The play book echoes through the G-Rove
> My god folks...it is a metaphor and you all know it.
Yes, we do. Never the less, I felt the need to call him out on it--hoping I could get an answer. None has been stated.
> Quit
> playing stupid.
I wasn't, but thanks for your rousing endorsement.
> Although I joke it is a metaphor but wasn't
> Karl Rove sending out thousands of talking points for the
> senators, congressmen and talk hosts? I have two right-wing
> talkers as friends who both received the same fax with
> talking points about Terry Schiavo. Almost sounds like a
> play book.
This is an oft-repeated claim: there's a Republican play book, and a "right-wing echo chamber" and it's all organized by Karl Rove.
This is not a one-party phenomenon--the left-wing has their own "echo chamber" (ever been to Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Democratic Underground, Camp Sheehan, and certain posts here at Radio-Info?). What is in this "left-wing echo chamber":
Karl Rove
No weapons of mass destruction
Bush's lies
War for oil
No link to 9/11
Threat to women's rights
Threat to civil rights
Karl Rove
Right-wing echo chamber
Karl Rove
Anti-Islam
Playbook
Karl Rove
And that's just today!
So, while there may be some sort of "talking points" distributed, don't think it's only one way--the lefties are distributing their own talking points, on different fax machines (and sometimes the same ones).
It's nothing more than politics as usual--and politicking by sound bite. HENCE, the talking points are needed.
And if you think the left is the only side with varied opinions contained within one ideology--then you haven't been listening to John McCain on campaign finance, Chuck Hagel on Iraq, George Voinovich (and National Review, and others) on federal spending, Christine Todd Whitmann on the environment, National Review on borders and immigration, etc.
It's hardly an echo chamber when leaders of the party are going public in their disagreement with the prevailing party line. And it's also not an echo chamber when you have the likes of Rush Limbaugh being upset at federal spending; Hugh Hewitt supporting Arlen Specter as Judiciary Chairman; William Safire supporting the rollback of media consolidation; etc.
So, let's get off this "echo chamber" business. You want to talk about "talking points"--whoever distributed the TP (metaphorically speaking, of course) that said "call anyone who supports something a Republican said part of the echo chamber" has fleeced alot of people.
It's politics--and anyone who gets wobbly over political acts (not the issues) needs a lie-down.