“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”
C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
'People with well-polished shoes generally have something to hide.' Craig Brown, Spectator October 11 2012
There's a memorable line in the film Love at First Bite, when the Communists kick Dracula out of his castle because they want to turn it into "a training camp for our young athletes." As he leaves, he warns them: "Remember this - without me, Transylvania will be as exciting as Bucharest on a Monday night."
'The Kiev putsch of February 2014 is one of the most significant events in European history since the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. It is time we were honest about it, and time it received proper attention.'
She probably believes Craig Robertson was a freedom fighter not a Trump cult member with too many guns.
ReplyDelete"'People with well-polished shoes generally have something to hide." People like your clients?
ReplyDeleteLily walked away with a whopping 24 percent of the vote in the 2022 primary. Keeps her up at night, no doubt.
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