The following quotations are from “Take Them At Their Words,” by Bruce Miller and Diana Maio:
1]. “In 1990, then-Republican House Whip Newt Gingrich [later Speaker..] hired a pollster to devise a lexicon of demonization. In a memo Gingrich circulated, “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control,” Republicans were instructed that “words and phrases are powerful” and that the list that had been test-marketed should be “memorized.”
”Apply these to the opponent, their record, proposals and their party: decay…failure [fail]…collapse[ing]…deeper..
crisis…urgent[cy]…destructive…destroy…sick…pathetic…lie…liberal…they/them…unionized bureaucracy…”compassion”
is not enough…betray…consequences…limit[s]…shallow…traitors…sensationalists…endanger…coercion…hypocrisy…
radical…threaten…devour…waste…corruption…incompetent…permissive attitudes…destructive…impose…self-serving
…greed…ideological…insecure…anti[issue]: flag,family,child,jobs…pessimistic…excuses…intolerant…stagnation…welfare
…corrupt…selfish…insensitive…status quo…mandate[s]…taxes…spend[ing]…shame…disgrace…punish [poor..]…bizarre…
cynicism…cheat…steal…abuse of power…machine…bosses…obsolete…criminal rights…red tape…patronage”
note: reread this !!! ”test-marketed,” ”hired a pollster,” ‘A LEXICON OF DEMONIZATION,” you wonder why Congress is dysfunctional??? YOU wonder why there is so much division, and even hate? The Far Right PLANNED it 1
2]. “I w
ant you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good.” [Randall Terry, “Demagoguery in America,” ”The New Republic,” 8/1/94]
3] “Two things made this country great: White men & Christianity The degree these two ingredients have diminished is in direct proportion to the corruption and fall of the nation.” {State Rep. Don Davis [R-NC e-mail – “E-mail miffs legislators,” Fayetteville Observer, 8/22/01]
4] “The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. they should get a liquor store and practice robberies.” [Rush Limbaugh, Eric Alterman, “Little Limbaughs and the fire next time,” The Nation, 9/27/99]
5] ”Ideally, it would have been nice to have a few phalanxes of policemen with machine guns and mow them down.”
S[Talk Radio Host bob Grant, WABC, New York, discussing New York’s annual Gay Pride parade. Boston Globe, 4/29/95]
6]. “The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons. The Iraqi regime is building the facilities necessary to make more biological and chemical weapons.” [George W. Bush in the Rose Garden, 9/26/02. Dana Priest and Walter Pincus, “Bush Certainty on Iraq Arms Went Beyond Analysts’ Views,” Washington Post, 6/7/03]
7]. “Even fanatical Muslim terrorists don’t hate America like liberals do.” [Ann Coulter at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2002, Crystal City, VA. PFAW.org, 2/26/02]
8] ”I believe that the homeless people should essentially be put to sleep. they should. I don’t see any reason for them to exist. They are more of a burden than anything else.” [Emiliano Limon, talk radio host, KFI-AM, Los Angeles, 11/17/94]
9] ”I would eliminate the payroll tax and institute a national sales tax to cover Social Security and Medicare. the sales tax would slide depending on need…” [Bill O’Reilly, ”The No Spin Zone,” NY: Broadway Books, 2001, p. 175} {note: a
sales tax would be – IS – regressive, one more way the rich and corporations would escape ANY duty to help the less
fortunate than them; let alone whether this would even come close to funding necessary for the programs]
10] ”…but this tax cut, there is no tax cut that needs to be paid for. That, please shelve that. Please sweep that from your lexicon. Tax cuts do not need to be paid for. If, if, if any of you continue to look at tax cuts that way you may as well be under the Svengali mind-control of the Democrats. Tax cuts don’t need to be paid for…” [Rush Limbaugh, 5/23/03}
[note !!!: this is FALSE. – think – if this was true, then we’d need no taxes!!! the tax cuts of Reagan, Bush II, and
Trump are being paid for – in a variety of ways – the U.S. national debt has exploded from the less than $1 trillion it was when Reagan took office, to now over $30 trillion – so we are WASTING hundreds of billions on interest EVERY year; WE pay for it in reduced services to Americans; YOUR taxes are higher – just so the Rich and corporations can escape taxes;
the 2017 Trump tax cut – for the rich and corporations was passed KNOWING IT WOULD BE DESTRUCTIVE….]
With Justice For All 