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Edited on Thu Mar-24-05 09:05 AM by rpannier
In 1989, while I was in college I had the dubious honor of sharing a class with a man who claimed to be a nephew of Richard Viguerie (the man who helped sell Reagan to Americans through direct mail advertising) Whether he is/was his nephew is of little importance, what he said was. According to him His uncle and several other advisor's (Rollins and Buchanan were two of them) came up with a plan to offset any negative press about Reagan. Anytime a news story began coming to light that seemed outrageous, but was true, they'd float two or three stories that were equally outrageous but lies. As these lies circulated, the true story would get lumped in with the false stories and most people wouldn't believe any of the stories because the public saw them all as lies. I believe they DID do this and I believe the Republicans do it to this day. This is why I think it's hard to get people to act on the outrageous things that this administration does.
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