Lies are lies - "Big Lies" propaganda

Lies- "collusion-delusion"- an echo editorial published in the Denver Post, a Colorado newspaper.

The Big Lie - a propaganda technique. 

An expression coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". 

To the Editor of the Denver Post: Now, lying has become the norm in American culture. 

We see it so often in so many different forms that it is no longer of much concern. Just lie, and if that doesn’t resonate, just lie again until it does.

An infuriating example of that was on display by Paul Manifort’s lawyer right outside the D.C. courthouse where Manifort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, had just been sentenced to another three and a half years in jail by Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

Judge Jackson noted that any claim about “no collusion” was a “non sequitur” and was irrelevant to the trial. 

Yet, it took only minutes after Judge Jackson made those remarks for Manifort’s lawyer to claim that the judge had just “conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any Russian collusion in this case.”

That could not have been further from the truth, but this lawyer, with a straight face, said it anyway. His misleading statement will undoubtedly be repeated by the Trump administration and accepted by many as truth.

We now live in a country where lying just doesn’t seem to matter as long as it supports a particular ideology.

Bob Kropfli, Golden- Colorado