Politicritique: Does The President Watch Glenn Beck?

10.02.2010

Does The President Watch Glenn Beck?

OK, I had to laugh...the "White House Whiteboard?" Now anyone familiar with the Glenn Beck show on Fox News has seen Glenn Beck use a chalkboard to illustrate his point. (I think Glenn Beck is using actual chalk, not these environmentally caustic marker pens the White House is using.) Umm...this whiteboard thing looks like a cheap rip-off of the Glenn Beck show. But hey, if you can't beat'em, copy'em, right?

But on a more serious note, why should I trust a politician's visual explanation of perceived truth? After all, this is politics and these are politicians, and now we have a visual of what "politi-myth-matic" actually looks like. At the end of the day, the mixture of politicians and truth hasn't been doing so well, but, politicians and propaganda have.

Here is the reason why I don't believe a word of what the White House is saying. The reason is in the difference between propaganda and education. Propaganda tells me what to think. Education teaches me how to think. This picture is telling me what to think. This is nothing more than a classic picture of political propaganda.

Update...

The Heritage Foundation did an excellent job at slicing and dicing the propaganda.

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First of all, welcome to Politicritique. My name is Matthew, and I am the founder of this blog. I am a young conservative American in my early thirties, with a small family, enjoying my American Dream. Eleven years ago, I co-founded a small business and watched it become very successful. I know what it is like to start with nothing, work hard, and be rewarded with the fruits of my labor. To say the least, and without apology, I am 110% Capitalist, and I am enthralled with my individual liberty. I don't care what Michael Moore says. (I don't think a lot of people care either.)

Now until the second Bush administration, I was disinterested in politics (sorry, but I am not a big fan of some Bush policies - Mr. Fiscal-Stupidity). I had trusted our politicians to do their jobs, with the same meticulous excellence, I myself put into my business. I had thought our politicians were working for the American People, like I was working for my customers. I had thought when our politicians placed their hands on the Bible, swore an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution, they would keep their word and perform their duties with integrity. I had thought that our politicians, understanding they represent us the people (our form of Democracy is a Republic), would conform their will to ours. Call me naive, but unfortunately, the hard and disgusting reality is that what I thought, and maybe what used to be, has experienced “Change.” What irony, that in some perverted and twisted sense, politicians are keeping their word and giving us what they said they would, “Change.”

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How about you? What are you doing? Have you fallen into the snare of depression and fear that the “Change We Can All Hope In” has brought? Have you found the “Audacity” to rise above the media, the ACORN wing-nuts, and the illogical pontificating of many of our politicians? Don’t forget, America has come through some dark times in the past, so let’s repeat that part of our history. America, roll up your sleeves and get involved; let’s help this giant flex it’s muscle!

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