Some German guy advised: "All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to."
That worked well for the Germans, the Russians and the Republicans. The Democrats, however, still think that a scientist can do a better job of explaining the treat of global warming and so they tend to fail in their attempts to draw attention to a long beautifully written article in some academic journal.
If the Republicans, on the other hand, wanted to use the Global Warming issue to win elections they would just quietly state their case by directing the attention of the "limited intelligence" voters to the current spate of news coverage of the barren ski areas that are desperately trying to cope with a lack of snow and skiers.
The so called Liberal media (that is usually owned and operated by a conservative billionaire) may not run too many stories about the desperate ski areas as a sort of "interline courtesy" gesture among the wealthy who are unanimous Global Warming deniers.
The pundits assessment of the results of the Iowa Caucuses made us wonder if the people, who are rumored to be preparing a new roster of actors for a fresh installment of the Three Stooges comedy franchise, could possibly pay for a weekly (or daily?) half hour of cable TV political commentary featuring their new trio of sincere but bumbling fellows.
They would be able to approach the Republican Primary Elections with a credible "we could do that" voice. Perhaps they could inject some sound effects and "nyuck, nyuck" laught track bytes? Can't you just imagine a Stooge voice saying "Listen, numbskulls . . ." before they play a sound byte of the Newtster denigrating his opponents?
That, in turn, caused us to wonder why a diabolically clever Republican candidate did not hire the writer Tom Wolfe to come along on the campaign bus in
Wouldn't a modernized road trip through Iowa with a Republican President wannabe be a very slick way to present the older business man as a palatable choice to the young voters who have made Jack Kerouac a member of the Rebel's Holy Trinity (along with Elvis and James Dean)?
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