In particular, the administration closed off a substantive societal - and international
- conversation about the meaning of the terrorist attacks and the direction of
the nation by consistently:
- showing antipathy toward complex conceptions of reality;
- framing calls for immediate action on administration policies as part of
the nation's 'calling' and 'mission' against terrorism;
- issuing declarations about the will of God for America and the values of
freedom and liberty;
- and demonstrating an intolerance for dissent.
The administration had help spreading its messages. The mainstream press consistently
echoed the administration's communications - thereby disseminating, reinforcing
and embedding the administration's fundamentalist worldview and helping to keep
at bay Congress and any substantive public questioning.
This book analyzes hundreds of administration communications and news stories
from September 2001 to Iraq in spring 2003 to examine how this occurred and
what it means for U.S. politics and the global landscape.
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