But when such articles are widely circulated, and believed, it hurts the credibility of anyone critical of this disastrous Presidency. Right-wingers will crow about the gullibility and political fanaticism of their opponents (thus ignoring the beams in their own eyes). And sadly, those who believed the lies will just get sullen and defensive.
For what it's worth, the article is by someone from the right, Doug Thompson, who went to Washington to join the Reagan revolution, and ended up working as "a fat cat job running a political action committee." See his reminiscences of 'Dutch Reagan' at
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4647.shtml
But yes, the story is now being circulated by naive leftists (Common Dreams) and cynics (Alexander Cockburn at CounterPunch).
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0604-13.htm http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06042004.html
I think it's a well-aimed satire, one that says as much about our readiness to believe as it does about the antics of the Bush administration. No reason to get sullen or defensive about it. I was willing to go along with it the first time I read it, and I was tempted to pass it along to friends and family (as Karen did to this list) but on the second reading, the writer seemed just a bit too sloppy for someone who supposedly had gone to such lengths getting people to talk about what goes on in high-level meetings.
Given the source, it may be reflect more about what's happening on the right overall.
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