@georgeob1,
Quote:The problem with it is that it would have fir our Declaration of independence quite nicely.
Well who could argue with that first sentence? Because I think we all know that you could, with ease, identify as thoroughly equal:
- Jeffersons words
- Lincoln at Gettysburg
- Trump's twitter compositions and campaign rhetoric
Clearly, each man set out to accrue power and a voter base through serial untruths, bullying and humiliation of opponents, and the fomenting racial and religious animosities. Obviously, the Declaration itself and Lincoln's description of it were both driven by a need and strategy to accrue personal power and to squash any apparent opposition to that accrual of power. What could be more sensible than your analogy here.
Quote:A good example of an old and rather stale journalistic trick. Write your own convenient definition that fits something you wish to slander, and give it a bad label of your choice.
That's intellectually cowardly, george. With constructions such as that one, you permit yourself to discount any notion which leads to conclusions that don't match your partisan wishes. Another way that cowardice shows up is your refusal to work out specific definitions of such phenomena. I have asked you to join me in developing a definition of "propaganda" and you have refused, suggesting that I was demanding something untoward, perhaps unfairly setting you up in the manner of a prosecutor.
