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Blatant hypocrisy
-- [[User:RWest]] 11:54 25 July 2007
-- [[User:RWest]] 11:54 25 July 2007
==Clever, smirking schoolboy==
This is Gore's cleverest book yet, but it self-destructs. He accuses political people and the media generally of [[intellectual dishonest]], but he then pretends that it's Republicans and conservatives who do the lion's share of it.
His general comments are correct. He explains the techniques of propaganda glibly. But he leaves out the biggest, most successful technique of all. Blame everything on your opponents; accuse your opponents of everything kind of thing which you do, hoping to deflect attention from your own crimes.
This is the tactic of the Communists, who accused "government rascals" of various crimes - often with complete accuracy. However, their motive was not to bring about reform but to justify revolution. And then they committed crimes on an astronomically higher scale. South Vietnam had its "[[tiger cages]]" and may have executed as many as 50,000 people for suspected revolutionary activity; but Communist Vietnam, once it took power, killed '''half a million''' people. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 15:13, 8 August 2007 (EDT)