Neocon reality inversion

About

The neocon reality inversion was a particular form of authoritarian reality inversion (ARI) which was popular during the Bush-Cheney administration.

Specifics

The neocon reality inversion added these particulars to the more general ARI practices:

• The Democrats have abused their power
• George W. Bush has been maligned by people who hate him for no good reason (or because of their own power-based agendas)
• Standing up to Bush or other neoconservatives "hurts" the democrats (i.e. makes them less electable).
• Scientists fear intelligent design because it threatens their worldview, while creationists are ever-curious seekers of truth. [1]
• People who vote out of blind obedience to their group affiliation (political or religious) are "values voters", while people who choose leaders based on a comparison of each candidate's moral and ethical values (and the integrity of their adherence to those values) are apparently non-values voters.

News

• 2008-06-18 [L..T] Visiting The Old Country Buffoon «The ‘Obama gaffes’ thing is a right-wing chant of the eternal shifting Now. Its meaning is that ‘gaffes’ are a bad thing as applied to John “Gaffer O’Blabby McGaffalot” McCain, but if you take out ‘John McCain’ and substitute ‘Barack Obama,’ then. . .opposite! The idea, as with all of these chants of theirs, is to repeat it a lot, winkingly for awhile, until they forget that it’s just something they made up to be saucy and pugnacious. Then it becomes true, and thus are worlds created through gradual accretion. It will become a fact through which other facts can be proved. ... Plus, ‘gave money and housing’ is the best-ever framing of putting someone in prison that has ever been attempted. Did you know that the Bush administration is giving money and housing to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? ZOMG.»
• 2005-08-31 [L..T] Hannity blamed "anti-war left" for protest at soldier's funeral actually organized by anti-gay church «On the August 30 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Sean Hannity falsely blamed "the anti-war left" for a protest at the August 28 funeral of Sgt. Jeremy Doyle of Indianapolis, who was killed while serving in Iraq. Hannity read excerpts of an article on the website of Indianapolis TV station WISH describing the protest, adding, "I guess this is just another example of how the anti-war left supports our brave troops." In fact, as The Indianapolis Star reported, the protesters were not anti-war liberals but, rather, members of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) in Topeka, Kansas, who claim that the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq are inflicted by God to punish the United States for its acceptance of gays and lesbians.»