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President Obama has been using persuasive public relations techniques to sell his economic stimulus plan to hard-core supporters, Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reports.
The administration is attempting to influence public opinion using media-management techniques geared toward a YouTube and iPod generation.
“Obama’s television and radio addresses are designed to maintain and manipulate a hard-core group of people who can be called upon to support his policies no matter how unpopular he becomes,” Cliff Kincaid, editor of Accuracy in Media, told Red Alert.
“These are the Obamatons of the Obama nation,” Kincaid said. “Like the media, they are gripped with Obamamania, a psychological state of mind that views the new U.S. president as not only a national but a global savior.”
Obama used focus groups to push through his $800 billion economic stimulus package last week, Corsi wrote.
On Jan. 8, Bloomberg reported the president’s top political aides were “transplanting their campaign tactics to the policy area” by using data from polls and focus groups to shape the debate over the economic recovery plan.
David Axelrod, Obama’s chief political adviser, and campaign media adviser Jim Margolis reportedly had decided to encourage lawmakers to use the word “recovery” instead of recession and “investment” instead of “infrastructure” in an attempt to make the package more appealing to voters.
Axelrod and Margolis even met with House and Senate Democratic Party leaders to share results of their opinion research and advise them on how to repackage their own speeches before Congress and the press.
“We already know that his more-spending and debt-stimulus plan, which Obama calls the ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,’ was concocted with the support of focus groups and opinion polls,” Kincaid told Corsi. “This demonstrates his method of doing business by deception. Obama thinks he can fool the people, and there are obviously some people who want to be fooled.”
Republicans objected that Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package consisted more of Democratic pet projects than true economic stimulus measures that could create greatly needed new jobs, Corsi wrote.
As part of another major public relations effort, President Obama has also created a new group called Organizing for America.
The president is attempting to apply his community organizing skills through a YouTube-oriented vehicle capable of mining the 13 million-person e-mail list developed during his 2008 presidential campaign.
The current plan appears to involve an attempt to house Organizing for America within the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, so as to create legal separation between the White House and the political activism the organization appears designed to create, Corsi wrote.
The president’s popularity, at an all-time high of 82 percent prior to the inauguration, dropped 14 points to 69 percent in the first week after taking office.
“Obama has reason to be worried,” Corsi said.
Now Red Alert’s author, whose books “The Obama Nation” and “Unfit for Command” have topped the New York Times best-sellers list, argues that by advancing an “economic stimulus” program that amounts to nothing more than Democratic Party lost causes, pork and boondoggles, the Obama administration risks being taken to task by the American public once the $800 billion binge fails to produce promised new jobs.
Corsi received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972. For nearly 25 years, beginning in 1981, he worked with banks throughout the U.S. and around the world to develop financial services marketing companies to assist banks in establishing broker/dealers and insurance subsidiaries to provide financial planning products and services to their retail customers. In this career, Corsi developed three different third-party financial services marketing firms that reached gross sales levels of $1 billion in annuities and equal volume in mutual funds. In 1999, he began developing Internet-based financial marketing firms, also adapted to work in conjunction with banks.
In his 25-year financial services career, Corsi has been a noted financial services speaker and writer, publishing three books and numerous articles in professional financial services journals and magazines.
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