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May 25, 2005
Calling a spade a spade
The following is an excerpt taken directly from a speech given by President Bush in New York about his plan for social security. This comes directly from the White House website (the real one, not the fake one):
Now, a personal savings account would be a part of a Social Security retirement system. It would be a part of what you would have to retire when you reach retirement age. As you -- as I mentioned to you earlier, we're going to redesign the current system. If you've retired, you don't have anything to worry about -- third time I've said that. (Laughter.) I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. (Applause.)
To me, the disturbing thing is not that Bush admits to repeating things to spread propaganda. He knows what he's doing. What's disturbing is the fact that the audience applauses after he says it.
Granted, politicians must always repeat messages, whether truthful or lies, when campaigning. Maybe Bush just made a bad choice of words when calling his message "propaganda." Or maybe he made a simple Freudian slip.
See if you can guess who said this about propaganda: "Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
Posted by Elyas at 10:40 PM | Comments (8) | TrackBack
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Propaganda can be true or it can be false. Since Bush explicitly said, "for the truth to sink in" it is self evident that he's talking about the true kind. Nothing wrong with true propaganda.
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