CHINESE WATER TORTURE: Talk about the TFR's fanatic views on morality and ethics until such topics as partial-birth abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, homosexuality and pornography become thoroughly tiresome.  The goal is to make Howard Stern more popular than Billy Graham.

PROMOTE LIES VIA THE MEDIA: Where we talk is important. The visual media, film and television, are plainly the most powerful image-makers in Western civilization. The average American household watches over seven hours of television daily. Those hours open a gate: the private world of unsuspecting consumers through which a Trojan horse might be passed.  Push sex and violence!  Give them Reality TV, sexy soaps, graphic crime scenes, Gangsta Rap, amoral athletes, Viagra ads, Howard Stern!  Push sexual freedom at any age!  Expected outcome: Because of TFR's moralistic preaching, society will consider them a bunch of religious loony birds.

VICTIMIZATION: Find excuses for the Left's "moral slip-ups" so that the American people will be inclined by reflex to assume the role of the protector. This tactic worked splendidly for Bill and Hillary Clinton (Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Dan Rather…).  Eventually the public began to view TFR as attack dogs and the Clintons as the victims.

CHARACTERIZATION OF RELIGIOUS MORAL VALUES AS BAD: Undercut the moral authority of religious leaders by portraying them as antiquated backwaters badly out of step with the times.

EXTREME VILIFICATION OF ALL PERSONS & GROUPS IN OPPOSITION: At a later stage of the media campaign against conservatism, it will be time to get tough with remaining opponents. To be blunt, TFR must be vilified…The public must be shown images of ranting people of faith (starting with President Bush) whose secondary traits and beliefs disgust Middle America. These images might include: Bush as Hitler, Rush Limbaugh as nothing more than a junkie who scored black market drugs; James Dobson as a wild-eyed anti-gay hatemonger; bigoted conservative ministers drooling with hysterical hatred to a degree that looks both comical and deranged. These images should be combined by a method propagandist's call the "bracket technique."
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This kind of evil propaganda has worked so well that many conservatives won't speak up for fear of being smeared.   

At a recent rally put on by MoveOn.org, former presidential candidate Al Gore called the Family Research Council (FRC) and Focus on the Family (Focus) "extremist organizations."  His proof of their extremism were comments made by Tony Perkins of FRC and James. Dobson of Focus quoting the Constitution.  Democrat Senator Ken Salazar accused Focus of being "the Antichrist of the world." 

"And who are these Americans whom Gore hysterically screams at, Kerry blames for his defeat, that the media compares to Nazis, and that Senator Harry Reid imagines run the Republican Party? They are sim

                 
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