Monday, February 21, 2005
Moronic Privatizers Using The Wookie Defense To Attack AARP
The "Swift Boat" liar advisors now working with the GOP privatization astroturf group USA Next have fired their first shot -- and it's the most unintentionally hilarious thing I've seen in ages. Will it work to fool some AARP members into leaving the group? I sincerely doubt it. To judge from the angry comments here, the AARP members are not fooled one bit -- and are already making countermeasures. For one thing, it has nothing to do with Social Security. Nothing. It's as if the USA Next/Swift Boat advisor clowns watched the Wookie Defense on South Park and took it seriously as a propaganda tactic. For another, they floated it in a conservative mag's website, not somewhere where the general public would be likely to see it. This way, they avoid having the "unprepared minds" see their strangeness, but it also means that we have been given a few days' head start on lampooning it and ripping it to shreds. (The first lampoon has already been posted at Kos. It's now been joined by this one, with others to follow.) These right-wing nutjobs are choking to death on their own hubris, and not a moment too soon.
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