Five Stages Of Spin

by digby

If you aren’t reading Mahablog (along with TPM, of course) on the US Attorney scandal, you should be. She has lot’s of great analysis and sources in many posts over the last few days.

I particularly like this one:

You’ve no doubt heard of the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance). I’ve come to realize something like that goes on among righties whenever a new Republican scandal washes ashore. I propose that the five stages of reaction to a scandal are:

1. Ignoring
2. Belittling
3. Blaming the Media
4. Evoking Bill Clinton.
5. Boredom

That last stage allows the sufferer to return to stage 1 and ignore the issue. Also note that righties don’t necessarily go through these stages in order or even one stage at a time.

Haha. I think she leaves out one important stage — righteous indignation and evocations of unamerican, unpatriotic motives on the part of critics. Certainly, when we criticize the Justice Department for its political purge of Republicans with integrity, we are prove how much we hate the troops.

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