Joshua Green has a great article in this months Atlantic Monthly which explores just how advanced the art of dirty politics has become. Using the 2k elections as a benchmark he recounts (no pun intended) a bbc film never released in the US, Digging The Dirt. The film explores how "opposition research" became professionalized, especially in the GOP camp. The articles main focus is how this opposition research has become a way not just to catch the other guy in a lie or scandal but a way to totally change the public perception of someone. Case in point- Al Gore: from still environmentalist to Al Gore, someone who will say anything to become elected. I think Green's argument goes hand-in-hand with about the internet/blogging and political rumor mongeringsome that I made . It's a dirty, dirty sport
Posted by thickeye at May 19, 2004 05:11 PM