'DEADLY ASSAULT CLIPS' AND MANAGED PERCEPTIONS

摘要

The Brady Bunch is at it again. Their latest anti-gun effort is a classic of "managed perceptions"-better known as propaganda. Cleverly, they've adopted Hitler's Big Lie technique. But this being the Internet age, they're able to use images and implications to convey untruth more subtly than liars of the film-and-newsreel generation ever could. Consider this 30-second ad: A young man at a shooting range dons safety glasses and earmuffs. He snaps an extended magazine into his Evil Black Handgun as spooky music builds. Blam-blam-blam-blam-blam. And more blams. Brass clanks. The implacable shooter expends more than two dozen rounds before an announcer can say, "A magazine that allows a gun to fire 32 shots in 16 seconds is only good for one thing: killing a lot of people fast. And that's something we can live without. Assault clips. They make everyone a target. Tell President Obama to ban assault clips."