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Kevin Molloy's avatar

I struggled with this one Miri when you announced it was fake (when will I learn). But yes, a week on, and so many holes. Megyn Kelly insisting on going live right through all of it, and then she and Tucker and Candace have spent most of the next week clearly enjoying themselves. Often bursting into laughter.

And I think you're dead right about Tucker. I think he is the absolute key for them. His monologues for some reason when he wants to dial them up are completely mesmerising. You just find yourself nodding dumbly along 'yes'. And as you say, all these marmite Christians coming out of the woodwork to damage the brand. I watched as Tommy Robinson led huge crowds in the Lords Prayer. And as you say, it's scripted. Brilliantly scripted. It's an interactive experience. At first I couldn't understand why they let Hollywood fall, it was their greatest achievement. But they've simply shifted their operation to the news. Real life is now the film, and we all participate. And as we participate we get pulled further in.

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Goblins Under the Apple Tree's avatar

The fundamental weakness that gives a free pass to all the phantasms of the media is the basic “niceness” of the public mind. Thus, what makes all those official accounts so indubitable in this public mind has got nothing to do with whether the ruling clique COULD behave so atrociously. It’s the paralyzingly naïve idea that the ruling clique just WOULDN’T behave in such a way.

That’s why technical arguments revolving around the melting point of steel or funny lighting angles on the alleged moon shots will never get through – not for as long as the trusting “They just WOULDN’T!” attitude persists.

But the moment that “They just WOULDN’T!” starts to mutate – against enormous resistance of course – into “You know, I think they WOULD!” then that changes everything.

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