MSNBC Caught on Tape Admits Pushing Harris and Says It Made Viewers Dumber

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Hmm, let's see...

• "Of course they're biased, everyone know that!"
  
• "Well Fox News is just the same, O'Keefe never mentions that though!"
  
• "This is edited and taken out of context."
  
• "LOL did O'Keefe wear a dress for another gotcha honeytrap?"
  
• "Sure is convenient that this is being released in October."
  
• "In Russia or China you can't even have competing news organizations!"
  
• "Who is this O'Keefe guy? Never heard of him."
  
• "Grifter. Just looking for money."
  
• "Only Boomers still watch TV News."
  

Did I miss any?

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie—a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days—but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.
- Hannah Arendt, Interview with Roger Errera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FkoMm1hs1g

 

A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds. Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
https://archive.org/details/TheOriginsOfTotalitarianism

It's from chapter 11. Pretty late in the book.