re: #21 Fozzie Bear

It doesn’t have to be orchestrated or organized. If you are a GOP-aligned pundit, after all that has happened lately, your goal isn’t to spread knowledge, it’s to disseminate gut feelings as far and wide as you possibly can.

Every one of those pundits knows a winning propaganda putsch when they see it, because that’s their business. When it is discredited widely, they will attack the persons attempting to discredit this meme with accusations that they themselves espouse Hoffa’s purported message of violence. When and if they are caught doing so, they will claim the mantle of the oppressed victim, say that their first amendment rights are being violated, and accuse those who expose them as frauds of being “jack booted thugs”, “Obama’s henchmen”, and “union sympathizers”.

It’s not that they are following a script, because they aren’t. They are applying a technique.

Great post. That’s a very succinct summary of every one of thee media ‘outrages.’

Still, I have to wonder about the Breitbart - Fox affiliation. The combination of Breitbart-style deceptively edited video with Fox’ reach and viewership is pretty frightening. They could say whatever they want and get a meme started it record time. They could do it every day if they wanted to.