Okay, maybe not so much.
When it comes to contemporary politics and particularly election shenanigans, it's impossible to know who to believe or where the truth lies.
Still, it's a relief to read that perhaps our election system isn't completely rotten.
I'm slightly more comfortable with the idea of a foolish electorate.
I've earned a living for a long time writing business propaganda, so it was easy for me to smell Bobby Kennedy Junior's linguistic trickery and convenient data-skewing in the first few paragraphs of that Rolling Stone piece. I giggled throughout.
ReplyDeleteBut as a spin doctor, I have to admit (and I suppose this is indicative of my own moral bankruptcy) that I am secretly and perpetually awed by the power of words to do whatever we want them to do. It's all in the way they get strung together. Much mightier than the sword, sometimes.
P.S. You are a terrific writer, Schuyler's Dad, no matter whether you are delighting people or infuriating them. So keep stringin' them words together, yo.
The electorate is fairly foolish. More important, the Republican funds are virtually unlimited. Put those together and you get what we got.
ReplyDeleteI think what's key for me, anyway, is that even when you strip away Kennedy's convenient interpretations of facts, you still have a frighteningly shady picture of what happened in Ohio in 2004 *cough*Ken Blackwell*cough*.
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