Dan Bartlett loves him some wingnut blogs
The fundamental change in the way people consume the news had to change the way we executed a communications strategy at the White House.
Q. How much attention did you pay to the programs on cable?
I never worried about a certain cable show. What I was looking for were trends that were shaping the narrative and the conventional wisdom and whether we had to be in front of or behind those things.
Q. What about the blogs?
We had to set up a whole new apparatus to deal with the challenges they pose. Are they real journalists? The Washington Post, for example, has journalists who are now bloggers. Do you treat them as bloggers? Do they get credentials?
Q. Let's think of it as a practical matter. If one of those journalists-turned-bloggers, Chris Cillizza, e-mails you to say he needs an interview, and at the same time one of the Post's print reporters-say, Dan Balz-e-mails you and says he needs an interview, and you can do only one . . .
Balz.
Q. Because the print edition of the Post has more of an impact?
Because Balz is on multiple platforms. He's booked more easily on television. He's read by more people. He influences people a bit more. Now, the question might not be as much Chris versus Dan as maybe, "Is it Dan Balz or one of the guys at [the conservative blog] Power Line?"
Q. Yeah, or what if [conservative blogger] Hugh Hewitt called?
That's when you start going, "Hmm . . ." Because they do reach people who are influential.
Q. Well, they reach the president's base.
That's what I mean by influential. I mean, talk about a direct IV into the vein of your support. It's a very efficient way to communicate. They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we've cultivated and have really tried to put quite a bit of focus on.
Uh huh. That's what I thought.
Sweet Zombie Jesus, a rare moment of candor emanating from inside the Bubble. What's next? An admission that Dear Leader's been drinking again? Since 2003?
they will certainly try....but they'll never get it..Truth....it's beyond there grasp.
reichwingnut neocon bullshit. tell lies to your pundits so they in turn will lie to the public.
no wonder the gop is SO FUCKED UP. they don't know the truth from the shit in their butts.
Ah, yes, regurgitating bile, acid, phlegm and venom.
Catapulting Shrub's lies and propaganda, as it were. Projectile vomiting.
How do these lying, prevaricating cretins live with themselves?
This is, of course, reflected in his statement, "certain cable shows".
Control of the public perception has always been job #1 for the White House. Consider the Administrative branch as a manager of the government branch of corporate america, with the president elected as the primary spokesman for the fortune 500.
That’s what I mean by influential. I mean, talk about a direct IV into the vein of your support. It’s a very efficient way to communicate. They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them
Holy Sh*t-it sounds like hes talking about Crooks and Liars.
"Catapulting the propaganda" nothing new or surprising about that with this criminal administration.
Zoop @ 6:
1. Administration doublespeak ---> Right wing blogs
2. Stuff from all over the internet and TV media ----> C&L
How can you not see the difference? In 1 we see clear motive from the administration to shore up support by having someone else say their words for them. The Right Wing blogs use the words the administration prepares for them. In 2 we see John Amato and his blogger team grabbing media from everywhere to produce a left themed video blog.
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
Adolf Hitler
Zoop @ 6:
This is a rough thread for trolls - even if you did check in to get your talking points beforehand. Try the earlier thread on Jeffrey Ray Nielsen; it demonstrates the Republican capacity for independent action even while parroting the message of the day.
authoritarian cultism always on the march part 2853515
You must be confused, Zoop. Bartlett and his ilk are the crooks and liars. We at this site (and at other credible blogs) are the truth-seekers (fallible, yes, but at least we know how to admit when we're wrong and to apologize, something reich-wingers are incapable of).
There's no comparison.
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Adolf Hitler
This story on Crooks & Liars has over 2000 Diggs. Why isn't it at the top of the Digg stories listed by Crooks and Liars on the right?
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment
Nicole: I've asked our tech people about that. That widget is controlled by Digg, not us. We're looking into it.
I love these moments we get to peek behind the curtain.
Bush, speaking in 2005 about social security reform (destruction).
..".you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." (applause)
I would have loved to have seen the faces of his handlers when he dropped the "P" bomb in front of god and everybody.
And then on Nov 8th 2006 when he fired Rummy, he explains why he lied about his previous answer to the question about keeping the VP and Rummy on.
"The only way to answer that question, and to get it on to another question, was to give you that answer."
Oh, OK, just so you had a good reason to lie, it's jake with us boss.
And this scumbag sees nothing wrong in manipulating the media or the message?? Goes to show what a bunch of pathological liars and scumbags we are dealing with. They aren't at all interesting in truth. Just their f*cked up message of misinformation, and manipulation of the information that gets tossed out to the gullible public.
We are not sheep. It's time to stop acting like it.
Odd that every political pundit promotes the idea that Democratic politicians must ignore their base if they want to win, but here's a Republican admitting that their hardcore base is the "influential" part of their support.
Dems, if you want to be successful, cater to your base. Govern for your base.
Evidently, the “We’ve Hit Rock Bottom” email has been distributed. As in, it’s no longer required to think before you speak or showing any semblance of pretending not to be a traitor to your oath of office. They probably believe that it can’t get any worse. Heh.
It's funny that the revelation of "tapes" turned the tide against the Nixon Administration, which many of these people like Rumsfeldt and Cheny spawned from, and now the revelation of lost "tapes" may bring down this Bush Administration. Maybe history will repeat itself here. Let's hope the irony proves to play itself out. I'm sure we can help it if we spread the news on the blogs and email groups we visit.
Orangutan. @ 14:
Thanks Nicole. That's awesome.
Cat Atomic @ 17:
Yes! Impeach!
I wonder how the trolls are taking this. How does it feel to have been manipulated by your gods? Maybe today you will finally wake up.
Out of topic I know. Al-Sadr just got killed. Like to know what's next now!
regurgitation is a great way to describe this entire administration.
texas monthly is right wing and christian run....asking a right wing christian run wingnut about right wingnut christian bloggers...........
they would all wipe hugh hewitts ass if they could
No wonder those right wing blogs smell like vomit.
Why is Bartlett taking up valuable pixels?
Is he pimping for Putin now?
They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them. It is something that we’ve cultivated and have really tried to put quite a bit of focus on.
That's the MAIN difference between a Stenographer and a Journalist, Dan. Journalists use critical thinking skills, stenographers just regurgitate... no critical thinking skills involved: "give me a little more of those authoritarian talking points, please."
Q. How much attention did you pay to the programs on cable?
"I never worried about a certain cable show. What I was looking for were trends that were shaping the narrative and the conventional wisdom and whether we had to be in front of or behind those things."
Funny how he singles out one show, obvious which show it is. KO has them paranoid.
"Regurgitate." He actually used the word. This quote's a few days old now, and I still can't get over the fact that he actually said, "regurgitate". That it's not a paraphrase, not a shorter Dan Bartlett", but his own actual words.
You'd think wingnut blogs would be apoplectic about being told they're being used in such a crass fashion, that they're seen as nothing but a bunch of tools that will obediently swallow any rancid pap served up to them, but no...
Bartlett and McConnell ought to get together, they have something in common.
McConnell lost his soul, Bartlett sold his. These two soul-less bastards could look for replacements together.
Hint to Dan and Mitch: Wait'll you get to hell, you'll find your old ones.
Piss on Dan Bartlett! (Make him feel at home)
Dan Bartlett may 'Loves him some wingnut blogs'
and he 'Licks him some wingnut nuts'.
Somebody needs to get Dan (and Bush & Cheney) a parrot for Christmas.
If Bartlett wants to be taken seriously, he's gonna have to change his name. And have some serious facial cosmetic work done. And seriously revamp his resume, removing all 'Bush' references. And make a serious move, perhaps to Bratislava.
And get serious.
That's pretty obvious to anyone that's not a tool of these people.
I hope his lifeboat has a hole in it as he leaves the sinking ship. Thank you Nicole for the KO comments effort you've done.
I don't see why the hardcore republican-support blogs who he's talking about would be upset by this. So far as I can tell, they believe that every word that comes out of the president's mouth is gospel, so why would they be upset because the White House counts on them to repeat exactly what it said?
You don't see preachers saying "I'm annoyed at God for counting on us to quote literally from the Bible."
Now, if you actually thought that, as a blogger, your job was to comment on or analyze the party line as opposed to just repeat it with blind support, you might be a little cheesed for being played.
Do you ever wonder who comes in here and reads YOUR comment? Could be anyone. Hmmm... Hi Dick. Hi George. Hi Alberto. ;) (Now I have to go and be sick.)
I do belive he is what's considered....A TOOL!
so much for Hugh Hewitt's ability to claim independence.
tool (tūl)
n.
A person used to carry out the designs of another; a dupe.
Vulgar Slang. A penis.
their blogs are downstream of their talk radio monopoly. no one reads their blogs but TR's got 50-70MIL listening to the GOPs coordinated uncontested repetition. 20 MIL of that are the larger part of Ws base. then they go to the blogs and Fox to get another dose.
"They regurgitate " no actually the suck and swallow.
Dan Bartlett's under the enlistment ceiling. Why doesn't he volunteer to serve in Iraq? He's sent plenty of husbands and fathers older than he is to fight and die there.
In other words, the only people with whom the WH wishes to communicate is the GOP base. which, is another way of proclaiming and admiting that the only people this administration believes it serves is it's core base instead of all Americans. Thanks for your honesty, Dan Bartlett. How ever inadvertant it was, this may be the first honest statement that has ever come out of the Bush White House.
gotta love when people attack blogs citing them as 'they can't be held accountable'. i see it in the sports blog world all the time. the blogs are doing a better job of holding people accountable than the media ever did.
It's funny, because even though he's made it explicitly clear that right wing blogs are seen as nothing more than easy marks for manipulation by the party, it won't change a thing. The righties will just clap louder, because they're too terrified to do anything but follow. Worse still, part of me thinks that these sad proles love the attention they get when they get to pretend that they've got any sort of influence with The Inner Party. Shit. I can almost see them fantasizing about the day, far into the future, when the newly sworn in reanimated cybernetic corpse of Arch President Cheney looks out into the crowd, winks with the dilating shutter on the infrared camera that is his left eye, and thanks "real Americans" for installing him as Benevolent Dictator for Life. And right at that moment, when he says "real Americans", they'll know that he's talking about them. And then they climax.
The End.
I think I'm gonna be sick...
'happened to see part of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson last night. Apparently, they have a segment called, "Fact Check." They highlighted some lies that Republican presedential candidates told about each other, but what I thought was hilarious was Gibson's intro to the segement where he said, "From time to time we here at ABC like to do a little fact checking." From time to time??? Did anybody else catch that?
mudshark @ 39:
But he's OK with it.
"They regurgitate exactly and put up on their blogs what you said to them."
Ditto-head, sycophant clones. Surreal in their lack of humanness.
You hear that Red-State.kook? Dan Bartlet just accurately pointed out what a tool your operation is.
I signed up at Red-State.kook about a month ago. I wanted to engage them, see what they had to say, see if we could learn from each other. On the first day I was involved in a pretty interesting dialogue with some commenters. At one point after a rude comment by the moderator, "Moe Lane", I responded and asked if we could get on the same page. He told me to write him a 750 paper to get my account turned back on. I wrote him about half of that and have appealed twice. No response. That's the Gestapo sycophants for you. Bunch of bible-thumping tools. After having read the blog for a few weeks, I found it to be very uninteresting anyway. The posts are so limited in scope and small-minded that it's really not engaging. This supports Dan Bartlets characterization. Tools to the end.
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