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TDSWJS: April 5, Segment 1: If you voted for Obama, this Doc won't do your dick

It's in segments like this one where I often part company with Stewart, and where Stewart often also reveals his corpoRat affinities. He knows perfectly why the Health Insurance Parasites have set thousands of cubicle drones to work to find and exploit the many hundreds of loopholes which the CorpoRat AUTHORS of the fucking bill installed for their own convenience while laving Max Baucus' prostate last summer. He'll pick on some dumb schmuck doctor, but the BEEEEG money he leaves studiously alone...

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Here's A Shocker, by golly! NYC Cops Have KTND Quotas

KTND = "Keeping the Negrows Down!"

We Owe It All to Eddy*

*Eddy = Edouard Bernays, Freud's favorite nephew and amanuensis during the old man's visits to the States. He coined the phrase "The Manufacture of Consent," which Chomsky/Hermann used to title their (1980s) book...

I have been raving about this for about 25 years. Glad to see it coming to more notice:
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Part II:

The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.

Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the motorcar.

His most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.

It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate today's world.

Why Should "Faith" Absolve Believers of Ridicule?

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