Here's a good example of political "spin doctoring."
In this first sound byte, president Bush stuck his foot firmly in his mouth.
Maybe his earbud prompting system failed or he simply forgot his lines.
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Take two:
Now our president restates the first thought.
Instead of saying, "..it will send a terrible signal," he now completes the sound byte by reciting the whole message, "I think it sends a terrible signal to friends around the world..." that the Dubai company that has proven to be an ally is snubbed this way.
And he STILL partly flubbed his lines.
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It seems petty and silly - and it is, but a single flubbed sound byte can cause the flubber to lose many "approval points."
Perception is reality.
Here's something I just dug out of my News Video archives. It's three days old, from 2/23/06.
US Congressman Steve Rothman, Democrat, New Jersey, blurted out something he's probably sorry for now. But, hey, it was three whole days ago, nobody is mentioning it in the Media anymore, so we will all quickly forget about it.
Most people didn't hear about it at all.
Congressman Rothman very defensively released verbal diarrhea about America being "blamed" for the bombing of the holy golden shrine in Iraq.
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DP World, the Dubai port managing company that so many people are up in arms about is much ado about nothing.
It distracts us from the real issues, like the failing economy and the ruinous war we were dragged into with lies about WMD and "terrorism."
Ford Motors recently laid off TWENTY FIVE PERCENT of it's American work force.
Ford is not the only company that carried out massive layoffs.
Merck Pharmaceuticals and Chrysler are among the many others who have fired thousands of American workers and left them with nothing - no pensions, no health coverge, no way to pay their rent or mortgages.
American workers are becoming destitute and losing their homes.
Thousands of Americans are losing everything. They don't CARE about "winning the war in Iraq" when their furniture is sitting out on the sidewalk.
What about THAT?
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