Iran Deal Video: Celebs Do Slow Burn

Aussie Dave shared the new celebrity video about the Iran deal here and when I saw it, all I could do was shake my head. Because with each machination of the Obama Administration, from the lies about the ACA (you can keep your doctor/plan); to the lies about Obama’s red lines on Syria (Assad’s use of chemical weapons); to the lies about the Iran deal which is no deal at all, the American public is fed its talking points.

The American media is complicit in getting the word out so that liberals know what to say should anyone dare question a policy that makes no sense. The talking points become the essence of the argument in favor of the policy, though the talking points themselves, are illogical.

The Talking Points

That is what is now happening with the Iran deal. The talking points, which we all know by now, are:

1) What choice do we have?

and

2) Do you have a better solution?

These two questions are not salient to the “deal” as the deal is not a deal but the granting of all demands to a non-rational actor. President Obama is the Fairy Godmother in this play where the sympathetic character is a despotic regime whose stated intentions are to get the bomb and nuke the crap out of the West and especially Big Satan (America) and Little Satan (Israel).

So you’ve got these two talking points, questions really, that have no relevance, because A) the deal is not a deal; B) the choice is to not make the deal; and C) the solution is to not make the deal.

Moral Panic

Naturally, these two irrelevant talking points about choice and solution need a lot of help if they are to spread indignation about the terrible people who want to stop the deal. So what better way to provoke a moral panic, to make sure these illogical talking points take hold than via the celebrity endorsement?

It’s a time-proven marketing technique!

Here’s where you need to go watch the video over at Aussie Dave’s post.  If you haven’t done so, go do it now and then come back here.

Watched it? Good.

To review: 1) your choice is to burn slow or fast and 2) your solution is to do nothing but sit back and let it happen.

And of course, this is Morgan Freeman saying this, and even Queen Noor of Jordan! So it must be true.

But me? I’m stubborn. I’m just not getting the message.

Because I know that this deal paves and enables Iran’s way to the bomb; that both the choice and the solution are to NOT end the sanctions and to allow Israel free reign to mount surgical strikes in Iran without fear of isolation (or having Obama leak Israel’s intel to Iran).

So sure, they can have every celebrity in the world parrot these nonsensical talking points, these LIES, and I’m still going to keep coming back with logic and the truth.

Now I know that if I’m talking to a Democrat or an American between the ages of 18-34, it’s probably a lost cause. They’ve drunk the Koolaid. I’ll have my say and they’ll issue this smug, knowing grin. I am quite obviously the village idiot.

In spite of this, I’m pushing back. I figure: if they can issue their nonsensical talking points, I can respond sensibly with the truth and who knows?

It just might take hold.

21 thoughts on “Iran Deal Video: Celebs Do Slow Burn”

  1. Norman_In_New_York

    First, Mike Huckabee, a Republican hopeful, compared the Iran deal to the Holocaust. There were screams of reaction from the White House and the media. However, Huckabee doubled down and Obama’s people are finding his accusation hard to shake.

    Second, an opinion poll of Jews crafted by the Israel Project demonstrated that a significant part of the favoritism toward the deal is based on ignorance. The poll began by asking straight out whether the persons favored or opposed. Initially, 45% opposed and 40% favored. Then the pollsters began relating provisions of the deal and asked whether those same people approved or disapproved each provision. The disapprovals grew. Finally, these people were asked again their opinion on the deal as a whole. This time the disapproval was by a two-to-one margin even though a majority favored Obama’s unrelated domestic agenda.

    1. Do you have a link? I linked to a CNN poll in my piece, which would suggest that most Dems and the 18-34 demographic, approve of the deal. Since 70% of the Jews voted for Obama, I would assume that many Jews approve of the deal.

  2. Varda, the problem is the MEDIA. You’ve got an entire bunch of blowhard no-nothings who’s livelihoods all DEPEND on access to the political powers that be. It’s a system that feeds on itself.

    We saw the same thing with the Bush lead up to the war in Iraq, claims that Saddam was behind 9/11, the WMDs, the occupying of Iraq, OBL’s escape from Tora Bora etc etc etc.

      1. Oh yes they do. I imagine we’ll agree to disagree. But I disagree vehemently. I had to listen to Sarah Palin refer to health care as “death panels” for a year. And that “Corporations are people”, and that “Money is speech”…. The list is long.

          1. Only on behalf of a portion of the media. The same portion that appears to be regularly Anti-Israel. So, that’s who many of the sane people listen to, because they understand intuitively that Palin is insane. On the part of Right Wing media, which (thankfully) supports Israel we heard that she was absolutely correct.

            This is the problem. In America, Likud would be a Centrist party, with the GOP far far to the right. Americans vote for those who they believe will make good domestic legislation because it directly impacts their lives.

            On foreign policy, especially with regards to Israel, it’s all upside-down.

            With a two party system the choices are somewhat limited.

            With 45,000 Americans dying every single year ONLY because they lack Health Insurance, it’s very difficult, in good conscience, to vote for a party who’s standard bearers are referring to it as “death panels”.

            Most of these problems stem from the “Money is speech” mantra.

              1. I see it as a bit more complicated. As far as Israel is concerned most of Television is (now) indeed either regularly anti-Israel or at least demonstrably not Pro-Israel. But historically the American population is in general Pro-Israel. There was a whole lot more TV ONLY watching (no internet) back in the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s and there was a lot of support for Israel.

                So, is it the “Leftist media”? Or is it the media because laws have been changed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine , with the Fairness Doctrine being the most important change.

                With a supposedly Leftist media how does one account for the election of Ronald Reagan, and the Re-Election of Reagan who had the most indictments filed against members of his administration of all time. We’re talking multiple scandals, resulting in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any US president. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration_scandals

                Followed by George Bush Sr. Followed by the virtual assassination (character) of Clinton over consensual sex? Championed by Newt who was in the middle of ANOTHER torrid affair that ended ANOTHER marriage?

                Followed by the election of George W. Bush, and the CRAZY Re-Election of George W. Bush. And TRUMP is now leading in the polls??

                The problem as I see it is that the SYSTEM is corrupted. We have an anti-Israel President… we have a media echo chamber.

                So yes, I still see it as the media spreading BS. But are they doing it because they support Left over Right? I’m not sure that’s the case.

                As for the book, I haven’t read it. I did read the Pro and the Con reviews (thank you for the link), and I think this review jibes with how I see it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1BETL8GW1JMBG/ref=cm_cr_pr_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=006193478X

                The review itself is a good read btw. And I think what he gets to is the question of whether or not this propaganda machine has actually had a “Leftist” or supposedly “Liberal” impact on society, and how does it show up in our lives and politics, if at all?

                Apologies btw, for taking a week to respond. I didn’t realize you’d responded to my post. I checked before you did.

                1. So Shapiro, of course, answers these questions in his book. What it comes down to, is that Obama is the first media-created president. He came from NOWHERE. The media invented him, branded him on the U.S. conscious.

                  Even if there was a great deal of TV viewing before that time, presidents were elected on the strengths of their platforms and on the weaknesses or strengths of what came before them. Reagan was actually great for TV, with his Fin Syn regulations, plus he was PART of Hollywood. Still, he got no credit from his fellow actors. People lost jobs in Hollywood because of their support for Reagan.

                  It’s a complicated topic. Shapiro says that in trying to push the leftist political line, the media knew there had to be some balance, or it wouldn’t read true. Therefore, there wasn’t always this level of very out there intolerance and bias.

                  1. It is indeed complicated. Today Reagan would be a Democrat. He granted amnesty to Mexicans, and his taxes on the wealthy were higher. That said, imho, He was a terrible President (for whom I regretfully voted). For which I won’t bother to fill the page, but I’ve got a million good reasons to say it.

                    Even if Obama is a creation of the media, there are excellent reasons he was elected. Not that they are even Pro-Obama reasons. But they are anti-Right Wing reasons, as follows..

                    The Presidency of George W. Bush, the rise of the Tea Party, the cannibalizing by the Republicans of their own moderates via. the Tea Party, and the Republican’s stated goal of destroying the Obama Presidency, destroying “Obamacare”, revoking women’s right to choose, Citizen’s United, wanting to privatize Social Security, ruining America’s credit rating, granting the Banks 7 Trillion dollars of MY money, supporting racist drug enforcement, the Destruction of the Louisiana coastline, LYING about Hurricane Katrina, Defending Oil companies that destroy the environment, Denying Climate Change, militarizing the police, lying us into war, lying about WMDs, outing active CIA operatives, lying about domestic surveillance, destroying the economy while giving tax cuts to billionaires… I can go on all day. Maybe even all month ;-).

                    When the Right acknowledges the role they’ve played in thoroughly disgusting both Democrats and Independents (like myself) there will be sanity here in the US.

                    Instead, they are now giving the media the likes of Donald Trump against which most thinking human beings would rail.

                    BTW, if Shapiro is leaving out talk radio, his work is worse than incomplete. But, ALL of talk radio (with the exception perhaps of NPR which is indeed so anti-Israel that we call it National Palestinian Radio at home), is FAR Right Wing. Leaving Rush Limbaugh out of the equation and his like minded cohorts is simply not an accurate description of the media.

                    1. He touches on talk radio. But it’s not the thrust of his book. He, BTW, grew up in Hollywood.

                      I agree with you about the right and about Trump. We are on the same page. But I would vote for a Republican, any Republican, because I believe Republicans are better for Israel and that is my key issue.

                  2. Just to demonstrate how FAR right the Right has gone..

                    • As a Hollywood actor, Reagan had been the head of a labor union, the Screen Actors Guild, and was proud of the higher pay and benefits he negotiated for his members. As president, he praised labor unions, saying, “Collective bargaining…has played a major role in America’s economic miracle. Unions represent some of the freest institutions in this land. There are few finer examples of participatory democracy to be found anywhere.”

                    • Franklin D. Roosevelt was Reagan’s political hero and he voted for him for president 4 times. As president, he said, “F. D. R. was an American giant, a leader who shaped, inspired, and led our people through perilous times.”

                    • As governor of California, Reagan signed into law the largest state tax increase in history up to that time. It increased California taxes by a third, including an increase in the top income tax rate. There were other tax increases as well, which raised the top rate to 11 percent from 7 percent when he took office, a 57 percent increase.

                    • Also as governor, Reagan signed into law California’s first law permitting legal abortion – at the behest of his two most conservative advisers, Ed Meese and Lyn Nofziger. On other social issues as well, Gov. Reagan was far more progressive than his image. For example, he authorized conjugal visits for prisoners for the first time in the state and broadened environmental protection.

                    • In 1981, Reagan proposed a large tax cut. But when deficits became a problem, he supported tax increases and signed 11 of them into law. Among them was the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, the largest peacetime tax increase in American history.

                    • Reagan supported an increase in the capital gains tax to 28 percent from 20 percent as part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

                    • In 1986, Reagan supported an immigration reform that gave amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens. During the 1984 election, Reagan said, “I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally.”

                    • At the Reykjavik Summit with Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986, Reagan, to the horror of his advisers, offered to abolish nuclear weapons. To their relief, Gorbachev declined the offer.

                    As I said.. it’s complicated. But one thing’s for certain, even Reagan couldn’t get the Republican nomination today.

  3. Well we need to fight back the same way.

    a) Chuck Norris

    b) William Shattner

    c) Michael Ironside

    d) Val Kilmar

    e)…

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