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Family Security Matters » Publications » Exclusive: AX-Rods: "“Lying,” while best, perhaps carries too many legal and other overly broad implications for an audience of relativists. And “manipulating” is too technical absent detailed explanation. “Hoodwinking” lacks the requisite gravity. “Gaslighting” is, perhaps, the most accurate but today’s generation is unaware of the reference to one’s being persuaded to trust another’s fabricated explanations instead of her own “lying eyes.” Instead, we need a Google-Twitter-like word to describe the phenomenon presented by President Obama’s media maneuverings. Perhaps “Axelrodded” or “AX-Rod” for short (as “A-Rod” is already taken) will do.

Just as Josef Goebbels trumpeted the value of the “Big Lie” for Adolph Hitler, David Axelrod has perfected the art of entrancing people in a “virtual” reality instead of the one we actually inhabit. And there is a method at work here. As made obvious from his healthcare and other policy plans, Obama’s target demo – those whom he seeks to enrapture – are the young as, once entranced, they will likely remain loyal and apply themselves to his cause. The old, however, are not only expendable as Obama’s healthcare “reform” makes clear. The"