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11/11/2003 Archived Entry: "Alert! Meme switch! Meme switch!!"
Alert! Meme switch! Meme switch!!
I'm watching Bush speaking before the Heritage Foundation, and he just said something interesting - he just referred to the 'Sunni Triangle' as the 'Ba-athist Triangle.'
Watch for everyone from Cliff May to Ann Coulter to begin echoing this change in the coming weeks. Why, I don't know - maybe to tie the violence in the region more closely to Ol' Saddam, probably.
Replies: 4 people speak up
Does ANYONE from this administration ever speak in front of anyone other than the AEI or Heritage or Cato? Christ, must everything be stage-managed?
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 11/11/2003 04:45 PM NY
I think it's more likely that they don't want to tie the violence in the region with religion.
Posted by Mario @ 11/12/2003 12:08 AM NY
Can't agree with you, Mario.
They have been mixing religion into this whole affair from the beginning.
If they were so concerned about the religious connotations they would have surely fired Gen. Boykin for his incredibly stupid and inflammatory "Allah is an idol" remarks. And so on.
Posted by Yasmin @ 11/12/2003 02:52 AM NY
well, to paraphrase guy debord, language is part of the spectacle, which envelopes every aspect of our lives, and the spectacle works FOR those in power, because they controll and are controlled by it, by controlling the limits of discourse, they controll what can and cannot be expressed,
or to paraphrase orwell, if you eliminate a persons ability to say something, you eliminate their ability to think it as well,
or to paraphrase the early feminists, who i think said it best, language is a weapon, the primary one, as long as we continue to use their terminology, we cant defeat them, we must use our own words, as our own weapons.
thus by using words like: 1)"homocide bomber"
2)"liberation"
3"democracy"
4)"compassionate conservative"
5)"partial birth abortion"
6)"collateral damage"
7" baathist triangle"
they limit the discourse, and remove certain thoughts from the lexicon. the corresponding words we should be using are:
1)suicide bomber,
2)invasion,
3)oligarchy,
4)fascist,
5)constitutionally protected safe medical procedure,
6)murdered civilians,
and of course
7)unconquerable area
NEVER FORGET, IF WE USE THEIR WORDS, WE HAVE ALREADY LOST!
Posted by justin @ 11/12/2003 02:03 PM NY
