As a followup to our previous coverage of the Jesse MacBeth video, we've posted a comment we left yesterday at another blog. We found the blog with its original post and trailing comments perfectly suitable to illustrate the very point we set out to make.
This video is definitely a must see as Goldstein's entertaining post and its trailing comments are a must read.
The MacBeth Op's been run like a classic info-op, setting up a strawman with which to mine against the return to areas of inquiry harbouring legitimate claims and grievances. It's 101 stuff right out of one of my skullduggerous freshman textbooks.
Most of the responses here prove my point and are the very reactions sought after per operational design. It's successes like this, as demonstrated by your unrestrained glee of solving the puzzle, that makes info-ops like this so entertainingly rewarding to work with. Your very exposé, and its limited depth of comprehension, comprises the actual honeytrap.
Those that take unbridled pride in the inevitable expostion of an enigma designed for easy elucidation, and draw far reaching and boistrous conclusions about the validity of everything else critical, are in fact the honeytrapped - not the reasonably gullible that originally clung to MacBeth's revelatory promise.
Judging by the blog's post and the ensuing comments I dare say that most everyone here now has sticky feet.
Thanks for making this line of work so easy for my successors.
26 comments:
Mmmm, more spunky protein from Texas.
Keep up your marathon onanist sessions and ensure that doting posse of yours remains fed, smiling, fellated, and facialized. In short order, served.
Zinc supplementals washed down with plenty of milch should find your spunky stocks vigorously replenished so as to keep those Jonestownians of yours well soothed through life's long haul of pavor nocturnal nights.
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what?
I mean, I followed the whole post-structuralist/intentionalist at PW word for word.
Now, you realize that no blog has a high score for the number of senseless, redundant words crammed into each sentence...
I mean, if that's your thing, and that's what you are shooting for, then my apologies. That is within your right.
But, honestly though... right off the bat... "nocturnal nights?"
What?
Is there a point in there someplace? Or was this just an excuse to show your hard earned education at work?
Affected style substitutes readily for sensible substance wherever may be found a self-satisfied sham swami seeking syncophants. Is not this true, do you find?
The Belly of Buddah said...
What?
Is there a point in there someplace? Or was this just an excuse to show your hard earned education at work?
Belly, if you had a better attention span you would be able to understand Meatball One's point.
I cannot speak for the author, but it appears that his point is that the bogus MacBeth video was released specifically so that an army of wingnuts and assorted riff-raff would work overtime to debunk the message and messenger.
The motive of the info-op would be to encourage the throwing out of the baby with the bathwater, i.e. so that any subsequent revelations of real U.S. war crimes or outrages would be branded with the same brush of falsehoods.
Ah, isn't it easier to just say "Karl Rove did it" then?
After all, if your target audience is past-eating red necked neo-cons don't you think the message should be kept as simple as possible?
Paste is for amateurs. I prefer... mucilage!
I have to agree with anonymous @16:11.
I am willing to bet that the newby visitors today to this blog, which specializes in exposing info-ops and other aspects of psychological warfare, have no idea what info-ops are.
Anyone who thinks that info-ops are some kind of bullshit should simply Google "information operations." You will find that the U.S. military has been increasing their emphasis on info-ops for over a decade now. It is a major priority of Rumsfeld's DOD.
Longtime readers here know that there is a reason for Meatball's syntactic excesses.
I blame Karl Rove.
Also, UFOs.
Remember, only TINFOIL can stop the Rovian/alien/hybrid/ mental domination rays from penetrating your cranium and denying your civil right to Free Will. ALUMINUM foil is worthless. Also, remember your eyeholes can be no larger than a dime as the mental domination have a short wavelength.
The Rovists are also behind the replace-tinfoil-with-aluminum-foil conspiracy, of course. I expect you people to expose this info-op as well.
FIGHT THE FUTURE!!
For you skeptics who doubt the Rovist/alien mind control rays, try wearing your tinfoil helmet around to work, school, etc. People will point and laugh; clearly, such behavior is an info-op intended to create social pressure so that you remove the helmet and expose yourself once again. Try it if you doubt me, and see if I'm not right.
I know Halliburton and Diebold are involved somehow, but I'm still gathering evidence here in my mom's basement. Soon their lies will be uncovered!
Syntactic excesses is a very... euphamistic way of putting it, to say the least.
All that aside, I still find this... rather fanciful, convenient, and somewhat self-indulgent fantasy that this is an "info-op" to be, at best, absurd, and, at worst, a juvenile attempt to retreat to the explanation that allows you to cast yourself as intellectually superior.
All excellent and viviously valid comments! My basement surf den has never been filled with so much laughter since my Mom told me I know no longer had to share it with our pool cleaner from Haiti that boarded for 8 years with Mom and I. Yes, I remember how I tore down all his posters of Aristide and Che and slapped up my Lucy Liu glossies absolutely everywhere.
Ohnes....pavor nocturnal nights it was. A mishmashy phrase of my own delusions. Certainly you know of the phenomena of night terror=pavor nocturnus? It's a leading cause of adult bed wetting below the age of 50.
Belly Of Buddah Dude or Dudesse, certainly you can tell by my dysmorphic syntax that an M1 couldn't possible have any high enough education under his garter belt. But you are kind in as much as you remain so nobly generous. Thanks
Second Anon Mucilage is great for some but since I'm always gluing my dick to my knee when cuttin' n pastin', I prefer to play with the more forgiving variants of sticky sh*t.
c4sir folks will cherry pick whatever they need to mitigate raging cognitive dissonance. It's the way we work and the way many a scaredy pant survives. Luckily certain niches in the community and Services have psychometric tests to screen out those survivors by way of denial. Hey, everyone can't be a true freedom fighter. The rest go on 2 week vacations to Mexico and go to strip clubs to see fine ass. And there ain't nuttin' wrong with Mexico.
Talldave and cellar Anon Wearing tinfoil is too thin, man. Yet it somehow knocks out the reception on my EVP sensory array. I just have to talk to Greta Garbo each night before Ma tucks me in.
Laughing Anon You're a tad late to the gabfest. So for your and Pa's info, The vid was posted to track what we thought was a fun little info-op. We've tracked previous launches of info-ops, albeit of those of somewhat grander dimensions. Our original post on the topic at Protein Wisdom by Goldstein and its trailing commentary, was done because we considered it a perfect example of the reactions intentionaly generated by similar ops. It was case in point, so to say.
If this indeed turns out to be an info-op leading back to tax-subsidized kidz remains to be seen. It still serves well to portray the textbook responses to faux stories as this. Blips like this are studied most diligently by those whose job it is to perpetrate similar events as well as protect us from such events.
It's actually that simple and not particularly tin-foilish.
SS - how very true you speak. Such is more oft the case than not. What a bright young fella ye are.
Your most gracious and noble kindness is humbly to be received, and as such, has been, and never more not to be so.
Goosebumps, I tell ya. Goosebumps.
Christ, they let anybody blog, don't they?
Where's the Men's room?
verification word: aculu
If they're looking for me, tell them I'm not here.
Well, obviously Meatball One is the 'circle within a circle' part of the info-op - the guy who distracts everybody by pointing to the head-fake being done by Goldstein
... obviously, the two of them are in cahoots as part of the Info-Op
cahoots, I tells ya.
Cahoots.
Pablo, have you been following the Senate votes lately? Arlen Specter's inspired Bill S. 2611 passed with amendments entailing an end to entry into the U.S. through illegal tunnels. I bet you're counting your lucky stars that you managed to crawl in just in the nick of time. How far north have you made it so far?
Felicitaciones!
Callsign: Dropkick
PS Here's a quarter. You'll need it to get into the men's room but leave your sleeping bag outside. It arouses suspicion in these quarters.
Dashing Goldstein. Dashing.
How's your form on horseback?
But just admit it Mr. Goldstein. You were sucker punched into playing the unwitting role everyone knew the likes of you would play. That's sudden poetry, baby.
Too bad you never looked a level or two deeper than your shoal hopes, then you too could have been a hero (less of course a posse of avid panderers). But hey, such trekking is a thing of men - not mice.
Guess what Meatball? YOU'RE part of our info-op too! Mwahahaha! We knew you'd react just this way, and now you're dancing like a marionette on our string!
Now... DANCE, PUPPET! DANCE!
Mwahahahahahahahaha!
Anon
Maybe, but we're not stoking its central objective per predictable response. That's pretty basic to see, ain't it now cowboy.
But sure, in some Heisenbergian way, SMC is part of this in as much as we've observed and commented on the travesty.
But ya' know anonymous cowboy, the meatballian crew was tap dancing from scratch on this. It's all about when you put your Capezios, not if you finally do.
Cheers Cowlaugher
PS Everyone at SMC, even the girls, are scared poopless that you might be a girl. With a chuckle like yours we simply don't dare ponder what your toe nails might look like. Perhaps you live above the arctic circle's treeline and get to keep your icebearslippers on all year. That would be fortunate for all and hubby.
CraigC
Baby, we're with you on that one. All the way. We're praying like heck dis be a parody.
Man, you conspiracy theorists kill me. Does anybody really believe this MacBeth guy is being used as some kind of a modern day Lee Harvey Oswald to discredit IVAW (is there a man on the "grassy knoll" somewhere?). I guess I should believe that the same government who couldn't deliver bottled water after Katrina is now conducting info/psy ops to counter some disgruntled loser army supply clerk at IVAW for "blowing the lid off the dirty little secrets in Iraq"? Listen to what these IVAW boneheads are saying - "well, I heard from a cook buddy of mine that he overheard some guy in the chow line saying that his friend saw some civilian guy get shot and man that's just messed up dude". Please. You guys need to come out from underneath those rocks, tell your moms you're going out to play and that you'll be back later. Get some fresh air and sunshine, it might be helpful in treating your phobias about the bad old US Government boogie man lurking under your bed.
No no no, how da f*ck could you get something so asininely wrong? Is that to be expected from the last trailing cripple outta PW? At least that Jeff Goldstein fella can write and his pointmen posse are both funny and cleverly acerbic in their ad hominems and caricatures. Really, dude.
When the MacBeth video came out we thought it was fake off the bat - at that we were hardly alone. We also knew that several war critical subterranean news outlets like Pacifica's Flashpoints and Dahr Jamal's website had run with it, and were effectively set up to be stung. These news outlets have previously, and seriously so, pissed off a lot of official folks with their oft excellent and leading reports on matters of considerable controversy that few others would go near. That in itself has made them prime targets for various information operations in the past.
We figured that whether or not this video was an actual tax-subsidized info-op or just some reprehensible prank by Seattle zealots or a poor Wendy's slave, it would be seized upon in a predictable way - as it subsequently was.
The fact that the Wingnuts aka Fearpissers,which DW was an excellent example of at the time, jumped at the opportunity to vigorously discount the validity of all Moonbatty critique per way of the false claims of this particular fraud...well, that was the very predictable behavior we thought noteworthy in as much as we have a certain predilection for sloppy coverage of such phenomena as info-ops. (Some of us were gainfully employed in the past to play such games and at that had our fun subsized with the very protection fees your parents' neighbors pay to uncle Pam)
And to the extent that this was an info-op of tax-subsidized origin (yes retard, such things do rather mundanely occur without relying on our bullsh*t claims), it was that very Wingnut response that was certainly desired per design. The powerful backlash provided by the Wingnuts would effectively serve to muffle any future Moonbatty enthusiasm should further reports of nastiness surface down the road. Now it so happened that there indeed was one such horrific report just days away from coming out of the pipeline for wider dissemination.
Now our guess is that indeed, this video was the result of crooked information being planted so as to discredit annoying newscasters and that Jesse ain't where this story stops for those interested in bottom lines where deeper bottom lines do sometimes exist without delving into the schizoidal domains of UFOs and contrails. The distribution arc of this video is just too vectored and timely to be ignored. But who knows for sure, certainly not SMC. But your comments, well. Me thinky you need a little less of ditch digger's sunshine and a bit more academic tutelage and cognitive vetting.
Sooo, IVAW has zilch to do with anything we said other than being a readily available source for all the eager Nancy Drews to phone in order to obliterate one of Jesse's central claims. Hell, go ask Jeff Goldstein. I'm sure even he would back us up on that one. Jeff's problem ain't exactly that he's stupid. He has a great blog and I'm sure he manages to pay his bills and have something left over for his wife and favorite charities. I doubt that of sun-basking little ol' you.
I mean really, how the f*ck did you manage to bring IVAW into this as some central or even peripheral thesis of your rhizomatic critique? I'm boggled so my meatball hurts. Have you graduated from anything beyond high school?
Chr*st, the confused f*cks that insist on yacking around here. I can't even imagine you belong to the regular PW fearpissers at all. I'm sure PW must reserve the right for some comment moderation and I would hardly be surprised if you were to be found at the very top of his hitlist, 300 notches above any Meatball One. They're far to intelligent over there in all their lingering bedwetting trauma to let the likes of you pull down their high witty average. PW has afterall considerable style and intelligence where he otherwise lacks a rational predilection.
So scurry on numbnuts.
The tinfoil factory is thataway-------->
<-----Honduras is thataway.
Take your pick. Anywhere you meander, there's always gonna be another ditch that needs its digger.
PS Ya bastard, now you burnt my 15 minutes of daily meatball rolling. But maybe that was your cunning plan, eh soldier?
Meatdingus1,
You have proven to be my intellctual superior - I'm so ashamed. I am also very sorry for disturbing your ball rolling (hope your mom doesn't find out what you're doing in your room). I still think you need to go outside and play with your friends - maybe a nice game of dungeons and dragons on the front lawn would do you some good.
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