[CitizensTruth] noise machine [was: ...Supreme Court deliberates Obama Citizenship...]

[Hal Snyder]

Present challenges to Obama's citizenship have a lot in common with  
classic noise machine / echo chamber attacks. See David Brock's "The  
Republican Noise Machine" or the recent bio of Lee Atwater on PBS.

The objective of a Noise Machine attack is not so much to win the  
argument at hand, as to spread a damaging story as far as it will go.  
It starts on the fringes with the likes of Corsi and the freepers.  
 From there the next stop is Drudge and/or WorldNetDaily, then on to  
Limbaugh and the shock jocks, then Fox (not sure this issue is going  
that far), and finally the so-called main stream.

The goal is to undermine the popular mandate and derail progressive  
initiatives by means of distraction and character assassination. The  
more the story is echoed, the more it chews away at its target. As  
Naomi Klein points out, it's not just the message that matters, it's  
the amplification.


On Dec 5, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Edward Rynearson wrote:


> Supreme Court today deliberates suit blocking Obama presidency

> It may come as something of a shock to those millions planning  

> trips to Washington for the Jan. 20 inauguration of President-elect  

> Barack Obama that he isn't really legally capable of taking the oath.

>

> It's the birth certificate thing.

>

> That's because he was born in Kenya to an alien father and isn't a  

> natural-born American as the Constitution requires and the copy of  

> his Hawaii birth certificate looks fake to many and the state won't  

> release the original, which makes everything that much more  

> suspicious.

>

> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/12/obama-birth- 

> cer.html

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