Retro Propaganda for a Retro Ideology
Sarah Palin represents “old-fashioned” values. You may see that as a good thing (if you’re conservative) or a bad thing (if you’re liberal). But whatever side you’re on, we pretty much all agree that she’s peddling a return to a hazy golden era of American history before the big-government welfare state arrived on the scene and ruined (conservative) or fixed (liberal) everything.
What’s confusing is that she’s using ultra-modern media techniques to promulgate her retro message. She’s the queen of Twitter, Facebook, reality TV, soundbites and blogbursts.
It may feel appropriate when progressive groups use outrageous postmodern propaganda to promote a postmodern ideology — but the disconnect of Palin (and the movement she represents) using 21st-century technology to summon a bygone America has always left me a little unsettled.
Shouldn’t we be using retro propaganda techniques to promote a retro ideology?
My answer: Yes!
The medium is the message, people, and if you want to bring back the values of the past, you necessarily must do so by utilizing the media techniques of that same past.
In order to rectify this glaring omission in the conservative messaging arsenal, I have taken it upon myself to create the kind of propaganda that the Palin campaign (and she is running for president, no doubt about it) ought to be making:
(Click on the illustration [or here] to view a full-size version of the poster, suitable for framing or detailed admiration.)
This drawing is based on those classic “stairway to a better life” illustrations often found in early/mid-20th-century self-help books and magazine articles.
Print, link, distribute — backward to a better future!
Let me point out once more that “palin” is a Greek word meaning “return” or going back again. Think palindrome. But think Palin through and through.
Sarah Palin is hardly about a hazy golden era, but very much about real small town American families. Those who hate Palin really don’t know what they’re on about, but it’s a hatred of America as a nice place to live and a good place to raise kids. That’s about all the hatred is. She’s an embodiment of normal and ordinary America. Obviously, many people do hate that, and her for it.
Great points, Dag. When something doesn’t resonate with progressives they simply dismiss it as being beneath them, of no value.
Thank you, Dag. I’m one of those small-town people (left the big city because too many of my friends were getting raped and/or murdered). My number one question of any policy proposal is: Will this make it harder or easier to raise healthy kids? Will this make their lives more difficult, dangerous, chaotic–or less so?
This is not the place to lay out my life story, (that’s what Hollywood and Vine is for,) but I will write that I came from a small town not far from Sarah Palin’s home, and I knew folks like her and her family, not “small-town” people but ordinary and naturally decent folks who were essentially American in a long-term, traditional sense, if you will. They were not different in most ways from those living in Brooklyn or Queens or Staten Island when I was a kid. There and then life was about family, without being “familism” in the primitive sense. What saved us from primitive tribalism and blood-feuds and so on that some think of as “small town” is that we had a whole nation of fellows, of Americans, and they were good like we were good. There was no public freak show like Zombie displayed here recently, a culture of “diversity” that is nothing more than a euphemism for misanthropy. My town small and ordinary and was full of Sarah Palins, and those women were the kinds of people I see in America’s Tea Parties. The folks who couldn’t make it in my little town moved to the cities to live anonymously and as they would. They became the freak show. They hate Sarah Palin for being ordinary, a matter of resentment and hatred of what it is to be a humble person in a great nation, a life one can take pride in as a small and private being. That is Sarah Palin, writ large.
I could, and do, go on. For this day, God Bless America, and you all.
Very true, Dag.
Millions of us know people like Sarah and Todd Palin. They are our friends, neighbors, and families. One thing is quite clear – the hatred and mockery they throw at Sarah Palin is exactly how they feel about us, too. We’re getting the message that the party that claims to be for the “little guy” looks down on most of America. The election is the first round of our response. They can go to hell.
She is not “normal”. She may embody a lot of what is fractious, dumb, ignorant, racist, lazy, greedy, vicious and hypocritical with a capital H in this country. She has fooled many of the people who are “just like her”. What planet did you drop in from? She is not “ordinary” like you or me, unless you embody those adjectives listed above. She is not hated for being a small town “good” American. She is as far from good as the earth is to infinity in space. You need to take off your blinders and join reality. BTW: america is no conglomeration of good ole “ordinary” people in small towns. This country has the highest rate of psychopath’s in the world. Do your research! Its social ills reek with bureaucratic quadruples of agencies to deal with those social ills. It is founded upon racism and rabid religiosity that condemns any not of its ilk. Did you forget your own history? Burning witches! Hanging blacks well into the 20th century. Stealing them from their own continent and making them slaves! Not to mention this country’s original THEFT and the criminal Genocide of millions of “American” Indians. The land is still stolen and the Indians are still on reservations where conditions exist that you obviously know nothing about in your cozy little surreal world. Why do you have so many homeless in this land of plenty!? Why are drugs destroying the fabric of your families and has created corrupted agencies within your government to deal with your massive massive drug problems!? I ask again what planet did you arrive from!? One sarah palin has divided this already divided country even more with her hysterical rantings on patriotism, military, and her effing hypocritical so called christianity(when did anyone see her going to church lately except to be prayed over by a “witch doctor”(self described) from Africa!! You obviously have your head buried in a bucket of mud. She is ZILTCH in “america’s” ALASKA. Get a grip. There is so much badness in that woman who calls herself a human than you will ever be able to comprehend. SELF SELF SELF AND MORE SELF IS WHAT SHE IS ABOUT. You are nothing to her but someone to step on/over on her way to NARCISSISTIC GRANDIOSE SELF GRATIFICATION, POWER AND CONTROL. Welcome to her world you fool.
Does this Leftbot have an OFF switch?
If not, we’ll just have to wait until the batteries run down.
It doesn’t seem like it, no. And no witch was e er burned, here. Under English law, witches were hanged after trial, conviction and appeal.
I love ignorant rants. They leave so many gaping holes to drive through!
Let me guess – Birkenstock wearing, bitter, single, unsuccessful and most of all jealous. Go away sad little hippie.
Murkowski, you should really stop blogging and focus on stealing your election from the guy who won the right to run for your party in Alaska. Unless of course you are not Murkowski and really meant your post to be about her but just got confused with names.
You’re one wild ‘n crazy, mixed up kid.
As a bitchy, sleazy, absolutely senseless, strictly self-serving, despicable and vicious vendetta, and with the help of Tea Partiers from California and that weasely Alaskan attorney, Miller, it was little Miss Cutesy, Sarah Palin, who tried to sabotage Lisa Murkowski’s reelection to the U.S. Senate, only to find that most of the voters in Alaska have a MUCH higher regard for Lisa Murkowski than they do for little Miss Cutesy, and only to find, also, that, with her extremely irresponsible, senseless and bitchy behavior, that damned fool pushed a Rino even further into the camp of the Democrats. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt: Perhaps you are too ignorant and uninformed to be aware of those now irrefutable facts. (Something tells me that you thought that Palin’s ditzy pick, Christine O’Donnell, was a terrific candidate, too.)
Even Nancy Pelosi had sense enough to get a new and more becoming hairstyle to improve her image.
When is Sarah Palin going to fix that rat’s nest on her head? She always looks so frumpy, too.
All of the women in Alaska have that same look; like they just thawed out from being in permafrost since 1950.
A little cheesy but i like..er admire it.
I confess, zombie, I don’t know what you’re satirizing. Palin’s ideas? Her means of communicating them? Both? Something else entirely?
Every male who’s been talked about so far is a younger McCain and evokes the same kind of enthusiasm from me. What makes Romney feasible suddenly when only a couple years ago the Mormon thing was a candidacy killer? Pawlenty? Let’s try to be a little serious. You can go down the roster and they all have the pizazz of a dead fish.
Sarah. People will wait overnight to see her. What male pol in the country can do that? Run him instead of Sarah. Otherwise, get behind Sarah. We won’t have to drag her over the finish line.
What male pol in the country can do that?
Allen West.
The only question left in my mind is:
Palin/West in 2012? or West/Palin 2012?
I think we’ll have to go with Palin/West, since she’s already paid her VP-candidate dues.
Two conservative rock stars campaigning across the country on the same ticket? The stadiums will shake!
The Left’s worst nightmare come true: a feminist woman and a take-no-prisoners proud black man, on the same ticket – for the Republicans!
I’d vote Palin/West in a heartbeat.
Okay, I got the answer to my question.
After reading Going Rogue, I believe Palin will never run for veep again. So Palin/West it is! Woo-hoo!
The name, Zombie, suits you perfectly …, although I’m getting a visual of an android with artificial intelligence, too, like Dot Matrix (Joan Rivers version of CP30 in Spaceballs).
I’d vote Palin/West in a heartbeat.
Oh hell yeah.
Allen West is the Antiobama.
And with a guy like him on the ticket advising her on foreign and military policy, so much for any criticism of her lack of experience in those areas.
Although I don’t live in his district, I donated to the campaign of Lt. Col. West. I would absolutely love to see him on a national ticket.
So if I understand the point she is campaigning on the reverse of a “back to the future” theme? Maybe something like “Onward to Yesteryear”?
It seems a rather clear choice, Zombie.
Sarah Palin has us climbing upward, on snowy mountains in Alaska and elsewhere. It seems her message to America is, “turn to the right and inhale a breath of fresh air”.
The Obama administration and their TSA seem to be saying “turn left…and cough”
“turn left…and cough”
If the TSA gets any more extreme, it’s going to be “Bend over … and spread ‘em”.
That is the EPA with its new orders from Obama.
Yeah, well, I’m inclined to suspect that the passengers on those planes that flew into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania on 9/11 would have LOVED it if everybody on those flights had been screened, patted down and x-rayed before THEY had boarded THEIR flights. Get a grip, get real and stop whining. Consider the consequences if screening is relaxed and some madmen bring box-cutters onto another flight.
Setting aside whatever your point is, Zombie, Palin isn’t advocating an outdated philosophy in the least.
What’s outdated is change for change’s sake.
The correct philosophy is timeless: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Sarah’s all over that one.
And just in case the point’s not clear….there is nothing wrong with the United States that merits more than a tweak here and there. 99.9% of our ‘problems’ are ones that the marxists have created to stir up the natives and increase their own power.
We would be looney to change the most successful political model of all time. Which, of course, explains liberalism in 14 words.
I agree with you wholeheartedly about our problems primarily being the work of ill-intentioned Marxists stirring up discontent where none existed before.
But the sticking point is that they’ve been screwing with the national psyche and the national economy for several decades now, and they have succeeded in creating an extant status quo in which their artificially induced pseudo-problems have become real problems. My point is that Sarah is advocating for a return to that era which preceded the Marxist meddling, which would indeed require action be taken — to dismantle the Entitlement State and the Resentment State to go back to a healthier time.
America ought not to have become “broke,” but unfortunately it is broke, so it does need some fixin’.
Zombie;
Onward Christian Soldier: “to dismantle the Entitlement State and the Resentment State to go back to a healthier time.”
Needs to be done, up to us to do it. Back to the Future!
Off subject, but VERY current topic. TSA activities are all about government building size. The Obama WH would much prefer a 5 to one ratio: with 51,666,666.67 normal, non-governmental citizens and former Illegal Aliens (they like those 6s in clusters of three!), with federal government being at a 258,333,333.33 population (they like clusters of 3s too, it’s easy to make a 6 from it).
I look forward to a Palin presidency to watch her quickly whittle government size back down to as NERO ZERO as one can get. She’ll get much cheering in my household!
There is also something to be said for a CUTE female president. We’d be listening to words stated. As opposed to flipping channels. I find it absolutely disgusting with Obama infecting my TV nearly daily!!!
A. I love your posts. They often approach genius. Didn’t mean to be overly critical (although I did think your point was somewhat obscure this time).
B. With your explanation, I see your point but I’m not sure I agree that Palin is advocating going back. Maybe I’m wrong about that because I don’t follow her that closely. The whole topic should be a variation of one of Rush’s key points, which is that it is a mistake to accept a false premis. THEY may say we are only about going back, but WE don’t have to accept it. OUR approach is timeless, not an outdated approach or old-fashioned in any way. If Palin says or implies that we are returning to the past, she should stop.
C. We even make a mistake agreeing that the ‘problems’ are complex. Many are phantom problems in the first place. And those that are real can usually be solved with a dose of common sense, rather than some convoluted government solution that always causes problems far worse than the one that was supposed to be solved. Many examples of that, but the “problem du jour” is the airport porno searches. Huge expense; huge inconvenience; huge invasion of privacy; huge humiliation; won’t solve anything. Profiling Middle Easterners, males, ages 15 to 35, non-citizens, with one-way tickets, with strange travel patterns, with a hierarchy of levels of scrutiny is the common sense solution that every child already knows is the correct approach.
Wuh…?
After the butt-wipe we have now representing the United States, every resident in the local homeless shelter will be running for president next time. English proficiency not required. Federal funding for their campaigns is available.
From my point of view, America is inherently “progressive”, but in a defined and restricted way. The Constitution creates the boundary to allow america to “progress” by having a well-defined government. If the government follows the Constitution to a “T”, the people are allowed to progress, NOT the government. Family values aside, Sarah Palin’s “old fashioned” values hinge on a constitutionally restricted government. If one were to use the point of view that america “progresses” through history with the Constitution as a guide, then her values are “progressive” NOT “old-fashioned”.
Progressives seem to have no goals other than to wipe america clean of “old-fashioned” values. No goal aside from this seems to exist…am I right? Who, or what, do Progressives want to “progress”? All I see Progressives interested in are economic redistribution in its varied forms, all requiring the encroachment of the government on the individual. Progressives seem more interested in the government “progressing” than the people. If her values are “old fashioned” to you, you either favor the Progressive ideology or cannot see past her personal values.
There is something about this essay that leaves me feeling queasy. The author is either too cute by half, or thinks the readers are half as smart as they ought to be. Either way, the author is disconnected from Sarah Palin and the reality she represents. It is a faux issue the author presents, as if the very presentation could legitimate the theft of time it represents for readers to take it seriously enough to read. Wrong, again.
It takes, what, 30 whole seconds to read the post? That’s not Grand Theft of your time, that’s pickpocketing a nickel.
It’s not that I think the readers aren’t smart, it’s that I’m trying to present the concept in such as way as to be amusing to both Palin-lovers and Palin-haters. Which is no simple feat, since the social groupings are mutually exclusive. The country seems to be split right down the middle on the Sarah issue. Writing something entertaining to both sides is a difficult tightrope act, which may give the impression that I’m trying to be “cute” by not embracing either side.
There are a million blog posts per day in America; if this one didn’t ring your bell, move on (dot org).
Speaking of tactics I see two of my comments were “disappeared” from your previous installment, Zombie. I’m sure it only turned out that way, since the page was having problems, or whatever. It’s just that you were in fact trying to redirect and block discussion regarding my post’s subject, which circumstantially, only suggests you might have junked it purposely. Your post, giving directions to cut off speaking of creationism, is also missing. Weird.
You weren’t singled out — about 50 comments got “eaten” by the WordPress system. Five or six of my own comments disappeared. It had nothing whatsoever to do with the content of the comments. It just so happened that some commenters had gotten into an argument at the exact moment when the PJM database blew a fuse, so the argument got interrupted.
Still not entirely sure what the cause was. Something happened with the “clock” timestamping the comments, and some were sent into the past and appeared out of chronological order, while some were sent into the future and I guess were shunted into an imaginary queue to appear when their allotted time finally came due. When the clock was eventually fixed, all those out-of-chronology comments went “Poof!”, in some cases retroactively. Sorry about that.
Fine. No problem. I believe you.
It’s the chrono-synclastic infundibulum. It’ll getcha every time.
Palin a hypocrite? Does the word “retard” ring a bell? It elicited a demand for Rahmbo to be fired. Not so when Rush used it. Or when Dr.Laura ripped of “nigger” eleven times in the space of a couple of minutes. No, she was having her First Amendment rights trample4d on by the evil left.
The bailout? She was all for it, remember? “As for the economic bailout provisions and the measures that have already been taken, it is a time of crisis and government did have to step in playing an appropriate role to shore up the housing market to make sure that we’re thawing out some of the potentially frozen credit lines and credit markets, government did have to step in there.’
Then she called it an assault on free enterprise.
She tok that stand against a college student who hacked into her email. She said, “I don’t know, but I do think there should be consequences for bad behavior.”
“This coming from the Quitter Governor of Alaska who:
* used state resources to relentlessly pursue a family vendetta
* took per diem as governor while sleeping in her own bed
* took her kids at state expense on official State of Alaska business trips
* lashed out at socialized “death panel” health care while her family was covered by socialized “death panel” health care
* enjoyed socialized health care in Canada when she growing up and needed it
* has health care provided to her grandson through Indian Health Services
* advocates abstinence when it never worked for her own family
* family members ignored subpoenas and were found in contempt
(Muflats)
The woman is a complete charade, a poseur, a phony, and she knows it. And you know it, but you’re so pathetically cowed by her folksy charm that you can’t admit the truth. Sad, so sad. You’re all like Todd, who similarly succumbed to her wink and a smile, only to find himself married to this ego shrew who, by all accounts, would divorce the banshee if he weren’t’ on the gravy train.
There’s a reason she won’t speak to anyone but Sean Hannity, whose most challenging question is, “How do you deal with being so patriotic?”
I look forward to the day she implodes trying to answer an actual question. Unfortunately, that will never happen. Why not? Because she is a coward.
As for me being here? Clearly, I’m good for business.
what is PJM’s antiquated computer using for a server; a Model T Ford’s distributer?
The only worry in my mind of a Sarah Palin run, and potential presidency, is what it might drive the wacko’s to try. Wacko is a nice word, too, because truly the vitriol against Mrs. Palin is so overwrought, ugly, and stupid that the real description is more akin to evil a-holes.
You people need some new heroes. Shoot a little higher. Don’t settle for a hypocrite with a nice ass.
Why is this Alinskyite troll showing up in almost every PJM story?
Who are his handlers?
Why is PJM tolerating him, while censoring Conservatives at times?
Good question.
I don’t have full admin powers so don’t have the ability to ban or unban anyone. If you think he needs to be shown the door, consider sending a complaint email to the editors. What a relief that would be.
But in a sense, he’s a good barometer for the truth. Whatever “Your Sensei” says, you can guarantee the exact opposite is true.
In this case, Sarah Palin is the ultimate anti-hypocrite. She’s against abortion, and true to her beliefs carried a Down’s Syndrome baby to full term and loved him with all her heart. Talk about pro-life! Can’t get less hypocritical than that. Every self-centered liberal narcissist would have aborted that baby in two seconds flat, as would have any hypocritical pro-lifer. But not Sarah.
Fear not, Z, I have full admin powers. All is well. Trust me.
Why is PJM tolerating him,
Why did George tolerate Lennie in Of Mice And Men? Like George, we are nice people.
Of course, George ended up having to shoot Lennie in the head at the end.
Your mind never travels far from the fantasy of stroking the warm barrel of a gun, does it. Classic latent homosexuality. You’re a true conservative.
Why?
“You people”. “Hypocrite”. “I could lie about it from here to next Thursday, what difference would it make?” Sure liar. Let’s take a look.
This is the Cream of the Cesspool that the Modern Liberal world has to offer. Born sleazits is but one manifestation of Persons Galore, a unit dedicated simply to drawing attention to itself. The superficial existence as a Modern Liberal is not about any political/moral/ethical issue, the window dressing is there to provide a platform solely used to massage a deep, abiding hate.
Notice that its posts are universally negative, and usually negative with the sense that its “logic” goes nowhere but in circles. Bitter hate. About 80-90% of the left leaning comments at any one time are posted by Persons Galore, posting with different names, lying about who it is. Misdirection. Falsifying.
Lying consistently about who it is, as with the Multiple Personalities presented, is viewed by itself as clever payback to those who would oppose its world order. Clever because, everything it does is clever, therefore the lying is justified because it has a divine clever mission. Clever!
Such as –
59. Alice Nolin:
“If, indeed, its you who’s taken seriously here, then all my most carefully crafted insults would never serve to illustrate the depth of stupidity represented by this website.”
Your Sensei
“If you had a sense of humor, irony or me, you’d know right off that I don’t believe anything in the carefully constructed opening paragraph.”
“Carefully…” “crafted…”constructed…” Lies.
And notice that it always has something that others don’t have. Something. “I’ll…”
“Here, I’ll put it in terms you can track …
November 18, 2010 – 2:55 pm
“Here, I’ll…” “You people…” “Go ahead, I’ll wait . . .” I know better than you. Why? Because you are you and I am Me.
Persons Galore alone exhibits in its many name game the Multiple Person Galore Comments Syndrome on PJM. The are a few other legitimate left leaning commenters posting, and one gets the notion that they view Person Galore in a poor light.
And the exposure can go like this. Anyone notice a pattern?
14. Your Sensei
“You people need some new heroes.”
November 22, 2010 – 7:03 pm
29. Your Sensei
“What the hell is wrong with you people?”
November 22, 2010 – 8:06 am
7. Your Sensei
“Yeah, you people sure now how to pick em… ”
“Go ahead, I’ll wait . . .”
November 9, 2010 – 7:16 am
49. Your Sensei
“And you wonder why we hold you people in such low regard.”
November 6, 2010 – 7:20 am
Wow Really
It’s stunning how uninformed, arbitrary and gullible you people are.
October 20, 2010 – 4:14 pm
Betty Knows
You people are precisely what’s wrong with this country.
Carl
I swear, you people are beyond help.
August 14, 2010 – 12:39 pm
Praetorian
But the Constitution is a bit inconvenient for you people right?
It doesn’t get any more clear than that, you don’t even need a lawyers degree to understand it, plain old english.
July 29, 2010 – 6:18 pm
Praetorian
It’s gonna be a rough eight-years for you people (i.e. fascists).
July 3, 2010 – 8:46 pm
119. miriam rove
you people are mind bugling
June 22, 2010 – 2:05 pm
45. G Marks
You people are hilarious.
June 13, 2010 – 8:34 am
139. Principal Levine
One day, when you people finally regain your senses…
May 21, 2010 – 2:04 pm
20. sleazits
You people sure know how to pick your saviors.
January 30, 2010 – 9:58 am
And so on. Scolding, scolding, scolding. “You people”.
At some point in a person’s life that person most likely received the information that riveting a Kick Me sign to one’s ass may not be in one’s best interest. The Kick Me sign is firmly in place. This is the goal of Persons Galore.
The mind of the Freudian Dora Born sleazits is a fertile home for self inflicted hate and bitterness. And lying is the only means to its “self worth”.
39. Moho:
“…you people really do make me feel like an intellectual giant.”
Jan 8, 2010 – 5:38 pm
139. Moho
I could lie about it from here to next Thursday, what difference would it make?
Nov 4, 2009 – 8:01 pm
Clang! Kick’s away! Liar.
Whatever.
Cool. I like this. Good work.
Aw geezez …, Mr. Lucky is so batty that he gives senseiless credibilty. You realize that, don’t you?
“Aw geezez …” Aw shucks, Born sleazits Persons Galore, why bring Reality into the Modern Liberal Cesspool? The Funhouse Mirror is likely to self detonate like that poor underwear bomber. Nice work on the proto, Born sleazits, Wannabe Jihadist. Too bad reproduction is no longer an option.
Ok, Gems from the Cesspool! Remember last year?
252. Moho:
“Malingering hillbillies that you are, your traditional dishonest manipulation of turning the event into a four day holiday fails with people who don’t share your enthusiasm for the celebration of the triumph of holocaust. Back to work, you shiftless cousin-f%^^%ers.”
Nov 27, 2009 – 10:28 am
39. Moho:
“…you people really do make me feel like an intellectual giant.”
Jan 8, 2010 – 5:38 pm
No kidding. The need is overwhelming.
And Van Jones? Does he have a green Kick Me sign lined up for Born sleazits? Hemp fiber!
Used and discarded. Clang!
Whatever.
Like that other fool, Ditch Digger, Mr. Lucky is so lame and so obnoxious that if he was a native American indian, he would be staked-out spread-eagle on an ant hill by members of his own tribe.
Gee, doncha wonder if Mr. Lucky and Ditch Digger are the same person? The odds are asrronomical that there could be two people posting here at the same time who are that lame and that obnoxious.
Just say’n.
Mr. Loony, er, Lucky @ 11:06 am
Thanks, you weirdo, you just made my point.
Dayum son, you are dumb. You never learn.
That’s it for now. I’m out of here for the weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. You, too, you weirdo.
“Aw geezez …” Aw shucks, Born Liar sleazits Persons Galore, what a nice Smiley Face grouping. Interesting how The Liar knows just where to go, just in time with the Funhouse Mirror Rap.
And lame? What could be more lame than a lame basted, used and discarded Kick Me sign needing attention. Hi Kyber. Remember? Of course you do.
Kicks away! Clang! Drop by soon again. You know where this is. Smiley Face Liars.
Whatever.
Mr. Mirror
Born Luckless Ideals Galore, snorting lithium is my new rage (and prescription).! Well, it is a semi-free country, at least it is here amid the leafy grounds of the Permanence Ward. (Your socialism dollars at work.) If you say it’s ok, surely there are long lines ready for Ideals Galore IN the Conservatank of Love.
And where the hell is Weenie Galore? I need a few reminders of why I’m so tense all the time. If only I had more access to Weenie Galor! Sarah Palin’s Love Club. The First Club. Ooh, so yummy. So quiet. So toddly. Rhymes with bodily. Almost. Close enough for me cuz that’s the stuff of fluids. Of course. Paper towel, anyone? Please and thank you. May I have a brother?
Time for a belly full of disconnected discontent! Can I get an AMEN!
252. Mr. Lucky: “Don’t ask us to help you when the dastardly little dark ones come for you in the night. And they will. I’ve seen them. They creep into my room every night.”
Nov 27, 2009 – 10:28 am
39. Mr. Lucky: “I’m SMART! I’m not like people say I am. I’m SMART! I can handle things!”
Jan 8, 2010 – 5:38 pm
Giant Desperado?
And who might be branded with that signature “I’m SMART” utterance? Why, Guess Who, The “American” Psycho – Born Feckless!”
14. Mr. Lucky “If you were smart like me, you’d know that a ham is worth more than a turkey.”
November 22, 2010 – 7:03 pm
29. Mr. Lucky “Two plus two is four. I know, I read it once in a book.”
November 22, 2010 – 8:06 am
Great Luckless Louie ad campaign lately for the Non sequitur of the Year Award. And Mr. Lucky really did “kick some ass” did he not?
714. Mr. Lucky “ With toothpaste oozing out of the eyeglasses of my mind. I walk the streets of marrow. The boulevard of franks and beans. Serendipitous, is it not? Methinks so.”
November 22, 2010 – 8:06 am
Maybe some of that Stimulus Booty will come your way. Then you can procure a larger target! Maybe one with the face of Martin Luther on it. Or maybe Bobby “I Have a Green Face” Jindhhhhaaaaallllll. Clang!
So where did Sarah Palin learn to use that steely dan? Wasilla? That’s where I, Mr. Lucky, learned to his and hers. Bigger than any backyard fence, and twice as woody! Yeah, really.
Whatever.
Hypocrite, you say? Prove it and put up or shut up. Give us specific, documented examples.
Don’t be such a retard.
Not one Republican candidate has been “on message” like Sarah after she resigned as governor. To suggest she is retro is stupid. How retro is “profile away!” in the airports? Or her great letter to the WSJ on the $600B goosing the system? She’s on target like a cruise missile whereas the rest of the contenders are mushy obfuscates. Using today’s free media, instead of the franking system, is not a valid criticism.
Progress? If the lemmings are running headlong for the edge of the cliff, the one that turns back first is most “progressive.” Retro, indeed.
IMO, a hypocrite with a nice ass is better than a hypocrite without a nice ass, but then I’m a sexist.
If Sarah Palin (or any other potential GOP candidate) comes up and takes a strong position against islam (not just ‘radical islam’), the islamization of America and sharia law, then she (or he) has my vote. In my book, confronting islam is the single most important and in fact existential issue for the US, far greater than any fiscal or monetary issue or any other social issue.
What’s so old fashioned about an American way of life, developed to its maximum in the twentieth century, compared to Marxism, a sour nineteenth century perversion?
What makes Marxism more appropriate to tweet about? Modern media is American, modern. Marxism is about the old woodcuts.
Sometimes you grab the narrative, zombie, and sometimes the narrative grabs you.
I’m not quite so naive.
My main point is that the propaganda techniques of the old days, such as the “stairway to freedom” illustration above, or the “I Like Ike” TV ads, are in many ways more effective and reach the psyche more directly than the supposedly “sophisticated” hyper-modern propaganda ploys, such as the completely insane “MoveOn.org” ad I linked to in the introduction. They spent a LOT of money making that anti-Palin ad, but as far as I can assess, it is nothing but liberal political masturbation, and convinced no one of anything except for the supposed cleverness of the filmmakers. But a simple visual allegory, made in ten minutes with Adobe Illustrator, can have a stronger effect on the viewer. And since the allegory propaganda style harkens back to an earlier era, as does the pre-Marxist vision of America championed by Palin, I thought it was appropriate to point out the linkage.
I understand that the Left is attempting to brand Palin’s attitude as “backwardness,” and I understand that is nothing more than an attempt at slander. I was trying to use their momentum against them, like the way gay activists purposely adopted the label “queer” to defuse its potency as an insult. My point was: You want to brand Palin’s cause as “backward” and unsophisticated? Well, here’s some “backward” and unsophisticated conservative propaganda back atcha — and guess what, it works better than your modern garbage.
“…a simple visual allegory, made in ten minutes with Adobe Illustrator, can have a stronger effect on the viewer.”
Amen. We conservatives need to master all of the modes of communication, whether old or brand new.
Where is the conservative street art? Something like your retro poster would make a great mural or billboard.
Here’s a crazy idea. Rather than trying to package things differently – how about sarah actually tell americans what she would do. All the gauzy mom-and-apple-pie is just avoiding details.
Does she actually want less government? Ok, so what would she get rid of in her first term? What would be the impact of that? Will she really cut taxes? Ok, who gets the tax cuts? You might be aware that I’ve been trying for about three days to get posters on another thread to nominate something – anything – that they know sarah palin would do if she were elected president. I haven’t had a single answer. Not one.
I’d say the medium isn’t her problem – her problem is that she’s not saying anything. She’s adopting the “small target” approach. That’s fine, but it leaves you with nothing more than what you THINK are her values and what you THINK is her character. I’d suggest you have no way of actually knowing either anyway, but that’s up to you if you want to believe in a cardboard cut-out. There’s a lot of that going around.
No, lefties don’t want her to have serious power. Mostly it’s because they think she is likely to empower a political group that lefties have been at war with for a couple of decades. To them, she represents the people who want to ban abortion (and hang the consequences), cut people loose when they most need help (but still tax them regardless), enforce (christian) prayer in (christian) public schools, allow creationism to be taught as science (while eliminating anything else they find uncomfortable), brand america as an exclusively (protestant) christian nation and prevent any level of government from communicating with citizens in any language other than english. To liberals, every single one of those intentions is a perversion of freedom, at odds with the constitution and just downright wrong.
Is that an unfair characterisation? Nobody knows, because she refuses to say anything about her intentions. She’s been running a faux-campaign for three years, and never mentions policy. And nobody thinks to ask.
Leave out the atmospherics – people vote for leaders because of what they expect they will DO. Obama was very clear about what he wanted to do. You have to give him that. I can’t even IMAGINE hillary clinton trying to run for anything without focusing on policy. By comparison palin is a policy ink-blot, and she seems to like it that way.
Yes, those are unfair characterizations. For example, as for the Creationists position, there are zero creationists, that I know of, who endorse the elimination of teaching evolution. They want FAIR CRITICISM to be taught. Why has evolution been allowed to elbow it’s way into being as truth when there is ample evidence to refute it? or a lack thereof to verify it?
Anyway, my opinion about why a person, who seems mostly fair like yourself, could come away with the notion that she hasn’t revealed her intentions is actually that she hasn’t had an appropriate platform yet. Yes, because she first came on the stage behind John McCain, and she immediately went from there to being a commentator for Fox. She is doing what she is supposed to be doing (as respectful as a future president might), giving criticism of policies she doesn’t agree with and letting the nation get to know her more and more by standing up for older policies and leaders she DOES like. Indirectly she is showing her intentions a bit, but for the most part she is putting out the message that she is NOT an empty vessel. And that is important to note, because that is exactly the message the MSM has been selling.
KevinB
“… as for the Creationists position, there are zero creationists, that I know of, who endorse the elimination of teaching evolution.”
http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-human-condition/2010/04/14/a-new-reason-not-to-teach-evolution-to-kids-it-s-philosophically-unsatisfactory.html
“They want FAIR CRITICISM to be taught. Why has evolution been allowed to elbow it’s way into being as truth when there is ample evidence to refute it? or a lack thereof to verify it?”
A lack of evidence to verify it? Far out. If you want to see what a lack of evidence looks like, check out the theory currently known as “intelligent design”. That lacks any evidence at all – it’s just a philosophical hypothesis.
“Anyway, my opinion about why a person, who seems mostly fair like yourself”
Thanks. I think I’m pretty fair.
“could come away with the notion that she hasn’t revealed her intentions is actually that she hasn’t had an appropriate platform yet”
Hmm. She’s had the limelight since obama took office.
The problem I see is this … whatever the reasons why she hasn’t spelled out any sort of platform, the fact is that you guys still support her. Nobody here seems to be able to say what they think she might do, but you all still think she’d make a great president. I realise that this isn’t an election campaign, but jeeze. She’s now been super-popular for about three years (give or take a period while the reps were blaming her for their defeat), and you really don’t know what she would do if she was elected?
Do you really think that’s rational?
Well, you seemed fair, but I don’t think you are being fair now regarding Sarah Palin. It’s 2010 still, remember, and you are complaining that you don’t know what her presidential policies are. I’m sure you just have a high standard, or something, and not a double-standard. I still think my first answer was an adequate explanation. Sarah Palin jumped on the scene backing Senator McCain. She went back to work as governor of Alaska briefly, and then went on to take a position as a commentator for Fox. It does not behoove her, if she planned to run, to start campaigning against Obama from these vantages. It would be disrespectful to the presidency, and premature on her part. Also, if you think she is being disrespectful to the president currently understand that that is the wrong context. She is well within her right to voice difference or challenge, but that she is nevertheless respectful of the position of the presidency and thus has not enumerated any certain policies is the right context, and disposition.
Matthew, that link you gave is about one teacher. And you know what, I agree with him. However, we two do not define the Creationism movement. Further, I still do not know of any Creationist organization that promotes teaching Biblical Creationism in public schools. The problem with teaching evolution as true in public schools has much to do with teaching kids that their religion is mythical, unknowable, or downright false. The fact that I’ve seen enough to KNOW that Evolution has no legs means that this is a breach of the “establishment clause”. I do not promote Intelligent Design, but Biblical Creationism, which is the only way to approach logic, science, reason, morality, and existence without becoming vain in any.
“… It’s 2010 still, remember, and you are complaining that you don’t know what her presidential policies are.”
No, I’m asking why you guys support her if you can’t name a single thing you believe she will do to justify that support. If you can’t do that, then what is your support based on? It’s one thing to think that somebody is worth a hearing just because you like the cut of their jib, or because they’re from the right side of politics, but some of you guys are already ranking her above other conservative candidates. That’s pretty certain. It LOOKS like you just see it as a horse-race or something. Is this level of unswerving support really because you just think she’s the right sort? Is it really just because of what she “stands for”? Because I seem to recall that your side of politics tried to hammer obama on that score.
“Matthew, that link you gave is about one teacher”
I can provide more. I can point to the kansas school board case, for example – that was a clear case of conservative christians trying to push evolution off the curriculum. You said there were NO creationists who backed that position. I only had to provide one to show that isn’t true. How many would you like?
“And you know what, I agree with him.”
Ok, so when you said “there are zero creationists, that I know of, who endorse the elimination of teaching evolution”, what was that?
“However, we two do not define the Creationism movement.”
Actually, I think you do. At least that’s the historical case. These days the attempt has to be finessed a bit better to try to get it past the courts.
“Further, I still do not know of any Creationist organization that promotes teaching Biblical Creationism in public schools.”
I do. From the “answers in genesis” web site:
“The problem with teaching evolution as true in public schools has much to do with teaching kids that their religion is mythical, unknowable, or downright false.”
You know, that might not be a problem with evolution. I think you’ll find that geology, astronomy, biology and archeology all do a fair bit of damage to the abrahamic traditions as well. It’s up to you whether you adapt your religious beliefs to fit with measurable reality, but it can’t work the other way around.
“The fact that I’ve seen enough to KNOW that Evolution has no legs means that this is a breach of the “establishment clause””
Are there any other branches of science that breach the first amendment? How’s physics looking? I’m curious to hear what evidence has convinced you that evolution is false.
“I do not promote Intelligent Design, but Biblical Creationism, which is the only way to approach logic, science, reason, morality, and existence without becoming vain in any.”
So what was that business about just wanting fair criticism to be taught?
“I’m asking why you guys support her if you can’t name a single thing you believe she will do to justify that support.” Well, before you were asking for a specific policy, and now it is “a single thing”. Since you’ve reworked your qualifier I can tell you I support her because she believes in the America I believe in, and I trust her to do what’s right in that regard.
Also, I explained why I thought she hasn’t revealed any specific policy. It’s too early and it would be disrespectful of the position of president.
As to your rebuttals to my creation comments I will say only this. It is possible to agree with someone, yet not promote them. I DO agree that Evolution is a waste of time and probably has a negative impact on morality, etc, but I realize it is not realistic to promote abolishing it completely from school curriculum. I DO believe if people were taught the critiques of molecules-to-men evolution they would eventually reject it, like I have. I happen to use Answers-in-Genesis (dot org) as a primary resource for Creationism, and I do not believe they endorse teaching Biblical Creation in public schools. You referenced a poll. My position on education and how to resolve all these discrepancies is simple, vouchers for everyone.
KevinB
“Since you’ve reworked your qualifier”
A fair observation, but I’m still just interested to hear what her supporters believe she would do. Anything specific at all. I’ve now been asking for several days and I haven’t had a response. You forget that’s already been a governor – she’s already campaigned in the past. She ran for vice president. And that doesn’t leave anyone with any expectations? At all?
“I can tell you I support her because she believes in the America I believe in, and I trust her to do what’s right in that regard.”
That’s basically the impression I’ve been getting about her supporters ever since she was nominated back in 2008. You’ve carefully left out any specifics there, so I have to take a risk and fill in some gaps for myself, but would I be entirely unreasonable in assuming that the america you believe in is essentially a protestant christian conservative one?
“Also, I explained why I thought she hasn’t revealed any specific policy. It’s too early and it would be disrespectful of the position of president.”
If she’s going to criticize the president and make up claims like her “death panel” gem, I don’t think it’s any more disrespectful to say what she’d do differently. In fact, I think it’s dishonest to do otherwise.
I’m going to skip the discussion about evolution, or this is going to get very long. I think you’re selling an awful lot of scientists short. Are you suggesting that the people who develop medical treatments are fundamentally wrong because they just don’t understand the details? All of those people are fundamentally mistaken because they just haven’t heard what ken ham has to say?
“I happen to use Answers-in-Genesis (dot org) as a primary resource for Creationism, and I do not believe they endorse teaching Biblical Creation in public schools.”
I think they do. Obviously they (like everyone) have to pick the fights they can win, but there’s not much doubt about what the staff thinks:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2004/1201debate.asp
“My position on education and how to resolve all these discrepancies is simple, vouchers for everyone.”
Just do away with public schools entirely, then? That’s one way to do it
To everything there’s a time, and right now it isn’t the time for any of that discussion. Other things are far more important to set first, and then specific policy details will follow well down the road.
You don’t seem to know/understand a thing about US presidential campaigns.
Take a hike, mate.
“A time to heal and a time to kill”
You have an interesting way of introducing yourself. Is that really how you see palin’s candidacy?
“To everything there’s a time, and right now it isn’t the time for any of that discussion. Other things are far more important to set first,”
Like?
“and then specific policy details will follow well down the road.”
See my previous comment. If you don’t know what she’ll do then how can you support her?
Obama was very clear about what he wanted to do. You have to give him that.
what a giant lie
I don’t give thim that
he never said one thing about what he would do in the campaign (that was Hillary)
every single time he spoke, did say mostly NOTHING!~!! except BUSH IS BAD, I will undo BUSH Reps suck I will beat the REPS Change I will change!! to what he never said
Hope (wishing and hopin’ for what? dream of his father? an Islamic socialist utopian Africa?
NOTHING not one policy idea did he mention
nothing zip nada zilch zero bupkes
Obama was clear about his goals? no empty suit, then and now. I amthe anti Bush and he still holds tothat same line of crap whenever he in a big #FAIL (most of the time)
Those are all things that obama promised. You might disagree with them, and he might have failed on a couple, but he DID promise them.
Well, here’s some “backward” and unsophisticated conservative propaganda back atcha — and guess what, it works better than your modern garbage.
Like Obama’s Ionic columns?
I dunno. Obambus made great use of static icons, his tri-color head, his circular logo. And the Internet to raise untraceable funds.
Maybe Palin should whistle-stop across the country, better than being gropped at fifty airports (though less so on her own private planes, of course).
I dunno. Bob Dole’s “bridge to the past” was a bust. Obama trying to go back before Bush isn’t convincing anyone. MoveOn’s ads are self-indulgent, not trying to convince new people, the left is nothing if not insular.
Im just fine with a Palin/West ticket but lets not rule out a Palin/Rubio ticket
The Six Pillars of Sarah Palin’s Politics per “The Faith and Values of Sarah Palin” by Stephen Mansfield & David A. Holland
1) Those unwilling to surrender power are not worthy to have power.
2) The measure of good government is the good of the people.
3) Constitutions are covenants between the government and the governed. Without them there is no legitimate political power.
4) Private industry is of value, but private industry tethered to government is fascism.
5) Public service is a privilege to be honored, not a luxury to be enjoyed.
6) Tell the people the truth, and justice will result.
“Shouldn’t we be using retro propaganda techniques to promote a retro ideology?”
No. We should just stick with the truth. The truth is that the government that governs least, governs best (c.f., Thomas Jefferson and, in afterthought, Ralph Waldo Emerson).
The older I get, the more I absolutely agree with this axiom.
Palin/Prager
Coolidge/Cleveland !!!
Okay, maybe that’s a little too retro, but it works for me!
Just on the down’s syndrome point …
I applaud sarah palin for taking the decision she did. She knowingly took on a serious task.
However …
Raising a child with down’s syndrome or severe autism is a huge undertaking. Yes, yes, I know, every child is a blessing and all, but these are kids who need huge investments of effort, money and time. Sarah palin has resources – lots of them. Not everybody has those resources. A lot of people simply don’t have the money and time they will need to give that child a happy and/or fulfilling life, let alone meet their obligations to the rest of their children. If a mother decides, based on the evidence, that giving birth to a disabled child would cause serious chaos and disadvantage to the rest of her family, then I don’t think we should be calling her a narcissist or a hypocrite. I think it should be a choice, and we ought to respect it. You can disagree, but sheesh – I suggest walking in the moccassins for a bit before judging.
Nature aborts a heck of a lot of human pregnancies spontaneously. I really just can’t see how it’s beyond the pale to have the option to do what the human body does randomly and naturally anyway. It’s a tough decision, sure. I don’t think anyone doubts that. My one preference is “the earlier the better”. Nobody is “pro-abortion”. Nobody thinks late abortions are anything less than horrific. But women don’t make those decisions just for a laugh.
A main point for the public to understand about Sarah Palin having her down syndrome child is that she walks the walk. She has revealed a solid instance of integrity of character. She doesn’t seek to justify her flesh against the apparent convictions of faith she keeps even in things most trying. She says she is a Christian and she does what Christians do, and this is significant because Jesus said you are my disciple if you obey me. (Contrast this with Barack Obama, also a Christian, saying that he wouldn’t want his daughter punished with a baby.) Now, you might think that I am indirectly condemning any Christian who has aborted a down syndrome baby in the process, but actually I am simply and only commending Mrs. Palin for being true to her most difficult convictions. Christians know that God is merciful, and that even sinners who earnestly repent will be saved by God, but there are some on earth who are standouts. These people we are wise to allow to have leadership roles in the nation.
Utilitarians on PJM. Imagine that.
When push comes to shove, we’re all utilitarians. If she wasn’t one, palin would still be governing alaska.
Zombie: You are so unsettled that you’re away off the mark. There is nothing romantic oror nostalgic or utopian about Palin and most of PJM’s audience are enthusiastically “retro” when it comes to the Constitution, free enterprise and less government. She is as hard-nosed and pragmatic as they come.
Palin baffles the professional politicians, commentators, journolists, and over-schooled liberals and a lot of ordinary folk as well because she is that rarest of all public figures: a totally honest, straight-talking, high performer who entered politics, not because of personal ambition or search of power or wealth, but but because she felt an obligation to stand up to corruption in government. She is doing exactly what she said she was going to do: exert the strength of her convictions and her skills in rhetoric from outside the party orgnization, because she has deep experience of elitism and malfeasance within the GOP.
She’s found the niche she wanted: gadfly and king-maker, doing it well, making more money than she ever hoped to, working with a talented team, and having a lot of fun driving the Reds in blue clothing into a foaming frenzy. She will never run for President; she would detest the job and leaving Alaska. Why should she? She can help pick and elect the next President, continue to live in Alaska, speaking and selling books. and enjoying a helluva lot better income than the Prez. Hey, just look at how Al Gore, the born loser, has made out.
It’s a religion. It really is.
Palin’s lack of demagoguery and an intellectual agenda would make her a good President. An administrative attitude and simple common sense can fix a lot of America’s problems. What to do about the worship of multiculturalism and diversity which helped cause 9/11 and has tensed this country up is another issue. I want all illegals out and all immigration stopped in recognition of the population explosion coming from the most worthless countries on the face of this earth. Not nice but true. I’ve spent 2 years in Latin America, a year in SE Asia and almost a year in Turkey and Egypt and months in Europe and India. Nice people in almost all instances but ideological nuthatches and/or incompetents. “Crumbling” would be the most all inclusive word I could use for the Third World, even in this modern era. It just don’t work and people are barely hanging on. We don’t want their foolishness in America to “cure” endemic white racists and imperialists. Heaven help us cuz we won’t help ourselves when it comes to the murderous combination at the worst time in our history for diversity and Third World baby boomers.
Mathew, I suggest that you pay closer attention. One thing I’m positive that Palin would do would be to implement a domestic energy policy that would remove our dependence on foreign oil. One that would spur domestic production and with it, the economy.
As for all of the ignorant liberal “fears” that Palin would harbor in all types of “religious” strictures, one need only research her Executive record to see how she governs. But of course the Left, while pontificating on their intelligence, belie the claim by their lack of research. Problems with reading the written word?
She is a strict Constitutionalist in her decision making, despite any personal beliefs that guide her personal life. You see, she has honor and integrity in her service.
For instance, her first veto as Governor was against a law put forth by the Alaskan Legislature that denied same sex partners of State employees insurance coverage. She, and her legal team, determined that the law was unconstitutional. She vetoed it and same sex partners now receive coverage.
A testament to the inherent stupidity of the Left are the ridiculous “fears” that they promulgate would be the result of a Palin Presidency, and the BELIEF that those fears are valid. What a vapid, ignorant base they truly have. This is why the Left are the resorters of violence. Ignorant, uneducated people always resort to it
Zombie, you are on target with the premise of modern communication techniques. Obama used it, with much help of his advisors/writers, to get the attention of the youngest voters. It was a major campaign tool and focus.
Older voters aren’t so tech savvy, and need to be approached in an older fashion; Newsprint, and TV. The Obama Regime was successful in manipulating the narrative of these mediums, and pulled off a coup.
Communication, is the foundation of the game, not necessarily the message. Look at how many times Obama changed his message during his campaign.
Sarah stands at the Bridge of Khazad-Dum, facing the Statist Behemoth….
YOU…SHALL…NOT…PASS!!!!
http://teamsarah.ning.com/photo/obamavspalin-1?context=user
How about the peasant freedom fighter Sarahcuda of the 22nd Wasilla Guards bundled up for winter with her PPsh-41 submachinegun, a chunk of caribou jerky in her chaw, on the back of a T-34 rolling over the snowy frozen cornfield of Iowa, heading for the town of Polk City to link up with the 1st C4P Parachute Regiment to seize the important NW 112th St. Bridge, cutting off escape for the last desperate remnants of the Romney Fascists holed up in the statehouse in Des Moines.
Posterize it! It would be a winner. Hell, make a video game FPS.
“Call of Duty X: Iowa Caucus 2012″
http://www.anagramgenius.com/archive/president-palin.html
Zombie is spot on in suggesting a revival of classic poster propaganda—not merely because of its retro charm and the consistency of selling “old-fashioned” ideals with “old-fashioned” techniques, but because they work.
One of the signal successes of the Obama campaign was the brilliance of its graphics; the clear Gill Sans font used in dropout on all the “official” hope and change posters, the hundreds of variants on stickers and window cards and the like (mix ‘em! match ‘em! collect the whole set!), the ubiquity of these items, which made Obama support seem much more widespread than it was, etc., etc.—all over and above that iconic Shepard Fairey poster. The McCain campaign, by comparison, had few graphics, all clunky, which it doled out like a miser being asked to fund the town picnic.
The art of the well-done propaganda poster is all but lost, but numerous examples from the turn of the century on offer excellent reference. During WWII, there were posters not only for bonds, but for scrap drives, for workplace safety and production, for saving essential materiel, etc., etc.—all of them masterful persuaders produced by artists and propagandists at the top of their game. It is time to revisit and re-examine this neglected art, and recycle its persuasiveness to win the future.
hahaha, wow. Not just black people listen to hip hop and rap. I love all the underground hip hop coming out of my home city like P.O.S. and Atmosphere, and im white and scored a 1380. Sometimes a study is just conducted to show interesting correlations, obviously not to say everyone who listens to Lil Wayne is a moron, just to explore a trend that exists in our society.