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  Posted By: drewand @ 08/24/2009 3:47:06 PM

  Yes sir Lee, you conservatives have done a bang up job running this country over the last eight years. You nearly ran us into the ground. I don't know why you think that having someone as president with the credentials Obama has is a bad thing. If McCain and Palin won the election we'd all be standing in bread lines and the unemployment rate would probably be 30%. McCain would have Sarah doing charity work and working with women's groups because obviously she could not be trusted with vital issues. Obama is actually seeking bipartisan support. Bush sent the Democrats to the corner with a box of crayons. You can talk about elitism all you want my friend but at least democrats aren't going against the constitution or the Geneva convention to have their way. The only really dangerous political group in this country are the elitist conservatives and you can take that to the bank.

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  Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 07/07/2009 4:08:39 PM

  The non-partisan PEW poll displays some rather odd results that run against the grain of How Liberal America Views Sarah Palin.
  
  In it it finds that while
  
  44% of Americans are ''strongly'' in disapproval with Palin,
  
  48% of Americans ''strongly'' support her.
  
  The ''why?'' can be observed in a recent New York Times article by Ross Douthat. In it, he explains that the ''anti-Palins'' are members of meritocracy ,complete with Ivy League colleges, affirmative action, and race-gender grievance, coupled with a firm belief akin to a secular Godhead, that they and only they can fix the worlds problems. The ''lesser masses'' are too stupid to figure this out,and must be guided by urbanite brainiacs who Know Better. [ you can view the results of this arrogance in NEWSWEAKS article on the late Robert Strange McNamera elsewhere on these pages].
  Not for nothing does GALLUPS brand new poll released yesterday find that more Americans are drifting ''Right''. This is due to the fact that these accurately view ''elites''[ including media] as being condescending snobs ,attitudes vindicated by their twin treatments of Palin,and Obama. Palin,and Biden, who is demonstrably the more ignorant of the two, caught red-handed meddling in Israels affairs regarding Iran to the point that he has now been muzzled by Obama. Into the mix, is the liberals religious belief in global warming [ a far from settled issue as over 700 world scientists recently admitted],healthcare, and economic socialism, all of which appear to the ''unlearned masses'' to be vehicles designed to hinder their own progress. Thus America, as divined by the mere presence of Palin pits Ivy League ''elites'' against the Rest Of Us, who BBQ, own guns, watch NASCAR, perform double-shifts and actually work for a living as opposed to grubbing on a grant or government or Tinseltown dole. The rise of unemployment will only harden these divisions.

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  Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 07/07/2009 3:48:25 PM

  OMAAR, who has neatly projected Le Bons crowd theory onto the rest of us, is deserving of this repeat.
  
  The idea of what we see with with Palin is nothing new. It forms itself into that which was recognized with the beginnings of psychoanalysis in the 1890s. Freud would become the solid leader of such theories in the 20th Century, but was not the originator of what the Frenchman Gustav Le Bon called the Herd or ''Crowd Theory''. Here, ''the mentality of men in crowds [ even ideologically] is unlike that which they possess when isolated''. Totemic symbolism as expressed by media and the nation-state which feeds into ''collective thought'' is manifested by the ''generation of illusions which have the force of truth''.[ The Wasilla Library ''book-bannings'', the refusal of these so-called ''rape kits'' to women while a mayor, the ''reduction'' of aid to the mentally challenged, Trigs baby 'as her own'', and the like which permeated the highest levels of what constitutes ''elite''media and commentary]. The prelude to destruction is not merely advanced by the targeted individual or policy. It is fed by an opposition media which uses propaganda and ridicule in a national format.[ranging from ''serious'' [yet truthfully flawed] commentary or even ''hard'' news , to comedic presentation, in order to produce a feared ''other'' the precise totemic origin of Le Bons ''herd/crowd'' theory].
  Freud, writing in 1913 and 1921 views the injection of such ''elite''sources as vital to the ''coercive character of group formation''. As opposed to capturing the imagination only of the ''lower classes'', it succeeds in grabbing and holding the attention, while working its ''mystic'' influences, upon the most ''intelligent''among us [or, curmudgeon Sam Harris' ''elites'', which he defends elsewhere here on NEWSWEAK, using these as a stick with which to beat Palin,forgetting that he himself has fallen neatly into Le Bon and Freuds trap].
  Such skills are not relegated to the alleged ''progressive'' [ who is just as trapped, as we saw,as the ''lower'' [or less ''intelligent'' class], alone. It was skillfully mastered by the rightist Achesons, Dulles' Nixons and McCarthys during the ''Red Scares'' of the 1950s and used media in order to further fear of ''the other''. The mastery of propaganda, is not writ large upon wartime posters [''Save Your Scrap To Bomb A Jap''] but dwells inside the pages and the newsrooms of the competing ideologies now present in America today.
  
  ''The propaganda must be presented in popular form,and it must fix its level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. It awakens imagination by appeal, and the arrest of attention. It must not investigate truth objectively and expresses itself ,as far as possible,in stereotyped formulas''
  
  Saul Alinsky?
  
  Nope.
  
  Adolf Hitler. MEIN KAMPH [My Struggle] 1924.