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WillStG wrote:
steve WillStG wrote: This really isn't about left vs. right. It about whether using a series of lies, distortions and fabrications as part of a poltical campaign is ok or not. Whether or not its ok in your book, its been SOP since the dawn of humanity and its not about to change anytime soon At the politic fringes perhaps, but party leadership has always tried to distance itself from the Moore variety of propaganda, which is plainly dishonest. Oh please... this shows no understanding of past political propoganda. Dirty political tricks through the ages: 1844 - One involved a newspaper story put out by the boss of the Whigs, Thurlow Weed, about a traveler named Roorback who on a visit to the South supposedly came across some of Democrat James Polk's slaves cruelly branded with Polk's initials (a president could own slaves but he couldn't brand them like cattle97 that was considered inhumane). Another involved an attempt by the Whigs to demoralize leading Democrats; to persuade the Democrats that the campaign was going badly the Whigs sent out a letter to that effect supposedly written by some high party muckety-muck. Still another involved the printing up of phony ballots; the ballots mixed up the names of Democratic and Whig electors, which was intended to confuse voters. 1880 - the editor of the Truth, a New York scandal sheet, published a letter James Garfield had supposedly written to H. L. Morey, the head of the Employers Union of Lynn, Massachusetts, endorsing the right of a corporation to hire the cheapest labor available, including Chinese labor. Garfield had not written the letter. It was a forgery. and on and on.... -- Aaron Borgman HE Design Engineer JF4-4-C5 phone: 503-712-3212 Disclaimer: All above opinions are mine... not Intel's |
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