Gestetner Updates

(Audio Below) Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said Thursday “If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party because they have an incredible propaganda machine.” The freshman Republican, whose district is heavily Jewish, said his reference to Goebbels is about propaganda in general and not to say that Democrats are Nazis.

As a grandson of Holocaust survivors who lost relatives to the Nazi machine; and as someone who has read a lot about Nazi leaders and more so about Goebbels, I must admit that West has a point and it is best practiced by Congresswoman and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz who herself is Jewish!

Before you write me off as being bombastic, let me discus some of the Goebbels Rules and Tactics: Propaganda points must be such that is can easily be learned and utilized again and again. Its themes must be repeated; it must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans, and it must reinforce anxiety.

When you ask Schultz why the economy has now 132 million private sector jobs instead of the 137 million jobs Obama’s team projected before being inaugurated that we will have by the end of 2010, DWS keeps repeating again and again and again that Obama came into office with 700,000 jobs being lost a month. It’s a line that every Democrat can repeat despite the fact that it does not answer the question. Schulz will say with a straight face that Republicans want to kill you, exactly the words Democrats use for decades. Why do Democrats use it so much and for so long? Because people keep buying it again and again; and it also paints the “enemy” in a distinctive way in addition to reinforce anxiety among the masses: Exactly how Goebbels would – among others – tackle his PR issues.

So, comparing just a few of the tactics used by Goebbels to the ones used by the Democrat’s chief propagandist Schultz, it is Kosher to say that yes. Alan West has a point!