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"Schapp explained that a Harvard neurologist had helped him to understand the power of the neurological impact upon human cognizance, intellectual functioning, and reasoned decision making when the same story is told over and over again. That impact makes the story a kneejerk part of the people who are exposed to it. Even if they are convinced on one occasion by powerful evidence to the contrary, the next day will usually find them reverting to the long-held belief, which has become a part of themselves--often integral to their very identity. Nothing less than some sort of intense deprogramming experince with ongoing reinforcement is required ."
I added the part in brackets. This is from p. 136 of, "An Act of State," by William F. Pepper, the international human rights attorney who brought a civil action suit on behalf of the family of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., which found, on the basis of unimpeachable evidence, that the plot to murder Dr. King was a conspiracy involving J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, the local Memphis police, and organized crime figures from New Orleans and Memphis. Naturally no major media covered the story. Schapp testified as an expert on government use of the media for disinformation and propaganda purposes.
So the person on the religious right who is dismayed by the White House ties to a gay prostitute today, will revert tomorrow to believing that Bush is a moral Christian. And as long as prostitutes, and by prostitutes I do mean not just actual prostitutes like Gannon, but also all the other types of media whores, control the media, that's how things stay.
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