First read the headlines, then read the pictures. Matt Drudge's headline in extra-large, full caps, red font states, “PALIN: OBAMA COMMENTS DISQUALIFY HIM FOR COMMANDER IN CHIEF.” Then you'll notice that Drudge has replaced Senator Obama with OJ. Coincidence? I think not.
The next line of images are of the stock market meltdown in the left sidebar; in the center column there is a side shot of Speaker Pelosi grinning; and in the right sidebar is Governor Palin winking.
Although Palin's statements are bogus and misleading at best, it fits neatly in the framework of Hitler's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels: “Big Lie” theory. For those unfamiliar with Hitler's anti-Jewish propaganda campaigns, read the following quote from Hitler's henchman Joseph Goebbels:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
"It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Now Matt Drudge is calling the brownshirts in the Republican base. By using the propaganda technique of transference. As Drudge replaced the picture of the Democratic nominee with OJ Simpson. In doing so, Drudge layers the “big lie,” with the inborn negrophobia of the Republican base.
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