Closing Thought–18Nov20
We all are well aware just how much lying the president and his butt boys can do…..I have labelled it propaganda……and yet Biden has hired a dude that is proud of his propagandizing….
Richard Stengel, the top state media appointee for US President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team, has enthusiastically defended the use of propaganda against Americans.
“My old job at the State Department was what people used to joke as the chief propagandist,” Stengel said in 2018. “I’m not against propaganda. Every country does it, and they have to do it to their own population. And I don’t necessarily think it’s that awful.”
Richard “Rick” Stengel was the longest serving under-secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs in US history.
At the State Department under President Barack Obama, Stengel boasted that he “started the only entity in government, non-classified entity, that combated Russian disinformation.” That institution was known as the Global Engagement Center, and it amounted to a massive vehicle for advancing US government propaganda around the world.
A committed crusader in what he openly describes as a global “information war,” Stengel has proudly proclaimed his dedication to the carefully management of the public’s access to information.
Biden state media appointee advocated using propaganda against Americans and ‘rethinking’ First Amendment
Do not trust someone because they are tied to Obama in some way.
I have tried to help my reader understand and identify propaganda in all they see and hear…..
https://lobotero.com/2013/01/11/what-is-propaganda/
https://lobotero.com/2014/01/06/propaganda-2-0/
The 24 hour news cycle and social media have turned propaganda into something”noble”…..that is where I draw the line…propaganda is lies used to persuade…..PERIOD!
Now we have a dude that thinks propaganda is a ‘good thing’…..that is not better than the fools in the outgoing administration.
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Learn Stuff!
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“lego ergo scribo”
Better hair, less tan, fewer tweets, no change.
Best wishes, Pete.
He was the editor of TIME magazine……been spreading BS all his life. chuq
I get the feeling you are really not pleased with our president Elect. What’s up?
I have never been a Centrist…this country needs so much to set it right and I do not think Biden will do much….we changed the dude on the gold toilet and that is about all chuq
I get where you’re coming from. Trump has taken us to the far right and you want to go to the far left. The majority of Americans are centrist but that could change as our young people take control.
I have been what some call a Leftist since 1970…that has never changed…..I will not support something I think will not benefit the people of this country. chuq
Nor I.
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I know this isn’t going to be perfect, but I still think it’ll be better than what we’ve had for the last almost 14 years.
Like I said…we have changed the leader but everything else will stay pretty much the same chuq
Maybe everything ya see on TV is propaganda. The commercials certainly are, they’re saying. “you’ve not happy, go out and buy something.” When I was in grade school in the 50’s, we spouted propaganda daily; I pledge allegiance….Maybe it comes down to what’s your favorite propaganda? I like mine warm and fuzzy 🙂
That is why books are a great idea…..learn stuff chuq
I am very disappointed already in the horrible people in his transition team, 1/3 of them with ties to weapons manufacturers, and the leaked people he will choose for his cabinet. Also the woman who was over family separations during the Obama administration was brought back on board. I’m disgusted.
The types I said he would choose….chuq
Many progressives believed they could “push him left” after the election but so far progressives are being shut out and scapegoated by Democrats.
The Centrists are owned by corporate America and the progressive cannot break that grip….at least for now……chuq
I don’t think they’ll ever break it. More likely many of them will end up selling out.
I agree not in my lifetime……but there are those making in-roads…..if it continues then we can hope chuq
I’m convinced the Democratic Party is unreformable.
You may well be correct…..time to look to the Left where ideas originate….chuq