{"id":85347,"date":"2023-06-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85347"},"modified":"2023-06-14T08:41:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:41:22","slug":"repeat-a-big-lie-often-enough-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85347","title":{"rendered":"Repeat A Big Lie Often Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We started seeing it alwt week, with EJ Dionne&#8217;s puff piece in the <em>NYTimes<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And over the past few days, you&#8217;re seeing Public Relations via Goebbels 101 in action:  repeat something over and over and over until the gullible and uncritical start accepting it.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It started last week &#8211; the DFL&#8217;s functionaries and pet media referring to this past session as a &#8220;Minnesota Miracle&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note the coy presentation below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Whatever you want to call it, &quot;Minnesota Miracle 2.0&quot;, or something else &#8211; there&#39;s no denying that what we did this session will have a tremendously positive impact for Minnesotans for generations to come.  Happy to play a small part in making this happen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eozpM14vvX\">https:\/\/t.co\/eozpM14vvX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ken Martin (@kenmartin73) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenmartin73\/status\/1668023529088987138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Whatever you <em>want <\/em>to call it?&#8221;   The DFL is spending <em>big money <\/em>and redeeming big political capital to try to push the idea that their legislative orgy was, not a Mafia-like twisting of &#8220;moderate&#8221; arms after spending $18 for every GOP dollar to win the Senate by 300-odd votes, but a &#8220;Miracle&#8221; of progressive governance.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, they &#8220;won&#8221; the session.  They got everything they wanted, and then some. . The GOP wasn&#8217;t even a speed bump (somewhat unforgivably, in terms of the bonding bill IMO). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why would  the DFL feel the need to pimp so hard for the public image of their &#8220;colossal achievement&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/most-minnesota-voters-think-that-the-state-is-on-the-wrong-track\/\">Oh.  That&#8217;s why<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started seeing it alwt week, with EJ Dionne&#8217;s puff piece in the NYTimes. And over the past few days, you&#8217;re seeing Public Relations via Goebbels 101 in action: repeat something over and over and over until the gullible and uncritical start accepting it. It started last week &#8211; the DFL&#8217;s functionaries and pet media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85363,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85347\/revisions\/85363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}