tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post6358651923121899450..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: A Counter-Intuitive ActionFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-66758227112163544672019-12-29T15:16:10.493-05:002019-12-29T15:16:10.493-05:00This is just taking Fred Silverman's Least Obj...This is just taking Fred Silverman's <b>Least Objectionable Program Rule</b>, and applying it to the culture, downstream from which is found politics, rather than limiting its application solely to TV programs which succeed mainly by sucking a little less than the competition.<br /><br />Now we have an entire political system based on the same concept.<br /><br />Trump wasn't Shrillary, nor anything like as bad as.<br />Obozo wasn't McCrazy, nor anything like as bad as.<br />Dubbya wasn't the Gorebacle.<br />Your congressweasel isn't quit actually Gilligan (except in the NY 14th District).<br /><i>Ad infinitum</i><br /><br />This is how we keep electing the lesser of two evils endlessly, and pricing Actually Good completely out of the entire equation.<br /><br />It's true all over the place:<br />We used to go to the moon; now we're happy if the rocket doesn't explode during the boost phase.<br />We used to build F-15s; now we build F-35s.<br />We used to have sub captains that could closely tail Soviet submarines under wartime conditions, 24/7; now we're happy if the female officerettes don't collide their man o' war with ponderous container freighters moving at the speed of fat people on mobility scooters at WalMart.<br /><br />It's culture-wide.<br /><br />Instead of Planned Obsolescence, now we have been gifted with Planned Mediocrity.<br />Which makes actual Idiocracy just a small jump from platform to train.<br /><br />QEDAesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-58058282278706215732019-12-29T08:56:34.269-05:002019-12-29T08:56:34.269-05:00Exactly right. At least some part of the Deplorabl...Exactly right. At least some part of the Deplorable ad budget has to be geared to tapping into those emotional areas of the brain. Reagan did it with the Bear commercial. It enabled those watching it to have a strong visual carryaway, and begin framing the debate differently. It didn't hammer people over the head - something too many Dem commercials do.<br /><br />They will have their ad framework, we will have ours. Which one will be most effective will be shown in November.Linda Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15024201252345608291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-53648363860574521702019-12-28T11:02:45.081-05:002019-12-28T11:02:45.081-05:00Been that way forever.Been that way forever.mobiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10582872757769683429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-81438847959859772402019-12-28T09:53:30.380-05:002019-12-28T09:53:30.380-05:00Precisely how "Pallywood" works so well ...Precisely how "Pallywood" works so well re Israel.<br /><br />I wish I had the video link but...<br /><br />There was a video that I used back in the days when I was teaching about the misuse of data - i.e., ANYONE making a presentation to you has an agenda, and that you can be lied to and not realize it. Specifically, this video had a picture filming out through his barred window to see a young boy bowled over by someone soldiers running past. They're not nice to him. Of course, it's presented as "Eeeeeeeevil Zionist soldiers abuse small boy".<br /><br />I'd ask my students about their reactions and, universally, they were horrified at how that kid was abused. OK. I play it again... except this time I count from the start of the video where nothing happens... 1... 2... 3... 4... 5... 6... 7... 8... action begins. For eight seconds this man was filming an empty alley.<br /><br />You could see the dawning. "It was a set up"! said one student (ironically that student was one of the inmates I was teaching in a local jail).<br /><br />The Left has learned that they can use emotion to get around reason. But that leaves us an opening too - if we can get people emotionally roiled by their grasping they've been lied to, THEN hit them with facts.NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.com