[lbo-talk] Stone behind Fontgate?

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Tue Sep 21 14:35:15 PDT 2004


The author of Favorite Son, Hatfield, said that he got his Bush cocane story from Rove.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 05:30:58PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> >That would make a lot of sense. The memos did not reveal anything we did
> >not know before, but they created an impression of Bush being "victimized"
> >by "liberal" media.
>
> It's quite clever - put out "fake" memos whose contents are
> fundamentally true, and when the docs themselves are revealed to be
> forgeries, it discredits the true content as well. The focus turns
> from signified to signifier.
>
> Doug
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