Another short check-in today, but I have something I want to share with you: an interview — on the Lou Perez Podcast — with NYU media studies professor and bête noir of respectable (🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣) corporate journalists, Mark Crispin Miller.
It’s a wide-ranging discussion that touches on the most toxic topics of our current political discourse; including a topic that will get you banned from Youtube and Manhattan dinner parties: election fraud.
What really stopped me in my tracks was an almost throw-away detail at the beginning of the show: Miller was talking about election fraud way back in the mists of the early 21st century (does anyone remember Bush v Gore and the hanging chads?)
And his concern over the integrity of the American voting system, which he calls the worst in the developed world, reminded me of a few other non Trump partisans who have said similar things about the 2020 election, and other elections before it.
But of course, nice, educated liberals are no longer allowed to countenance this. We (I say ‘we’ because I consider myself to be both nice and liberal, in its original meaning) are not allowed anywhere near even the faintest whiff of a question about senile grandpa Joe Biden’s purported 80 million votes. Among the media smart set, is completely beyond the pale to be skeptical of the victory of that corrupt, cadaverous, hair-sniffing snake oil salesman. (Unless you are Time Magazine in which case you can publish a long accounting of the hustle to get Trump out of office and call it “fortifying” democracy via a “conspiracy” to “protect the election”.)
Why is this topic so out-of-bounds? Well, to hear the establishment tell it, it’s because the only people pushing election fraud theories are foaming-at-the-mouth redneck fascists who want to lock up all brown people and feminists and live out the Handmaid’s Tale. Unfortunately, Miller doesn’t fit that profile. So really, there is only one possible answer. Propaganda.
Miller is exceptionally interesting on this issue: Americans, he says, have been the targets of an immensely successful propaganda campaign, conducted by their government, dating back to the Kennedy assassination. This campaign has re-wired how people think about elite power. And the media now, he says, “is completely unreliable, completely untrustworthy.”
Perhaps this is how we came to have this example of media credulity that boggles the mind:
I, for one, don’t want to be there when someone tells this blue-checked professional that Santa isn’t real either. Imagine!
Miller says:
“It makes people angry, because propaganda is not a rational thing. It hits us at a very deep level. It’s not like persuasion. If there’s group of us trying to persuade each other, it’s an argument we are having with each other, it’s a back and forth, it’s a give and take. We are trying to use reason, we are trying to use logic. It’s very different from the way propaganda works, because propaganda does not want an argument, propaganda does not want to be contradicted. Propaganda does not want anything near it that throws it into question.”
While I have not done a deep dive into the Warren Commission report or psyops, and therefore cannot claim any agreement with Miller on them, his description of how propaganda becomes enmeshed with emotion in its victims is something I have experienced directly — by being attacked by former friends for having a different opinion than they do.
And even more importantly, Miller reminds us: “propaganda and censorship are two sides of the same coin.”
The whole interview is fascinating. I strongly recommend watching it. As Miller tells the host, comedian Lou Perez, don’t believe a word I say. Check it out for yourself.
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Another short check-in today, but I have something I want to share with you: an interview — on the Lou Perez Podcast — with NYU media studies professor and bête noir of respectable (🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣) corporate journalists, Mark Crispin Miller.
It’s a wide-ranging discussion that touches on the most toxic topics of our current political discourse; including a topic that will get you banned from Youtube and Manhattan dinner parties: election fraud.
What really stopped me in my tracks was an almost throw-away detail at the beginning of the show: Miller was talking about election fraud way back in the mists of the early 21st century (does anyone remember Bush v Gore and the hanging chads?)
And his concern over the integrity of the American voting system, which he calls the worst in the developed world, reminded me of a few other non Trump partisans who have said similar things about the 2020 election, and other elections before it.
But of course, nice, educated liberals are no longer allowed to countenance this. We (I say ‘we’ because I consider myself to be both nice and liberal, in its original meaning) are not allowed anywhere near even the faintest whiff of a question about senile grandpa Joe Biden’s purported 80 million votes. Among the media smart set, is completely beyond the pale to be skeptical of the victory of that corrupt, cadaverous, hair-sniffing snake oil salesman. (Unless you are Time Magazine in which case you can publish a long accounting of the hustle to get Trump out of office and call it “fortifying” democracy via a “conspiracy” to “protect the election”.)
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Why is this topic so out-of-bounds? Well, to hear the establishment tell it, it’s because the only people pushing election fraud theories are foaming-at-the-mouth redneck fascists who want to lock up all brown people and feminists and live out the Handmaid’s Tale. Unfortunately, Miller doesn’t fit that profile. So really, there is only one possible answer. Propaganda.
Miller is exceptionally interesting on this issue: Americans, he says, have been the targets of an immensely successful propaganda campaign, conducted by their government, dating back to the Kennedy assassination. This campaign has re-wired how people think about elite power. And the media now, he says, “is completely unreliable, completely untrustworthy.”
Perhaps this is how we came to have this example of media credulity that boggles the mind:
I, for one, don’t want to be there when someone tells this blue-checked professional that Santa isn’t real either. Imagine!
Miller says:
While I have not done a deep dive into the Warren Commission report or psyops, and therefore cannot claim any agreement with Miller on them, his description of how propaganda becomes enmeshed with emotion in its victims is something I have experienced directly — by being attacked by former friends for having a different opinion than they do.
And even more importantly, Miller reminds us: “propaganda and censorship are two sides of the same coin.”
The whole interview is fascinating. I strongly recommend watching it. As Miller tells the host, comedian Lou Perez, don’t believe a word I say. Check it out for yourself.
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