Gen. Jack Keane on Lou Dobbs last night suggested a sentiment similar to what Trump is saying.
That there was NO WAY such material should have been in a briefing in the first place for it then to have the “stature” that enabled anti-Trump media to have an excuse to run with it.
It is a pure propaganda technique.
One makes accusations of any kind, no matter how wild, and then those accusations are covered by the press.
Even the rebroadcaster speaking against the accusations enables the technique of ‘insinuation’ to come into play s, and also the technique of ‘appeal to authority’ since an authority was looking at it. (See FR 2001 thread by Fixit on Propaganda techniques — http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/546409/posts )
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I think a reposting of your old thread in the editorial section would be really useful these days:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/546409/posts
FIX: Finish this sentence: If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, it says ________________ about the Republican Party. Now, explain.Stevens: Well, it means that the Republican Party will lose the White House and the Senate and probably deservedly so. Trump is a ridiculous candidate who knows nothing about how to fix this very troubled country. He embraces hate to further his personal ambition. He has a despicable character of insecurity that preys on the weak, mocking the disabled. This is a man who has so little idea of his own self-worth that he requires as, he put it, "a young and beautiful piece of ass" on his arm to feel good about himself. If the party that has taken Bill Clinton's morals to task were to embrace Donald Trump, it would surely make Bill Clinton the happiest man on the planet. It would show Republicans as hypocritical opportunists, and he'd get to move back into the White House.