Repetitive daily scandal theory ?

Is it possible that by constantly bringing to light a new scandal every day, You assure any one scandal can not get enough traction in the corporate media to become significant?

The Jeff Gannon scandal, is replaced by the Tom Delay scandal which is replaced by Cunningham scandal which is replaced by Diebold etc. every day a new one pop up!

Eventually you may have to sacrifice a scooter or two but hey, your guys stay above the fray and still in power.

The media pontificators are always focused on the scandal you want them to be focused on.

Sound ridiculous? Maybe so, but I just can't understand why none of these vile things ever get the publics complete attention.

It's become "reality politics" with everyone grabbing their popcorn icons as the newest scandal starts breaking, barely able to remember the details of the last one.

Have You Had Your Bush Outrage This Week


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He keeps increasing his own power and the scope of the federal government. Part of his technique for doing this is what I call The Outrage of the Week.

In my Outrage of the Week theory, Bush and his minions take advantage of the fact that there's only so much room on the front page.

So what the Bush people do is telescope outrages, piling one on top of the other. Before we fully digest one outrage, our attention is diverted by the next.

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And so on. One outrage is stacked upon another with such speed that the public can't keep up.
And the beat goes on ...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2002/06/10/hsorensen.DTL&hw=outrage&sn=001&sc=1000

In my Outrage of the Week theory, Bush and his minions take advantage of the fact that there's only so much room on the front page.

So what the Bush people do is telescope outrages, piling one on top of the other. Before we fully digest one outrage, our attention is diverted by the next.

Suppose, for example, Bush announces he's scrapping America's participation in the Kyoto Accords. To many of us, that's an outrage. But before we can fully digest it, the Bush people announce they now plan to eavesdrop on lawyer-client conversations, a new outrage.

Most of us get so upset over this new outrage that we forget Kyoto. And then, before we get to digest the eavesdropping outrage, Bush announces he would consider using nuclear bombs as first-strike "defensive" weapons.

And so on. One outrage is stacked upon another with such speed that the public can't keep up.

Man, I think there is something to this.

The idea seems to be that people - like horses - can get used to pretty much anything. Meaning that at some point we aren't bother by whatever it is that we've gotten used to.
Scandal after scandal without much being done about it. Eventually many people will no longer be outraged by it, making it easier for the hijackers of our government to do as they please.

they essentially toss out so much chaff that the thing explodes on all the wrong target...lots of little crap. All the while the real boat or plane sails off into the sunset.

Yep...I've suspected this for a long time. Rather than deny or even lie about many things...just cover them up in some much other noise that people are unable to effectively seperate it from all the other crap out there.

Look at the stages all these revelations are in. They haven't even produced the real bombshells yet and other than the Fitzgerald fruitbasket--which also has hurricanes coming for republicans--they are only in the assembly stage.

As they solidify and produce fact making news, they will be like a building imploding. Once it starts, it's going to the ground. Count on it, they will be getting plenty of air time.

The Jeff Gannon scandal, is replaced by the Tom Delay scandal which is replaced by Cunningham scandal which is replaced by Diebold etc.

The difference between Gannon and the rest of those is that in the rest, someone goin' to jail.