Right-Wing Rhetoric

A guest letter originally published in The Daily Telegram, Wednesday, August 06, 2008

First, my definitions:

Neoconservative (neocon): Not your grand daddy’s style of fiscal conservatism. Neocons are conservative only when it comes to the poor/working poor, committed only to money and power (mutually inclusive), without concern for the Constitution or the canons of human decency. They’ll expend any amount of capital and lives to enhance their economic power.

Corporatist: Advocate of Corporatism, wherein the government is run by and for the corporations. First cousin to “fascism,” as defined by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who said (paraphrasing) that Fascism occurs when government and business become one in the same.

Their application:

The Goebbels-Rove propaganda network disseminates half-truths, innuendoes and falsehoods from the neoconservative-corporatist wing of the Republican party, which is choking the life out of our country. It’s as if Karl Rove studied Joseph Goebbels’ tactics (Hitler’s propaganda minister) and followed them closely. One of Goebbels’ first moves: control the media. Now, we have Rupert Murdoch and others of his ilk, with a right-wing monopoly on most of the news, disseminating neocon-corporatist propaganda can be controlled by telling them they’re in danger and keeping them in constant fear, then, denouncing any dissenters as unpatriotic and treasonous. Sound familiar?

Many attacks on Obama smack of “talking points,” from the Goebbels-Rove propaganda machine, through their right-wing media outlets.

Obama didn’t get to visit the troops in Germany because the Defense Department said it would be inappropriate as part of a campaign stop. Obama honored this. The neocons would have griped either way.

Flip-flops? McCain claimed to be a maverick Republican. In 2000, surrogates (swift-boaters of their day) pulverized John McCain in the South Carolina primary by claiming, among other lies, that McCain fathered an illegitimate Black child. McCain knows how vicious neocon-corporatists are and I believe he decided to capitulate. So, he reversed much of what he said he was for or against, including permanent tax cuts for Bush’s filthy-rich oil buddies and, worst of all, sanctioning torture as a policy that violates the Geneva Convention. McCain’s flip-flops make John Kerry look as faithful as Horton hatching an egg. By dangling the White House in front of him, the same neocons who destroyed him in 2000 can lead McCain anywhere.

McCain is a defeated (by the neocons) old man, desperate to catch one last ride on the merry-go-round, before the tents fold up and the carnival of life closes, willing to become the neoconservative-corporatists’ next puppet … just so his portrait will hang in the White House, next to that of George W. Bush.

Obama’s policies couldn’t be any worse than the neoconservative-corporatists’ were under Bush and would be under McCain.

— Dale R. Botten,
Lake Nebagamon

Tags: Karl Rove Can Kiss My Ass

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