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Noam Chomsky discusses the slogan “Support Our Troops”

the point of public relations slogans like “Support Our Troops” is that they don’t mean anything […] that’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that’s the one you’re not allowed to talk about.
- Interview on WBAI, January 1992

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    1992 making sense...2010 and beyond.
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    I highly recommend reading George Orwell’s “Politics and The English Language” to anyone interested in the rhetoric of...
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    Smartest man ever when it comes to politics.
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    this is important to remember when you are talking to someone like myself, who has no problems with saying that i don’t...
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    This guy would have really annoyed Nixon and Reagan
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