The ceaseless repetition of key sound bytes

Dan Froomkin sums up the current state of political affairs:

But Bush’s argument is deeply flawed. Far from being baseless, the charge that he intentionally misled the public in the run-up to war is built on a growing amount of evidence. And the longer Bush goes without refuting that evidence in detail, the more persuasive it becomes.

And his most prized talking point — that many Democrats agreed with him at the time — is problematic. Many of those Democrats did so because they believed the information the president gave them. Now they are coming to the conclusion that they shouldn’t have.

Like other Bush campaigns, this one will inevitably feature the ceaseless repetition of key sound bytes — the hope being that they will be carried, largely unchallenged, by the media — and virulent attacks by the White House on those who dare to disagree, even going so far as to question their patriotism.