<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/48bfb4c8-353b-4f03-8327-db9574ae1ebb/6DF9C638-9247-4493-A6FF-60714E85FCF5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13329" href="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13329" style="font-size: 11px;">www.antiwar.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13329"><P>Listen long and hard to the talking heads on TV and you'll hear that phrase echoing down through the cable-vision canyons, bouncing off the walls and endlessly <A href="http://news.google.com/news?q=%22the%20narrative%22&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS176US231&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn">repeated</A> by reporters, bloggers, and water-cooler savants: <I>It's the narrative, stupid.</I></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13329">The meaning – and danger – of the narrative was masterfully <A href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html">demonstrated</A> in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. The facts were <A href="http://www.antiwar.com/porter/?articleid=13273">tossed</A> <A href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1122nj1.htm">aside</A>, or else <A href="http://www.q-and-a.org/Program/?ProgramID=1069">cherry-picked</A> and <A href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/47377">arranged</A> in such a fashion as to mimic the truth while telling a brazen lie. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13329">Visions of mass death, imprinted on the popular imagination by <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Pretext-War-Americas-Intelligence-Agencies/dp/0385506724/antiwarbookstore">the events of 9/11</A>, were projected on every surface, and Congress was stampeded by fear – and, for the War Party, a <A href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/">fortuitous episode</A> of <A href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/18/anthrax/index.html">anthrax-in-the-mails</A> – into passing the so-called <A href="http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html">PATRIOT Act</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13329">When a good narrative is overused, it becomes counterproductive, and the War Party's story line with a Middle Eastern background is surely getting a little frayed around the edges.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6DF9C638-9247-4493-A6FF-60714E85FCF5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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