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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Seaver....if I recall from many polls over the last 6 years, around 1/3 of Americans believe the Bush administration knew about 9/11 in advance and either by intent or through incompetence, let it happen.
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The explanation to that belief lies here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie
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The Big Lie is a propaganda technique. It was defined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf as a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously".
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Along those lines, probably 85% of the US population (an unsubstantiated estimate on my part) believe that Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. Judging from the financial and emotional support afforded to Jeremiah Wright, a great many blacks think AIDS was targeted at blacks by "the white race," whatever that is.
Your argument about what the "majority believes" is both a fallacy and a propaganda technique "Argumentum ad populum".
For reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
Bush has been far from perfect, but he is not the root of all evil.