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President as Pet Rock. The Bush brand didn't outsell the Gore brand — it just had better (and much more expensive) packaging to attract your average Wal-Mart customer, says Digby. The deceptive tactics of marketing are now married to the deceptive tactics of corrupt CEOs and the deceptive tactics of Republican political strategy:

The Bush administration, then, really is the political equivalent of Enron. Ken Lay and George W. Bush and Karl Rove and Andrew Fastow and Jeff Skilling and Dick Cheney are all cut from the same cloth.

And what stingy, threadbare, conformist crap that cloth turns out to be.

But walking in lockstep comes naturally to the right. The larger problem is organizing people who celebrate diversity and nonconformity in thought and styles of self-expression. That is, Democrats with a capital D.

After the debacle of the midterm congressional elections last November, I had plenty of similar thoughts. But how will we get where we need to go while we're immersed in Republican-compliant media? I agree with the commenter at Digby's Hullabaloo who said that if the Bush administration is the political equivalent of Enron, then the press is Arthur Andersen.

The absence of a critically thinking mainstream American press is the void that all this blogging energy is meant to fill.

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