The Illusory Truth Effect: How Millions Were Duped By Russiagate

Fogdog

Fogdog

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squarepush3r said:
You can understand, then, how a populace who is consuming repetitive assertions, innuendo, and incriminating questions on a daily basis through the screens that they look at many times a day could be manipulated into believing that Robert Mueller would one day reveal evidence which will lead to the destruction of the Trump administration. The repetition leads to belief, the belief leads to trust, and before you know it people who are scared of the president are reading the Palmer Report every day and parking themselves in front of Rachel Maddow every night and letting everything they say slide right past their skepticism filters, marinating comfortably in a sedative of cognitive ease.

And that repetition has been no accident. CNN producer John Bonifield was caught on video nearly two years ago admitting that CNN’s CEO Jeff Zucker was personally instructing his staff to stay focused on Russia even in the midst of far more important breaking news stories.

“My boss, I shouldn’t say this, my boss yesterday we were having a discussion about this dental shoot and he goes and he was just like I want you to know what we are up against here,” Bonifield told an undercover associate of James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas. “And he goes, just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords. And the CEO of CNN said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we’re done with it, let’s get back to Russia.”

(And before you get on me about O’Keefe’s shady record, CNN said in a statement that the video was legitimate and disputed none of its content, saying only that it stands by Bonifield and that “Diversity of personal opinion is what makes CNN strong, we welcome it and embrace it.”)

Zucker, for his part, told the New York Times in an article published yesterday that he was “entirely comfortable” with CNN’s role in promoting the Russiagate conspiracy theory the way that it did.

“We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did,” Zucker said. “A sitting president’s own Justice Department investigated his campaign for collusion with a hostile nation. That’s not enormous because the media says so. That’s enormous because it’s unprecedented.”

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“We are not investigators”? What the fuck kind of dumbass shit is that? So it’s not your job to investigate whether what you’re reporting is true or false? It’s not your job to investigate whether the anonymous sources you’re basing your reports on might be lying or not? It’s not your job to investigate whether or not you’d be committing journalistic malpractice with the multiple completely bullshit stories your outlet has been humiliated by in the last two years? It’s not your job to weigh the consequences of deliberately monopolizing public attention on a narrative which consists of nothing but confident-sounding assertions and innuendo?

“We are not investigators.” So? You’re not dentists or firefighters either, what’s your point? That has nothing to do with the mountains of journalistic malpractice you’ve been perpetrating by advancing this conspiracy theory, nor with the inexcusable brutalization you’ve been inflicting upon the American psyche with your deliberate nonstop repetition of bogus assertions, innuendo, and incriminating questions.

The science of modern propaganda has been in research and development for over a century. If you think about how many advances have been made in other military fields over the last hundred years, that gives you a clear example of how sophisticated an understanding the social engineers must now have of the methods of mass manipulation of human psychology. We may be absolutely certain that there are people who’ve been working to drive the public narratives about western rivals like Russia, and that they are doing so with a far greater understanding of the concepts we’ve touched on in this essay than we have at our disposal.

The manipulators understand our psyches better than we understand them ourselves, and they’re getting more clever, not less. The only thing we can do to keep our heads while immersed in a society that is saturated with propaganda is be as relentlessly honest as possible, with ourselves and with the world. We’ll never be able to out-manipulate the master manipulators, but we can be real with ourselves about whether or not we’re selecting for cognitive ease rather than thinking rigorously and clearly. We can be truthful with our friends, family, coworkers and social media followers wherever untruth seems to be taking hold. We can do our very best to shine the light of truth on the puppeteers wherever we spot them and ruin the whole goddamn show for everyone.

It may not seem like a lot, but truth is the one thing they can’t manipulate, whether it’s truth about them, truth about the world, or truthfulness with yourself. The lying manipulators got us into this mess, so only truth can get us out.
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All of this from somebody who tells us of the threat the Illuminati in their haunted castle.

Just consider the source and look for people who understand facts and truth treat posers and gullible people as entertainment. Like the X-files.. Illuminati are real? @squarepusher ?
 
Fogdog

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Jefferson1977 said:
Most people are not very intelligent (because they don't like to think) and only want to confirm their political biases, which is why they believed this lie that was generated by a bunch of people who had trouble accepting that they lost the election.
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Because "did not establish" is the same thing as didn't happen?

Barr's summary report was damning because he said there was evidence, just not enough to convict. By the standards your kind apply towards Hillary, Trump is guilty as all hell. Lock him up.

Right?

Release the report.
 
Bugeye

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Moses Mobetta said:
After all he has done it never ceases to amaze me there are those who will continue to support him. Wait for it...Someone's going to blame a democrat
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Everyone is blaming democrats, it was a hoax investigation. Adam Schiff has les led you on a wild goose chase. Don’t forget which party ran a corrupt primary in 2016.
 
tangerinegreen555

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Bugeye said:
Everyone is blaming democrats, it was a hoax investigation.
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tangerinegreen555 said:
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Except for the 56% that think there was collusion.

Not looking good for 2020. No trust of the current government.

I wonder why?
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Try winning from a non expanded base, many of whom are worried about losing health insurance.

Demagoguery can't replace trust unless you're a dumb fuck that believes anything.

Wait till the skeletons start falling out of the tax returns.
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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tangerinegreen555 said:
Try winning from a non expanded base, many of whom are worried about losing health insurance.

Demagoguery can't replace trust unless you're a dumb fuck that believes anything.

Wait till the skeletons start falling out of the tax returns.
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But they are trying for the Jewish vote. And just the other day I put some Curtis Mayfield on the yootube and it started with a "We stand with Donald Trump" ad.

So they've got that going for them.

 
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schuylaar

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Jefferson1977 said:
Right, that's why all those republicans started the Russia collusion narrative....oh wait..


What collusion?
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the collusion that he felt he needed to write a bogus letter on Air Force One saying Don 'Cheeto-in-Training' Jr meeting, was about adoptions.

that collusion..

how many flags do you have on and how high is your F250?
 
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