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November 04, 2005
Using the wackos
Speaking of Crooked Jack Abramoff, you may have seen this little quote which, if the media really cared about scoops, would be headline material (this is from a memo by Abramoff aide Michael Scanlon):
"The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees," Scanlon wrote in the memo, which was read into the public record at a hearing of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. "Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them." The brilliance of this strategy was twofold: Not only would most voters not know about an initiative to protect Coushatta gambling revenues, but religious "wackos" could be tricked into supporting gambling at the Coushatta casino even as they thought they were opposing it.
They hate them for their wacko-dom.
Posted By John Christian Plummer | November 4, 2005 02:21 PM | DIGG ME!
