>>I beleive it was Hitler who said "If you tell a big enough lie, long enough, it becomes the truth. And everbody will beleive it." (or sometimes like that.)
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>I had the same thoughts when I first read his statement. The only quibble is that I think it was Hitler's propoganda minister Joseph Goebbles who said that rather than Hitler himself. Stalin also subscribed to this theory.
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I think you are right, it was Goebbles.

>Propoganda, almost by definition, is at least slanted and at worst a fabrication. I remember during the Vietnam war the "Information" put out by the US and the "Propoganda" put out by the North Vietnamese. It's interesting to me to see an American President using the word "propoganda" in a postive sense (or else I'm misreading the quote).
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This reminds me. History is written by the winner. Now, considering that there was no actual winner of the Vietnam war. There most probably are two offical version of the history of the war.

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>>>Where does your cynical attitude come from? Dont statements like this one from GDub put that all to rest?
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>>>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.)
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>>>Who the hell applaudes a line like that anyway?
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>>>>But to be fair you may be on to something there, as the current speeches on "pandemics" and some similarly silly older ones seem to come from a preconceived notion that the average U.S. citizen is an idiot: ready to consume, digest and assimilate anything that comes out in the news. (It was catalogued yesterday that the Prez used the word 75 times during the speech..)
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>>>>That's my rant for now..