Recipe for Disaster Success in Blog Traffic Presidential Elections
Here it is, y'all.
- Make shit up.
- Get your toadies to repeat it without question.
- Declare it a 'story'.
- If dissenters get in on the game, alter their statements without notice.
- Get your toadies' toadies to chime in with "it's everywhere, so it must be true!"
- Force enemy to expend energy fending off mindless toadies and toadies' toadies.
- Sit back and enjoy the mayhem, taking all credit and no blame.
- Before mayhem is over, lather-rinse-repeat before people have time to notice what you've done. Again.
Republicans, FoxNews or Blogging Nematodes? You decide.
Comments
And the mainstream news media can never seem to just say "Well that story is a complete lie." They have to be 'impartial' and give everybody equal coverage, (except for Fox News). Example- Swift Boat Liars- why wasn't there a big headline in the paper "Swift Boat Veterans are Liars"? I'm pretty sick of our so-called liberal media.
Posted by: homer | November 18, 2004 08:29 AM
"Force enemy to expend energy fending off mindless toadies and toadies' toadies"
A very effective strategy, isn't it? It works every time. I'm often dismayed by seeing how often "good" people fail to recognize the strategem and continue to take the bait.
Energy + time = life. When you give these toadies your time and energy you are allowing them to steal your life, one piece, one second, at a time. Do it long enough and they'll suck you dry. Which, of course, is their intention.
As Nietzsche wisely said, "If you're doing too much of one thing, you're not doing something else." The strategy caused people to spend themselves in useless fights for years, instead of devoting that energy toward creating something good.
Posted by: diana | November 21, 2004 01:25 AM