Never let a shooting go to waste
This is a classic diversionary tool in the play book of the politics of personal destruction: "Accuse your opponent of what you are guilty of."
David Axelrod, President Obama's top political adviser, verbalized this Machiavellian tactic in an NPR interview, April 19, 2010: "In Chicago, there was an old tradition of throwing a brick through your own campaign office window, and then calling a press conference to say that you've been attacked," Axelrod said.
Monday, January 17, 2011
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