http://freeinquiryforum.com/2008/09/10/stupid-lipstick-hysteria/ Topics, Events, and News for Free Inquiry Forum Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:03:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://freeinquiryforum.com/2008/09/10/stupid-lipstick-hysteria/comment-page-1/#comment-1558 Jack Bethune Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:18:59 +0000 http://freeinquiryforum.com/?p=321#comment-1558 There's a simple explanation behind this and other trivial, hyped-up news topics. Every day that Republicans can keep public debate focused on "fake fouls" such as "lipstick," rather than on voters' real issues, is another day closer to the election without having to discuss the sorry state of the country, or to defend Republican failures at home and abroad. Republican campaign strategists are delighted to keep the newspapers and airwaves alive with phony outrages and mock indignations over lipstick and any other insignificant or cynically manufactured topic, so that public attention can be diverted from Republican incompetence while running out the clock on their Democratic opponents, who are trying to alert the public not to vote for four more years of the same. See how easy it is to understand what's happening? There’s a simple explanation behind this and other trivial, hyped-up news topics. Every day that Republicans can keep public debate focused on “fake fouls” such as “lipstick,” rather than on voters’ real issues, is another day closer to the election without having to discuss the sorry state of the country, or to defend Republican failures at home and abroad. Republican campaign strategists are delighted to keep the newspapers and airwaves alive with phony outrages and mock indignations over lipstick and any other insignificant or cynically manufactured topic, so that public attention can be diverted from Republican incompetence while running out the clock on their Democratic opponents, who are trying to alert the public not to vote for four more years of the same. See how easy it is to understand what’s happening?

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