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GOP Master Plan Revealed! By Bidisha Banerjee Posted Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005, at 5:12 PM PT
The Anarchist Cookbook, GOP edition: Republican spin doctor Frank Luntz examines the lessons learned from last year's GOP victory in a playbook that the "non-partisan research and educational institute" Center for American Progress is dissecting in a series of blog posts. (You can download the entire 160-page book as a Zip file here.) "It's probably the only thing that couldn't be found on the internet...until now," gushes a commentator at liberal blog Political Strategy. Another outraged left-wing blogger calls the book "How to Lie and Win," while yet another says "[I]t's like reading 1984. He literally tells you how to use words to manipulate people into being in favor of stuff that does them harm!" (As of late this afternoon, conservative bloggers haven't started to respond.)
Daily Kos's reliably Democratic Markos Moulitsas has been pushing the story. Today, he quotes from the Center for American Progress's blog: "Luntz advises conservatives to 'resist the temptation' to use facts and figures about the economy. Š Instead, he advises, you can't go wrong if you continuosly remind people about the terrorist attacks of 9/11."