The art of the smear: How Buzzfeed and other propaganda mills "debunk" those questioning the Official Narrative of COVID-19 (CORRECTED)

[Mark Crispin Miller]

I've corrected a few typos, and added some names to the list at the end.

 

As "our free press" ramps up its loyal service as Big Pharma's Ministry of Truth, 

it's doing an ever cruder version of the Propaganda Two-Step, which you perform 

by pumping out Big Lies non-stop, while also blacking out and/or defaming anyone 

who dares to contradict or question them.  

 

We have an excellent example of the latter tactic in this wad of excrement from 

Buzzfeed, hurled at six "spin doctors" (i.e., dissident physicians), two "5G conspiracy 

theorists," and two of "the misquoted" (two doctors whom Buzzfeed's minions couldn't 

find a way to tar outright). 

What makes it such a good example is the blatancy of its key features. Note, first,

that it does not even address, much less refute, any of the information offered,

and/or arguments presented, by the heretics. Instead of actually rebutting what 

they've said or written, this hit-piece (along with countless others) smears the 

heretics themselves, with mere insulting epithets and vicious mockery. 

Such propaganda must rely primarily on slander and derision, because what those 

dissidents have said, about COVID-19 and/or 5G, is either true or highly plausible—

which means that the Official Narratives in question are untenable. This is why

such hit-pieces are so nakedly authoritarian, "debunking" its targets just by telling 

us "what the authorities have said."   

Thus this piece baldly tells its readers what to think (or, rather, what to feel,

since there's no thought involved), and how to serve as individual vectors

of the propaganda; and so it isn't just a catalogue of smears, concocted

to discourage anyone from looking into what those targeted have had to

say. It also functions as a sort of script, providing Buzzfeed's followers

with ammo to be used on "social media," and/or in fights with any infidels

among their friends or family.

Although the number, unanimity and virulence of such attacks is something

new (and grounds for seeing it as a sign of desperation), the basic strategy 

is over half-a-century old, as it was the CIA that first weaponized the epithet 

"conspiracy theorist" back in 1967, in its memo #1035-960, sent out to CIA

station chiefs worldwide to enlist their help in smearing critics of the Warren

Report, not just by calling them "conspiracy theorists," but also by deploying

one or more of several (what we would call) talking points against them. 

What we're seeing today is a streamlining of that process. Whereas, back

then, the CIA encouraged its media assets to defame those questioning

the Official Narrative (of JFK's assassination), so that readers would then

doubt the honesty or sanity of those dissenters, today, the culture having 

largely moved online, the propaganda aims directly at its audience, inviting 

them to spread its toxin all throughout the tissues of the nation, by parroting 

the memes of the Official Narrative (of COVID-19, 5G, vaccination and whatever 

else the powers behind the propaganda want the rest of us swallow). 

Here, for your convenience and enlightenment, is a list of dissidents re:

COVID-19, its origins, and/or the policies and practices now being used to 

"cure" it. This is just a start on such a list of medical professionals, nor do 

I necessarily agree with everything those listed here have either said or 

written—but they have every right to speak their piece, and those of us 

who care to know what's really going should give them a fair hearing, 

and think about it for ourselves.

John Ioannidis

Knut Wittkowski

David L. Katz

Rashid Bhuttar

Dan Erickson

Artin Massihi

Dolores Cahill

Sunetra Gupta     

Didier Raoult

Luc Montagnier

Meryl Nass

Cameron Kyle-Sidell

Wolfgang Wodarg

Judy Mikovits

Andrew Kaufman

Andrea Crisanti

Russell Blaylock
Rashid A Buttar
Sherri Tenpenny

Gary Nepute

Gary Null

Richard Gale
Joseph Mercola
Johan Giesecke
Anders Tegnell 

David Starkey

MCM   

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