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To be honest, this whole thing is coordinated. The leak, the opportunity for outrage, the opportunity to gloss over the outrage, and now it's out in the open w
by wavefunction 13y ago
To be honest, this whole thing is coordinated. The leak, the opportunity for outrage, the opportunity to gloss over the outrage, and now it's out in the open where the politicians and CEOs don't have to face real outrage.
True theater!!!
- krapp 13y agoIf they were truly that powerful and organized, wouldn't they have rather just not orchestrated the leak to begin with?
- wavefunction 13y agoIf it's going to come out eventually, why not control the leak? PR 101, mang
- krapp 13y agoBut they're not controlling anything, they're just doing now what they would be doing if the leak had been real, assuming it was orchestrated. They would've done a better job letting everyone stay distracted by all the other crap being dropped on Obama's head right now.
- wavefunction 13y agoNow they can say "what police state," everybody already knows about it!!! :P
- leoc 13y agoNot necessarily: you could for example throw in red herrings and disinformation along with whatever facts you're disclosing. The "limited hangout" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout is apparently a real thing, though of course once you've heard of them it's easy to start imagining them where they don't exist.