Big Ed just threw Heritage Foundation flack, Ryan Anderson off his show for

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55. Thank you, Jack Rabbit!

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I actually meant little as in "little boy." He seemed like a still-wet-behind-the-ears adult-size child to me, but then I'm almost 62 and just about everybody seems like a little kid to me from this vantage point!

I first started wondering about this when I heard christie todd whitman on some news show during the horrible period in which the agonizing bush v Gore battle was going on. There were these "Chatty Cathy" talking points that I kept hearing again and again and again. All evening. For several days. Hmmm... that's kinda weird. They're all saying the same thing. I mean - THE SAME THING. Verbatim! 'Well, they counted once, they counted again, they counted a third time, and ... " They all keep saying the same thing. The same phrases. The same wording. Anybody else notice? Nobody else is commenting on it. CNN hasn't said anything about that. NBC or the other networks didn't seem to notice either and Pox? Meh, I don't even bother with them. I know what they are (WHORES). christie todd whitman was saying the same damn thing some other guy said about six minutes earlier, interviewed by a different reporter covering a different aspect of the story from a different locale. Same GOP talking point.

We started hearing about blast-faxes and speed dialing and pasteurized-process cheese food product that EVERY GOP operative received, that media people were being sent from the RNC and other operatives, "helping" the media to cover the story. It just became very suspicious to me. This is too much coincidence. And eventually, we all learned, slowly but surely, that it was true. This was exactly what they were doing. Massaging and manipulating the news coverage to get exactly the tone and feel and edge to the story that THEY wanted. What they wanted to make you think. You weren't even made to think. You were guided toward it with invisible gloves, worn quite often by a pretty blonde like some News Vanna White. You half expected them to start stroking the table-top to show off the merchandise down here on the display floor. Heck, they pulled all kinds of stuff during bush/cheney, but that's a whole 'nother conversation.

I bet they're still schooling 'em. I bet this guy was coached. There was another GOP motormouth who was on a few weeks ago who wouldn't shut up for love nor money (well, I take that back - maybe for money) and just talked over everybody throughout the entire segment. This pipsqueak today was just the latest version. This rudeness, interruption, talking over another guest or the opponent, butting in on somebody else's time, the outrage thundered at high decibel levels, in one way or another aggressively controlling the conversation and the air time - is a technique - a tactic - that I keep seeing again and again. I've seen it so damn many times by now, particularly as bush/cheney took over but also during the Clinton era. It happened too frequently to be just a random bunch of coincidences. I got suspicious immediately.

Here, too. pence is still parroting the same lines over and over. He's counting on the sheer repetition, in and of itself, being enough to bore the message deep into the brain. Notice how long he took, gathering his papers at the podium, before he actually began to address the media people there. MAN sure did need those written talking points in front of him to make SURE he stayed on-message.

Somewhat off-topic - I also found the breathing thing odd. Anybody notice his breathing? His lavalier mic must have been too close to his face because it picked up this odd breathing throughout his appearance. Made me think of Darth Vader.