Re: [OT] free Cindy Sheehan!

[tom walker <lumpoflabour@xxxxxxxx>]

I used to work in an communications consulting office
and although I primarily did social policy research, I
did a bit of political communications consulting too.
Although there may be Svengalis who are communications
consultants not all ccs are Svengalis who control the
political agenda. A competent PR person tries to
represent the client's interests, even where they
don't agree 100% with the consultants own views. Let's
face it, Kerry was and is a opportunistic jelly fish
-- he wasn't made one against his will by his
handlers.

Sandwichman


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Modern political communication imposes dilemmas on
> public speakers.
> Those who refuse to be handled by handlers (Ralph
> Nader) or are
> insufficiently groomed by them (Howard Dean, Dennis
> Kucinich) pay a
> price; but those who are handled by handlers too
> much (John F. Kerry,
> who in his Vietnam Veterans Against the War days
> must have actually
> believed what he said, whether or not he really
> wrote his own
> speeches even then) just lose their plot (even a
> capitalist plot) and
> become incoherent.  One way or another, political
> consultants destroy
> just about anything left of center, and only
> Clintons and Blairs
> survive.
>







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