On 06/03/2010 03:21 AM, Bob Ackley -> Dave Drum wrote:
 BA> Replying to a message of Dave Drum to Earl Croasmun:

 DD>> "A lie told often enough becomes the truth. -- Vladimir
Illich Ulyanov
 DD>> (1870 - 1924)

 DD>> "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will
 DD>> eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for
 DD>> such time as the State can shield the people from the political,
 DD>> economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes
 DD>> vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress
 DD>> dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by
 DD>> extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. -- Joseph
 DD>> Goebbels (1897 - 1945)

 BA> For your store of miscellaneous information, Goebbels' given first name
 BA> was Paul. He preferred to use his middle name 'Josef'. He is usually
 BA> referred to as 'Josef Goebbels' or 'Joseph Goebbels.'

He also credited Woodrow Wilson's propagandist, George Creel (head of
Wilson's "Committee for Public Information" (CPI)) for showing
how to manipulate information and mislead the people without their knowing.

It may have shock value to invoke Goebbels, but he only picked up where
Woodrow Wilson's CPI left off.

Ed

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