Read first.
Then discuss.
Power of story. This exposes and then explains everything we’ve ever talked about here imo.
According to Holmes, the general wanted the IO team to provide a “deeper analysis of pressure points we could use to leverage the delegation for more funds.” The general’s chief of staff also asked Holmes how Caldwell could secretly manipulate the U.S. lawmakers without their knowledge. “How do we get these guys to give us more people?” he demanded. “What do I have to plant inside their heads?”
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Heard from Rolling Stone’s exec editor Eric Bates just now:
“There’s a difference between public affairs and propaganda. This was a propaganda unit, and you’re not supposed to have them in the room.”
“It’s against the law to have them even attempt it. It [Psy-ops] is a weapon. A weapon that is not supposed to be used on our own people.”
Norah O’Donnell asked specifically if they found evidence of “disinformation, to trick or deceive”? — Bates’ answer: Yes.
See “the truths” of economist and former labor secretary under President Clinton, Robert Reich. (And a broke-but-looking-to-break-back cock of the snook to Chris O’Donnell for it. Knowledge is power, and there’s power in story!)
This seems like way overkill. What’s wrong with the traditional tools (booze, cigars, strippers) used to influence middle aged white men?
And then we have psy-ops journalism — messing with our heads and getting us to behave the way they want us to, so they can “win” this war with reality as the enemy — deployed as a weapon against American understanding of what’s really happening in WI and why:
Sachs was the first talking head I saw being interviewed who was actually speaking the truth. The rest have just been repeating the garbage the Rs put out as if it is factual.
Nance
And if even Shep Smith on FOX had it, and aired it, no one else has an excuse!
The video is at the link, and Juan Williams adds something pithy about how “facts make some people so angry!”
Speaking of which, Meg sent me to a boycott-the-Koch-labels link, where I was distressed to see Vanity Fair thinking it was the magazine, then realizing it was a paper napkin brand. How did I realize this? At another link: THe Koch brothers may be in your house right now!
For tomorrow’s NYT magazine, make time to read the whole thing when you can. It shines a bright light on how and why the psy-ops of demonizing teachers and other public workers works, the toolkit of deceptive oversimplification as practiced in New Jersey by the new national darling of the GOP:
Shop at the Dollar Store and/or buy non-brand-names and avoid most of these products.
Nance (wondering if they are all made in the same factory anyway and just have different labels slapped on them. . . )
“…wondering if they are all made in the same factory anyway…”
Yeah, there’s probably an endless list of ways that most all products are touched in some way by these people, as JJ’s ewwy “crannies” reference suggests.