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Re: Dubya's propaganda machine at work again
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Date: 
Tue, 18 Nov 2003 20:04:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   Interesting choice of words.

Coincidence. No?

Probably, but it’s good for a punchline. Much has already (and not unreasonably) been made of the rhetorical similarity between Dubya’s “with-us-or-against-us” drum-beating and the propaganda of 1930’s German fascism. If Dubya ever mentions a “Final Solution” for dealing with terrorism, then we’ll have to reopen this discussion...


  
   And, in other news. This, from the city that lived through The Blitz!

The man is obviously an idiot.

Well, he’s got a talent for hyperbole, I’ll grant you. But if he were a US Conservative pundit or political figure railing against a Democrat, his diatribe would have been so commonplace as to be unnewsworthy.

Dave!



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(...) Coincidence. No? (...) The man is obviously an idiot. JOHN (21 years ago, 18-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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