politricks and other distractions

"So A Chicken Walks into the Dept of Ag..."

Every communications person's nightmare: the media gets ahold of a memo you wrote about talking points. Of course, only Dubya's team of Orwellian wizards would even dare try a stunt like this -- getting pro-Iraq war messages into the Dept of Agriculture. I believe these are desperate times calling for desperate measures on Capitol Hill.

My favorite part are these graphs at the end:

"The suggested talking points for agency workers to use before farm and agribusiness audiences include the poultry angle: pointing out that Iraqi farmers use U.S. aid to buy American feed and are working to "update 25-year-old chicken houses" as national stability takes hold. A barnyard stemwinder could deal with the ticklish subject of civil rights by noting that Iraq "has been evolving for 230 years" and is "still working to become a more perfect union" with the administration's help."

And there's nothing like a fresh back story in the war on terror. "Iraq is part of the 'fertile crescent' of Mesopotamia," where mankind first domesticated wheat thousands of years ago, this suggestion begins. Then it moves to the clincher: "In recent years, however, the birthplace of farming has been in trouble."

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Now THAT'S what I call a segue!

-- DC Native

posted by dcnative @ 9:48 AM