Conspiracy Theories

Somebody needs to sit the Republican smear machine technicians down and reacquaint them with the proper application of the "One Big Lie" propaganda technique. The best way to discredit a person or group through the use of smears is to invent a scenario, which while patently false cannot be disproved. You invent a chronology, complete with motivation, perpetration and goal. Then you tell the story, exactly the same way, over and over again. You tell it using as many sources as you can, through whatever different mediums you can and never let up. Eventually, the outlandish lie begins to become the truth. People begin to assume that something so many different people have said, over such a long period of time, must have some basis in truth and if there is some truth to it, maybe all of it is true. Once enough people start to give the big lie some credence, others begin to believe it's true. In the end, the target of the one big lie is ruined and even historians condemn them. This is a technique that works.

Barry Obama has been subjected, over the last several months to a vast array of conflicting accusations. According to the stories, some in the media but primarily on the Internet, he is an agent of Islamic terrorism, the Afro centric black church, wealthy corporate interests, the Weather underground, or Kenyan Luo nationalists. His culpability ranges from being groomed for evil purposes from the time he was born, in either Africa, Hawaii, or the mainland US, to casual corruption for money, just in the last few years. He is purported to be everything from an Islamic fundamentalist to a Marxist ideologue to an agent of the capitalist overlords. The entities providing him funding for his rise to prominence have peen presented as variously any number of Islamic nations and terrorist organizations, the Black Muslim Church, the World Communist conspiracy, a pan African political cabal, American organized crime or George Soros. We are asked to believe that none of these evil masters has yet asked anything of him but knew all along, in some cases decades ago, that he would become the President of the United States. The point is that these scenarios are all so wildly divergent that they are mutually exclusive. All but one must be blatant lies. Since, so far, there is no evidence to support any of them, nobody, even the most twisted reactionary wing nuts, believe any of them.

The campaign of smears against Barack Obama has not been effective. There are too many conflicting stories that come from the same overtly partisan sources. There are too many different motivations, too many subversive activities supposedly engaged in and too many evil masters being served. We are left not knowing if Barack's motivations for treason are religious, political, racial or just for money.

If it were me, I would have kept the story much simpler and closer to the actual truth. I don't want to go into an actual storyline, it might end up all over the internet.