Sun Tzu - “Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.”

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If you are tired of the last eight years of republican manipulation then I think the one of the first steps is for us all to learn the tactics being used by the other side. Here's a good analysis of one example.

The Attack on Oprah: A Case Study Of The Strategies of the Conservative Noise Machine.
By Harold Feld Senior Vice President at the Media Access Project, and overall really smart guy.