It’s interesting to watch the ultra-right-wing Heritage Foundation, through its media arm The Daily Signal, use PR to forward its messages. They start off with the same framework that we all use:
Find a piece of breaking news that has some conceivable relation to the story you’d like to deliver to your audience, and then write something that connects the two. The challenge: make sure the relationship between the news and your message isn’t so far-fetched that you look like a fool, which is precisely what has happened in the case below.
Here’s the connection that the Daily Signal makes in this piece:
News: Cargo ship crashes into bridge in Baltimore
Message: If U.S. maritime regulators weren’t distracted by the radical left’s concern for climate change mitigation, this wouldn’t have happened.
Now, does this sound like utter crap to you? Probably, but that’s because you’re not a regular consumer of this garbage, and you don’t have an appetite for “information” that is written only because it supports your political points of view.
Isn’t it astonishing we have people eligible to vote do not even register?
There was a time in U.S. history when the two parties were fairly close to one another politically, and so perhaps in those days, voter apathy could have been excused.
But now we have one entire party idolizing a criminal sociopath, while spreading torrents of disinformation.
At left is a photo of Steve Allen, an American personality whose television career spanned several decades in 20th Century. Young people who missed him may want to check him out on YouTube via the link above.
His blend of wit and intelligence is a reminder of who and what this country was–up until quite recently.
Try to imagine how Donald Trump would have been regarded in era of this type of quality education and sophistication. Think of how the American people would respond to the idea that liberals are leading our country into communism.
Sometimes my eyes well up with tears when I think about our nation’s devolution into hatred and ignorance.
At left is one of the dozens of reasons that we need to get rid of Trump immediately.
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