimes against the State.” And the general human condition was blamed on the “continual class struggle” and blahblahblahblahblah.

Soviet propaganda was laughably predictable. So much so that anyone in the world familiar with the template phrases could’ve written the official Soviet opinion on anything that had happened or could possibly happen in the world.

Have you noticed the same templating going on in America today? Have you noticed that everything Barak Obama always calls any issue he wants to focus on a “crisis?” And have you noticed that his leftwing lackeys in the press also quickly label as “historic” anything that he can even remotely claim as an accomplishment? And have you noticed the predictable buzzwords “tea party members,” “tea baggers,” “right wing’ers,” “neo-cons” being parroted continually by his puppets?

Seems to me the Obama propaganda machine, like that of the former Soviet Union before him, is laughably predictable.



*Yahoo News headline for Reuters article by Andy Sullivan and Laura MacInnis, Lawmakers to vote on last-minute debt deal, taken from http://news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-close-deal-avoid-default-004006145.html, August 1, 2011


**Espo, David Associated Press, Obama, Congressional leaders announce deal on debt, taken from http://www.kansas.com/2011/07/31/1956459/obama-says-he-congress-leaders.html, August 1, 2011.



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