IT is interesting that a thread intended to confront the hard facts about lies and the liars who promote them has generated such a cloud of tangential mishmash and random commentary. Why, it's almost as though the real subject is somehow "unconfrontable". Hmmmmm.

Hypnotic suggestion, as Donuel points out, is a nasty business in mass manipulation. The Big Lier theory has been tested over and over again by demagogues from Berlin to DC, Moscow and Beijing. The fact that folks CAN be so manipulated by phrases and pictures is a sorry reflection on our legacy as thinking men and women.

PT Barnum had the rights of the matter.

Where do these lies come from, aside from Clerar Channel and those promoters mentioned above?

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