Thursday, November 03, 2016

How Gun-Grabbers Can Win

Pick a high-profile fight in a place where the demographics say you have the numbers, and then AstoTurf-finance the s**t out of it while your media allies give you the lion's share of coverage -- all glowing.

Grassroots activists will have neither the funds, contacts nor skills to go up against an army of propaganda professionals, and Fairfax will do bare minumum to forestall accusations of being AWOL -- with just enough plausible deniability to blame a loss on the locals.

This is one of those paywall pieces, so a hot link won't work.  I understand if you turn off cookies, pasting this url in your browser is supposed to:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/election/article112211147.html

[Via bondmen]

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