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Ways Bush Critics Hurt Themselves: Chapter One
"He said, "PROPAGANDA!"

All manner of Progressive and Left-wing blogs and commentary are hot on the accusation that President Bush admitted to using propaganda, specifically on the topic of Social Security.

Let this blog be one to categorically deny that accusation.

This whole nonsense comes from a speech he gave at the Greece Athena Middle and High School in Greece, New York. The transcript of his speech is archived here: President Participates in Social Security Conversation in New York

If you check the transcript you will find that he did, in fact, use the phrase, "...catapult the propaganda". However, it's clear that he didn't mean to say, "I am catapulting propaganda!" He was stating that he often repeats his statements to "catapult the propaganda" (supposedly, of the opponents of his social security plan).

Agreed, catapulting propaganda is an odd metaphor, and I'd bet Bush really wanted to use the words "reject the propaganda," which he probably remembered as "eject the propaganda," and finally verbalized as "catapult the propaganda."

But the more time we spend pretending that the President admitted to using propaganda on the public, the less time we spend uncovering the actual propagation of disinformation he has laid upon the US.

Let's face it, an administration that won't even admit to any mistake made in its first term isn't likely to admit to using propaganda.

This doesn't mean that mistakes and propaganda never occurred. Let's just not hang our reputations on false admissions- Bush and his team are champions at denying small bits of a whole swath of accusations, and then acting like all the accusations have been disproven.

They've used Dan Rather's false memo to whitewash Bush's entire (missing) military obligations, and an unsubstantiated story about a flushed Koran to justify any and all detainee interrogation practices.

So, as true propaganda is unearthed and attributed to him and his administration, Bush will simply say, "Check the transcript- I never said I use propaganda. Next question!"

Note to Progressives: Drop the Propaganda semantics. There are bigger fish to fry.