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robomatic	BS: What's all the fuss...French Erections? (103* d)	RE: BS: What's all the fuss...French Erections?	08 May 17
The mixing of facts with lies is not new, but what is new is the raising of this tactic to a science. I heard on the news this morning that FACEBOOK is resorting to newspaper ads to urge people to separate fake news from real news. What we are seeing is a continuing development of what Stephen Colbert on his old show termed "truthiness". This term perfectly captures the tactic of packaging a message slanted toward believability. The most predictable element of this sort of BS is not whether it's liberal or conservative, logical or emotional, but the appeal to FEAR. This calls to mind one of the United States' great Presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his continual slant against fear, in so many words: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

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