As I noted last week, the Republican Party is using its GOP.com website to help its followers lie in public. GOP.com maintains a set of ready-made letters for its toadies to cut, paste, and automatically send off to newspapers around the country. The unethical dimension of the technique appears when Republicans sign their own names as authors, making it appear to dangerously gullible newspaper editors that a local salt-of-the-earth actual person, not some Republican Party hack, wrote the party-boosting letter.
Here is an example of one of GOP.com’s processed pablum cut-and-paste talking point McLetters:
President Bush has a clear plan for victory in Iraq that begins with training Iraqi forces so they can defend their country and fight the terrorists. We are making tremendous progress towards this objective. Earlier this year, Iraqi forces led the fight in clearing out terrorists during the crucial battle of Tal Afar, with U.S. troops in a supporting role, and every day, Iraqis are taking more control of the situation on the ground. Withdrawing from Iraq, as some Democrats in Washington propose, would send a dangerous signal to our enemies that we cut and run when the going gets tough. President Bush is offering a clear strategy to win, not a political quick fix.
The plagiarized letters continue to appear in news outlets around the country. Why, just this Wednesday the above words were cut and pasted 100% into an Argus Leader Media letter to the editor that Lynn Petersen of Brookings, South Dakota falsely claimed she wrote.
Lynn Petersen is the just latest citizen to turn herself into a lying tool of the Republican Party. Whether Lynn Petersen chooses to lie to a newspaper — and through the paper to lie to her neighbors — is a matter for her to decide upon and to deal with the consequences of. But when the Republican Party chooses to encourage citizens to lie to the media and to each other, then it becomes a policy issue and an indication of amorality in the Republican political machine. If you consider yourself a “moral values” voter, ask yourself how you can vote for a Party that is telling your fellow citizens to lie to you. Is that what you stand for? Is that what you want to vote for? I hope not.
OMG, I grew up in Brookings. At that time, there was no one there with the ‘-sen’ spelling of ‘Petersen’. I don’t doubt she moved there from Somewhere Else, if she is even a real person. But that’s just the sort of thing the ‘Angus Liar’ would print. They should stick to the farm report.
[President Bush has a clear and probally delusional plan for victory in Iraq that begins with training Iraqi forces so they also can brutilize their country and murder all they have a grudge or 300 year old vendetta with. We are making tremendous progress towards this objective. Earlier this year, Iraqi forces led the fight with the precise knowledge that if they so much as faltered they would be shot in the back, in clearing out civilians and so called terrorists and probally anything else that moved, during the crucial battle of Tal Afar, with U.S. troops in a supporting role aiming directly at the backs of their heads, and every day, Iraqis are taking more control of the situation on the ground reimplementing torture and horrible deaths into the mainstream of society just like in the good old days. Withdrawing from Iraq, as anybody with a brain can see is the obvious thing to do before we really piss them all off, and something some Democrats in Washington actually propose, while not stealing as much money as they can and trying to sodomize senate pages, would send a dangerous signal to our enemies that we have finally awaken and are now ready to drag the stooges by their ankles down the capitol hill steps and string them up like mussolini and take our country back.When the going gets tough ,President Bush will probally just cut and run into the first available underground bunker like he always does ,wearing his cowardice like the badge of honor he and his horrible witch mother so self-rightously believes it is.] SO , JUST CUT AND PASTE THIS AND STICK IT ON EVERY REPUBLICAN /NAZI WEBSIGHT THAT YOU CAN.IT ALMOST READS THE SAME, BUT DIFFERENT.