“So Biden now has “unfounded accusations?...These people just reflexively write that.”
Sometimes it’s quite deliberate. “Premise smuggling,” I’ve heard it called. They’re accusing Graham of something, and on the way, they slip in the assertion—disguised as a fact—that the accusations against Biden are “unfounded.”
They hope that people will just file that away without noticing or thinking about it in any way, and sometimes people do, which is why premise smuggling works. Some non-zero number of people who read this crap will accept and repeat the notion that the accusations against Biden are “unfounded.” Probably without even noticing that they’ve been gaslighted.
Always gotta keep your antennae out for premise smuggling, because it’s just another type of lying.
We ALL know Graham was in on this Ukraine BS!!!
Interesting...I didn’t know it was a named technique. Makes perfect sense and it’s obviously a good and easy way to promulgate the “big lie.”
I wonder how many people fall for it and internalize it vs the number enraged by it and see right through the propaganda.
Reminds me of all the hoopla about “subliminal messages” a few decades back.