On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:32:59 -0700, Bill <bill@oldsarge.dougs.net>
wrote:

Spamming or telling the big lie or lies in general over and over and
over again does not make them real or true regardless of how much one
wants to believe in the lies.

The phrase Big Lie refers to a propaganda technique which originated
with Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf. In that book Hitler
wrote that people came to believe that Germany lost World War I in the
field due to a propaganda technique used by Jews who were influential
in the German press. This technique, he believed, consisted of telling
a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe anyone "could have the
impudence to distort the truth so infamously". The first documented
use of the phrase "big lie" is in the corresponding passage: "in the
big lie there is always a certain force of credibility".

Later, Joseph Goebbels put forth a slightly different theory which has
come to be more commonly associated with the phrase big lie. In this
theory, the English are attributed with using a propaganda technique
where in they had the mendacity to "lie big" and "stick to it".

There is an uncited rumor to the effect that Goebbels also offered up
his version of the big lie technique without attributing it to either
Jewish or Allied propaganda. That uncited quote is the most
wide-spread attribution of the big lie and it is usually given in a
context where the implication is that the propaganda technique was
invented by Goebbels, who was the propaganda minister for the Third
Reich.

The phrase was also used in a report prepared during the war by the
Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler's psychological
profile:

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never
admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in
your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that
goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one;
and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later
believe it. - OSS report

Mein Kampf extract
Hitler wrote in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf (James Murphy
translation, page 134):

All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself
- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility;
because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted
in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or
voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they
more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since
they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be
ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into
their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe
that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so
infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be
brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and
will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For
the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it
has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in
this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These
people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest
purposes. ...

Bill

You know what to take out by now...

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:32:59 -0700, Bill <bill@oldsarge.dougs.net>
wrote:

Spamming or telling the big lie or lies in general over and over and
over again does not make them real or true regardless of how much one
wants to believe in the lies.

The phrase Big Lie refers to a propaganda technique which originated
with Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf. In that book Hitler
wrote that people came to believe that Germany lost World War I in the
field due to a propaganda technique used by Jews who were influential
in the German press. This technique, he believed, consisted of telling
a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe anyone "could have the
impudence to distort the truth so infamously". The first documented
use of the phrase "big lie" is in the corresponding passage: "in the
big lie there is always a certain force of credibility".

Later, Joseph Goebbels put forth a slightly different theory which has
come to be more commonly associated with the phrase big lie. In this
theory, the English are attributed with using a propaganda technique
where in they had the mendacity to "lie big" and "stick to it".

There is an uncited rumor to the effect that Goebbels also offered up
his version of the big lie technique without attributing it to either
Jewish or Allied propaganda. That uncited quote is the most
wide-spread attribution of the big lie and it is usually given in a
context where the implication is that the propaganda technique was
invented by Goebbels, who was the propaganda minister for the Third
Reich.

The phrase was also used in a report prepared during the war by the
Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler's psychological
profile:

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never
admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in
your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that
goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one;
and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later
believe it. - OSS report

Mein Kampf extract
Hitler wrote in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf (James Murphy
translation, page 134):

All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself
- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility;
because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted
in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or
voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they
more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since
they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be
ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into
their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe
that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so
infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be
brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and
will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For
the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it
has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in
this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These
people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest
purposes. ...

Bill

You know what to take out by now...

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:32:59 -0700, Bill <bill@oldsarge.dougs.net>
wrote:

Spamming or telling the big lie or lies in general over and over and
over again does not make them real or true regardless of how much one
wants to believe in the lies.

The phrase Big Lie refers to a propaganda technique which originated
with Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf. In that book Hitler
wrote that people came to believe that Germany lost World War I in the
field due to a propaganda technique used by Jews who were influential
in the German press. This technique, he believed, consisted of telling
a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe anyone "could have the
impudence to distort the truth so infamously". The first documented
use of the phrase "big lie" is in the corresponding passage: "in the
big lie there is always a certain force of credibility".

Later, Joseph Goebbels put forth a slightly different theory which has
come to be more commonly associated with the phrase big lie. In this
theory, the English are attributed with using a propaganda technique
where in they had the mendacity to "lie big" and "stick to it".

There is an uncited rumor to the effect that Goebbels also offered up
his version of the big lie technique without attributing it to either
Jewish or Allied propaganda. That uncited quote is the most
wide-spread attribution of the big lie and it is usually given in a
context where the implication is that the propaganda technique was
invented by Goebbels, who was the propaganda minister for the Third
Reich.

The phrase was also used in a report prepared during the war by the
Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler's psychological
profile:

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never
admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in
your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that
goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one;
and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later
believe it. - OSS report

Mein Kampf extract
Hitler wrote in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf (James Murphy
translation, page 134):

All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself
- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility;
because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted
in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or
voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they
more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since
they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be
ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into
their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe
that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so
infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be
brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and
will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For
the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it
has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in
this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These
people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest
purposes. ...

Bill

You know what to take out by now...

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:32:59 -0700, Bill <bill@oldsarge.dougs.net>
wrote:

Spamming or telling the big lie or lies in general over and over and
over again does not make them real or true regardless of how much one
wants to believe in the lies.

The phrase Big Lie refers to a propaganda technique which originated
with Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf. In that book Hitler
wrote that people came to believe that Germany lost World War I in the
field due to a propaganda technique used by Jews who were influential
in the German press. This technique, he believed, consisted of telling
a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe anyone "could have the
impudence to distort the truth so infamously". The first documented
use of the phrase "big lie" is in the corresponding passage: "in the
big lie there is always a certain force of credibility".

Later, Joseph Goebbels put forth a slightly different theory which has
come to be more commonly associated with the phrase big lie. In this
theory, the English are attributed with using a propaganda technique
where in they had the mendacity to "lie big" and "stick to it".

There is an uncited rumor to the effect that Goebbels also offered up
his version of the big lie technique without attributing it to either
Jewish or Allied propaganda. That uncited quote is the most
wide-spread attribution of the big lie and it is usually given in a
context where the implication is that the propaganda technique was
invented by Goebbels, who was the propaganda minister for the Third
Reich.

The phrase was also used in a report prepared during the war by the
Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler's psychological
profile:

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never
admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in
your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame;
concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that
goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one;
and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later
believe it. - OSS report

Mein Kampf extract
Hitler wrote in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf (James Murphy
translation, page 134):

All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself
- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility;
because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted
in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or
voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they
more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since
they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be
ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into
their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe
that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so
infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be
brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and
will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For
the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it
has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in
this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These
people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest
purposes. ...

Bill

You know what to take out by now...