Propaganda

Struggling to justify a recent television spot that reached new heights of deception, a top operative in Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign put it plainly, while insisting on anonymity:

“First of all, ads are propaganda by definition. We are in the persuasion business, the propaganda business…. Ads are agitprop…. Ads are about hyperbole, they are about editing. It’s ludicrous for them to say that an ad is taking something out of context…. All ads do that. They are manipulative pieces of persuasive art.”

This is the conservative view of such things because it has to be. Their public policy sucks. Only through deception can they shift the blame for their disastrous results. Progressives have no such burden to bear. For us the truth will do just fine. History has our back.