December 27, 2018

With identical tweets, Schumer and Pelosi reveal themselves as mouthpieces for the same propaganda
puppet master
By Thomas Lifson

I have long wondered about who writes the talking points that keep Democrats reading from the same script.
That person – or more likely, persons – evidently issues instructions that the office holder branch and the
journalist branch of the Democratic Party mimic in their public statements. But in order to appear slightly
authentic, they are supposed to speak extemporaneously and make it appear that they all came up with the
phrases-of-the-day spontaneously. This works for interviews with print and television journalists, but the rise
of Twitter has introduced new danger of exposure.  Now we have proof that the current ostensible leaders of
the Democrats’ party are often just actors reading from scripts supplied to them by people hidden from public
scrutiny.  Christmas Eve saw the presumptive new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi issue a tweet that was
identical, word-for-word, to one issued 23 minutes earlier by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.

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Schumer’s version:
 
 It's Christmas Eve and President @realDonaldTrump is plunging the country into chaos. The stock
market is tanking and the President is waging a personal war on the Federal Reserve—after he just
fired the Secretary of Defense.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 24, 2018

And Pelosi’s:
 

It's Christmas Eve and @realDonaldTrump is plunging the country into chaos. The stock market is
tanking and the president is waging a personal war on the Federal Reserve — after he just fired
the Secretary of Defense. #TrumpShutdown
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) December 24, 2018

 
Needless to say, the mainstream media takes no interest at all in the process by which Democrats achieve what
is euphemistically called “message discipline.” The notion that there is a command center that instructs
Democrat office holders what to say each day is certainly an important subject, for the identities of those
staffing the command center determines a large portion of our national political dialogue. Who pays these
people, whoever they are? Who selects them to put words in the mouths and twitter accounts of people that
supposedly represent their constituents?

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