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political : SPIN VS PROPAGANDA

[+] serious ballot by Cathexis
ACTIVE Tue Aug 15, 06 - Sun Apr 06, 08
Politicians are always going to try to use rhetoric to their advantage, of course, and spin their accomplishments in the best possible light. But there is a tipping point at which debate becomes so divorced from reality that the spin becomes outright deception?

Yes, and we're at/past that point
Yes, but we're not there, yet
Yes, but we are nowhere near that point
No

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COMMENTS:
Be careful with your answers. Remember ... Dissent hates Freedom!

by Cathexis on Tue Aug 15, 06 7:32am [+]

Voted : Yes, and we're at/past that point
The "spinners" have become liars.

by thesoothsayer on Tue Aug 15, 06 7:57am [+]

Left or Right?

by xxxxxxxx on Tue Aug 15, 06 8:06am [+]

dazzle: I am worried that it makes a difference, in your view.

by Cathexis on Tue Aug 15, 06 8:08am [+]

I can't really answer a hypothetical for which no example is given.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Tue Aug 15, 06 11:50am [+]

Semantics, Mr. Cathexis. "Spin" and "Propaganda" are two names for the same phenomena. Anytime deliberate deception is used, it is both propaganda and immoral. So, welcome to American Politics.

by margaret123 on Tue Aug 15, 06 1:02pm [+]

Voted : Yes, and we're at/past that point
Somewhere, there's a rear-view mirror with enough magnification to see that point...

by Truthseeker013 on Tue Aug 15, 06 2:04pm [+]

marg: IMO, it is a continuum ... and it has been moving.

And no, I am unwilling to chalk it up to "that's politics." We get the 'politics' we accept and I, for one, am not going to be quiet about its continued devolution.

by Cathexis on Tue Aug 15, 06 4:46pm [+]

Voted : Yes, and we're at/past that point
China claiming 'activist beat himself up', Hezbollah claiming that Israel started the current conflict, Iran claiming its nuclear program is only for civillian purposes, Burma claiming that Aung San Suu Kyi is a terrorist, North Korea telling its population that it is supposedly more successful at raising the lifestyle of its people more so than South Korea, and of course Western leaders telling the developing world to liberalise their economies, while they themsleves have their own rigid protectionism that they refuse to negotiate on. Etc.

Indeed.

by xxxxxxxx on Tue Aug 15, 06 10:33pm [+]

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