re: #10 makeitstop

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.