Did Evil Turtle Man fall victim to visual propaganda?

© 2017 Peter Free

 

07 March 2017

 

 

Given democracy's death — we may as well appreciate the skill with which our national delusions are delivered

 

Consider the following from the Huffington Post. Look at the photograph of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that leads the article:

 

 

Senate Republicans voted Monday to kill an executive order issued by former President Barack Obama known as the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule. The 49-48 vote, with all Democrats opposed, eliminates a regulation issued late in Obama’s presidency that would have made it harder for companies to secure federal contracts if they have a documented history of wage theft or workplace hazards.

 

Backers of the rule, which included Democrats and worker groups, said it would have helped assure that the nation’s most unscrupulous employers aren’t rewarded with taxpayer dollars. Republicans and business groups claimed it would have unfairly punished companies without giving them due process.

 

© 2017 Dave Jamieson, Republicans Just Made It Easier For Companies To Exploit Workers, Huffington Post (06 March 2017) (excerpts)

 

 

"Well Pete, we already knew that Republicans hate American workers"

 

Yes, but . . .

 

What makes Dave Jamieson's article cynically amusing, is the picture of Beelzebub McConnell that Huffington's editors chose to illustrate it. Evil Turtle Man looks as if he is gloating over the worker-squashing outcome.

 

The association of (Reuters press photographer) Joshua Roberts' picture with an event that probably did not actually accompany it, is a psychological ruse that typifies our Age of Lies.

 

I doubt that the perpetually self-controlled Senator McConnell looked anything like that photograph — before, during or after the Obama executive order's repeal.

 

Yet, anyone who reads the Huffington article will likely be subliminally imbued with the sense that Mitch McConnell is a gleeful Rat Bastard. (Which may or may not be appreciated, depending upon one's politics.)

 

 

The moral? — Accurate representation went completely out the door years ago in the United States

 

The Establishment's intentional delivery of constant inaccuracies may partly explain why the American public remains as ignorantly unthinking as it is.

 

What's a few psychically manipulating lies between friends?