At his morning briefing, White House press secretary Scott McClellan sought to emphasize Bush's link between progress and heightened attacks. "We've always said the more progress we make, the more desperate the killers will become," the spokesman said. Asked how it could be determined that the attacks signaled desperation rather than sophistication, McClellan repeated: "The more progress we make toward a free and prosperous Iraq, the more desperate they will become."
Why do I insist on calling it ideological rather than “spin” or “Madison Avenue”?
Because salesmanship requires some kind of tether to reality – these sort of statements are not simply divorced from reality, but intended to reshape reality to conform with the proffered Weltanshauung. They don’t simply begin with a false premise, the very “logic” employed is false, and indeed, brazen in its falsity.
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