just sayin'

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...and started this thread while on the treadmill.

"serious" people are conservative Republicans.
Reps. have outnumbered Dems. of the Sunday shows for years.
Why else do they automatically go to John McCain. a man who has been wrong about every foreign policy issue for 30+ years, whenever an international story comes up?

brought the GOP to their knees.

Said Petreus was "your network's choice" for republican nomination.

is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

"War Propaganda", in volume 1, chapter 6 of Mein Kampf (1925), by Adolf Hitler

Karl Rove & the Spectre of Freud's Nephew
by Stephen Bender

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1783156

In the early 20th Century, the public came to associate the words "propaganda" and "war" with one another. This was no accident. Bernays wrote in Propaganda: "It was, of course, the astounding success of propaganda during the [First World] war that opened the eyes of the intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of regimenting the public mind."

Bernays is here referring to the "idealistic" Wilson administration’s Committee on Public Information (CPI), a massive propaganda ministry set up shortly after America’s entry into the First World War in April of 1917. The CPI was headed up by George Creel, a progressive journalist, who once remarked that "people do not live by bread alone; they also live by catch-phrases." Bernays was an advisor to the CPI. So was Walter Lippmann, a former socialist turned liberal who would become the dean of mid-20th Century American journalism.

These revolutionary psychological insights had actually been percolating in France and Great Britain since the first years of the 20th Century.

They were duly appropriated by Hitler, who wrote in Mein Kampf (1925): "But it was not until the [First World] War that it became evident what immense results could be obtained by a correct application of propaganda. Here again, unfortunately, all our studying had to be done on the enemy side…"

In Bernays’s 1965 memoir Biography of an Idea, he acknowledged that Crystallizing Public Opinion significantly influenced Josef Goebbels.

have to read more.

during the OJ trial for no reason other than that she was a lawyer that could speak in complete sentences in front of a camera.

She always pretends to fair, but she can never shake off her inner repuke.

What a pathetic joke.....

never ask any real questions and always make sure to keep the status quo alive and well. IOW, the ones that get to stay the longest are the best propaganda mouthpieces for said corporate mass media-Big Pharma pusher.