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May, 2006

  • Levin Pummels Straw Kennedy. 2006-05-09 4:36 PM.
    • Commentary
    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    I find it illuminating to note when political commentators use the techniques of propaganda. Mark Levin, writing in his National Review blog, recently beat the crap out of an imaginary straw man: Patrick Kennedy & Double Standards. (I found the article via. 317 words.

June, 2006

July, 2006

July, 2007

  • Media Accidentally Reports Fiction In Iraq. 2007-07-03 10:34 PM.
    • Commentary
    • thomaskrehbiel.com

    QandO has an important observation about terrorist propaganda and the news media. A few days back there was a story about 20 beheaded men found near Baghdad. QandO reports that the MNF-I (Multi-National Forces in Iraq – that’s the good guys) investigated and found the story was completely false, yet several news outlets reported it anyway (including CNN, as you can see from the link). 170 words.

September, 2017

  • Rush Limbaugh Versus The Hurricane. 2017-09-08 9:22 PM.
    • Politics
    • swampip.com

    You know the liberal bubble is 100% airtight when people actually believe Rush Limbaugh said that a hurricane is a liberal hoax. Exclusive video of Rush Limbaugh fleeing Florida after calling Hurricane Irma a liberal hoax. pic.twitter.com/PZcloMao4n — Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) September 8, 2017 Rush Limbaugh - who called Irma coverage a liberal hoax - has decided to flee the liberal hoax. — Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) September 8, 2017 220 words.
  • Behind The Tweet: Letter of Intent. 2017-09-09 11:48 AM.
    • Politics
    • swampip.com

    Yet another example of why you should never trust a tweet. Saw this on Twitter: BREAKING—In mere weeks we went from "no collusion with Russia" to "here's a Letter of Intent Trump signed with some Russians while running." pic.twitter.com/GcFmGRnpd8 — Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) September 9, 2017 Seth Abramson, a lawyer according to his bio (but mainly a pundit) said, and I quote, “here’s a Letter of Intent Trump signed with some Russians while running.” 230 words.
  • Straw Man Tweets. 2017-09-20 10:24 PM.
    • Politics
    • swampip.com

    It occurred to me while browsing through my Twitter timelines that there are a lot of tweets that have built-in straw man logical fallacies. They usually follow one of these forms, which I’ve made up: Them: Some ridiculous claim that doesn’t make sense. Us: That’s a ridiculous claim that doesn’t make sense! “The moon is made of green cheese.” That’s dumb! Everybody knows the moon is made of blue cheese! 427 words.
  • Insidious Propaganda Labels. 2017-09-24 10:01 PM.
    • Politics
    • swampip.com

    I have to be extremely careful about this post, because it’ll be easy for someone to pick out some words here and there and conclude that I’m a white supremacist racist bigot kitten killer. I think “white nationalist” is one of the most insidious negative propaganda labels I’ve heard in a while. It dawned on me one day that you can use that label to describe basically any white person who expresses any positive sentiment about their country. (America, in this case.) 368 words.

October, 2017

  • The Race To Condemn Politicization. 2017-10-02 7:27 PM.
    • Politics
    • swampip.com

    One other observation about Las Vegas: In the wake of mass shootings in America, another important battleground for activists of all stripes is the race to place blame on who politicizes the event first. Activists believe that whichever party America thinks politicized the event first “loses.” So it is incumbent upon Republicans to point out if Democrats try to use shootings to enact gun control legislation, and it is incumbent upon Democrats to point out if Republicans try to cover up domestic terrorism. (That is pretty much standard operating procedure for activists in every situation every day, to be honest.) 100 words.

November, 2017

  • Republican and Democratic Propaganda. 2017-11-16 10:08 PM.
    • Politics
    • swampip.com

    Today is one of those days when I’m not entirely sure if Russian propaganda on Twitter is worse than Republican and Democratic propaganda on Twitter. Al Franken has been accused of groping and kissing a woman in 2006, before he became a senator. “I couldn’t believe it. He groped me, without my consent, while I was asleep,” Leeann Tweeden says, including this photograph in her accusation. https://t.co/iLphI1wiLU pic.twitter.com/kLKSmLwu36 — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 16, 2017 194 words.