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Eleanor Iselin engages in an interesting scheme of manipulation, and frankly avows that to her husband when he complains that she never tells him to give the same number twice of Communists in the Defense Department. By way of explanation, she says this:{{cquote|What are the newspapers of America writing about, and what are they saying? Are they saying, "Are there any Communists in the Defense Department?" Of course not! They're asking, "''How many'' Communists are there in the Defense Department"!}}

Eleanor Iselin engages in an interesting scheme of manipulation, and frankly avows that to her husband when he complains that she never tells him to give the same number twice of Communists in the Defense Department. By way of explanation, she says this:{{cquote|What are the newspapers of America writing about, and what are they saying? Are they saying, "Are there any Communists in the Defense Department?" Of course not! They're asking, "''How many'' Communists are there in the Defense Department"!}}

In short, by keeping the news organs and their readers and viewers guessing, Mrs. Iselin invites people to accept ''a priori'' that the Defense Department has Communists in it, although an objective observer ought to have noticed that when a man cannot tell the same story twice in succession, he is usually lying.

In short, by keeping the news organs and their readers and viewers guessing, Mrs. Iselin invites people to accept ''[[a priori]]'' that the Defense Department has Communists in it, although an objective observer ought to have noticed that when a man cannot tell the same story twice in succession, he is usually lying.

=== Manipulation of popular emotion ===

=== Manipulation of popular emotion ===