[lbo-talk] Chemical Weapons found

[David Mandl]

I remember some member of the Reagan administration was quite 
explicit about this.  Something along the lines of, "Millions of 
people read the original claim in the newspapers, and a couple of 
dozen read the correction."  They actually took of advantage of this 
fact by having Ron make blatantly incorrect statements--once the 
statement is made on national TV and covered in all the papers, it 
really doesn't matter what happens the next day.

    --Dave.


>From: loupaulsen at attbi.com
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Chemical Weapons found
>Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:23:00 +0000
>
>The "hard science" behind all these stories is that no matter what the story
>actually says - suspected weapons were found, were not found, are still being
>looked for, might be there, HERE THEY ARE!, oops, no they aren't, etc etc etc
>etc etc., they all build up a cognitive association between "Iraq / Saddam
>Hussein" and "chemical weapons".  When you think of one, you think of the
>other.

-- 
Dave Mandl
dmandl at panix.com
davem at wfmu.org
http://www.wfmu.org/~davem