Guy Smith | April 22, 2013
Tweet“Most voters still get their news from television,” a Rasmussen survey sadly reported before dropping the big bomb. “[They] consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy.” Any serious student of media and propaganda rapidly comes to the conclusion that if one strives to be misinformed, they must watch the evening news. This is [...]
Guy Smith | April 19, 2013
Tweet“All that happened today was the preservation of the loophole that let’s dangerous criminals buy guns without a background check, it did not make our kids safer. So all in all this was a pretty shameful day for America,” was Barack Obamas summation of a defeated gun control proposal. “The gun lobby and its allies [...]
Guy Smith | April 15, 2013
TweetAmerica’s Political Theater of the Absurd has a new set of actors. Completely anticipatable, but always surprising, are outburst from politicos and propagandist. Their campaigns are largely punctuated with rhetorical nonsense which we cooler heads dismiss as partisan positioning more designed to firm a base than sway undecided voters. Yet once in an increasingly frequent [...]
Guy Smith | March 11, 2013
Tweet“If you have to believe in something,” said a wise old uncle, “believe in science. But only if you have to believe.” Science isn’t all it is cracked up to be since many shady shamans pose as scientists in order to pluck money from someone’s pocket (typically taxpayer purses). Their magic trick is trade upon [...]
Guy Smith | January 21, 2013
TweetWhat is the difference between Barack Obama and Ignatius Loyola? Not a hell of a lot. I’m thumbing through a copy of The Ten Commandments of Propaganda, a book by my academic buddy Brian Patrick. Aside from being a well-rounded review of the dark art, Brain illustrates historical cornerstones of propaganda, which includes Ignatius. The [...]
