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- Characterize the charges as "mmors" or, better yet, "wild rumors." If, in spite of the news blackout. the public is still able to learn about the suspicious fac ts. it can only be through "rumO<S." Qf they tend 10 believe lhe · rumors" it must be because lhey are simply · parancicf" °' "hysterical.") 4, Knock down s1raw men. Deal only with 1he weakest aspects of the weakest charges. Even beller. crea1e your own slraw men, Make up wild rumors (0< plan1 false slo<ies) and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all lhe charges, real and fanciful afike.
- Call the skeptics names like "conspiracy theorist," "nutcase," "ranter," "kook," "crnckpot," and, of course, "rumor monger." Be sure, too, to use heavily loaded verbs and adjectives when characterizing their charges and defending 1he "more reasonable" government and ;ts defenders. You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned. For insurance, set up your own ·skeptics" to shoot down.
- Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out 10 make money (compared to over-compensa1ed adheren1s 10 lhe government line who. presumably, are not).
- Invoke authority. He-re the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.
- Dismiss the charges as "old news: ·
- Come half.elean. This is also known as · confession and avoodance" or "laking the limiled hangou1 rou1e." This way, you create the imptession of cando, and hones1y while you admi1 only \o rela1ivefy harmless, lessahan-criminal "mistakes." This s1ra1agem often requires lhe embrace of a fall -back position quite different from the o,ie originally 1aken, Wilh effeclive damage conlrol, the fall-back position need only be peddled by stooge skeplics lo carefully limiled markets.
- Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.
- Reason backward. using 1he deduclive me1hod with a vengeance. With 1horoughly rigorous deduction. 1rout)lesome evidence is irrelevant. E.g. We have a completely free press. If evidence exists that the Vince Foster · suicide" note was forged, they would have reported it. They haven't reported it so there is no such evidence. Another variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a conspiracy leaker and a press who would report the leak. 12., Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely. E.g. If Foster was murdered. who did it and why?
- Change the subject. This lechnique inc ludes creating and/or put)licizing dislractions.
- Lightly repon incriminating facts, and then make nothing of them. This is sometimes referred to as "bump and run· reporting.
- Baldly and brazenly lie. A favorite way of doing this is to attribute the "facts" furnished the public to a plausible.-sounding, but anonymous, source.
- Expanding further on numbers 4 and 5. have your own stooges "expose" scandals and champion popular causes. Their job is to pte-empl real opponenis and 10 play 99-yatd football. A varialion is 10 pay rich people forlhe job who will p,etend to spend lheirown money.
- Flood the Internet with agents. This is the answer to the question, ·what could possibly motivate a person to spend hour upon hour on tntemet news groups defending the government and/or the f)(ess and harassing genuine critics?" Don t the authori ties have defenders enough in all the newspapers. magazines. radio. and television? One would think refusing to print critical tellers and screening out serious callers or dumping lhem from radio 1alk shows would be control enough, but. obviously, it is not.
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