The “Coming Soon” Tactic
Posted by TFG on November 3rd, 2007
FunctionalAmbivalent: Coming Soon To a Right-Wing Crackpot Rumor Mill Near You
This is going to take the Republican Party by storm, just you watch. I’ve never seen a rumor that is more perfectly crafted to appeal to the insanity of the far right.
Don’t bother clicking - I just wanted it sourced for my own purposes.
No, what happens is the ostensibly reasonable Progressive takes something out of a pr0n gossip columnist’s blog that’s chock to the top with unsourced BS, talks it up with his ostensibly reasonable buddies, and then blames The Right for being The Problem with Politics Today. This happens all the time.
In other words, “When you hear this, you can blame The Right. See, I told you right here.” Meanwhile, every other rational being in America has ignored pr0n gossip columns again, as they have for a very long time.
What’s the point of a pr0n gossip columnist anyway? Aren’t they already banging each other, daily, for cash, on DVDs that you can buy? What possible ‘gossip’ could there be to collate? I guess if A refused to bang B, maybe?
Who knew there was a pr0n gossip columnist position available? Well, I did, for one. Ford is one of those LA writer people that Welch and Layne know, so I used to get Ford tidbits from their blogs back when they blogged with typewriters connected to dot-matrix printer emulators attached to an SNA controller.
REBUTTAL UPDATE: From Tom, complete with psychoanalysis. Upblog, there’s bacon, too.



