Has the Bush administration used advertising and other manipulative techniques to fool the US public?
964444
Having a plant (Jeff Guckert) in the White House Press corp to ask softball questions.\n\nPaying Anderson Cooper to write favorable op ed stories about "No Child Left Behind.\n\nCensoring the results various government studies, selective publishing of same.\n\nSending propaganda to local news stations who label it news.\n\nAre just a few examples.  There are many more.\n\nAll administrations do PR, Bush Admin. has reached new lows in that area.
792811
I was almost afraid to look at your link (after the one yesterday).But this one is a good one. Never did the Liberal media let us Know how many of our presidents used this same ability. It was used as a propaganda tool against president Bush. Liberals were  fooled again.
462024
historically propaganda has proven to be an effective tool to manipulate public opinion hitler and stalin among other leaders have demonsrated how to properly abuse this power, only a few corporations own American mainstream media, from t.v. to magazines this is how our news becomes so biased and censored. what can be done we can turn off our tv more often and read our news and listen to our radio from independent radio sources and support these institutions and vote down any legislation that attempts to subvert this one freedom we should all take the time to exercise,we can also remain skeptical and consider thesource of our information and how it may serve certain interests of certain parties and question anything that only offers one view,remain aware, and resist being manipulated by our fears
20854
big brother is always watching, regardless. and bush isnt the one doing it. it is usually the military. they just prefer to have all fingers pointing at the president. he is nothing but a puppet anyway.
1133518
I think a lot of the reason it seems that the Bush Administration seems to get away with everything is because of the media.  The media doesn't hold their feet to the fire like they would if this was a Democratic Administration.  If President Clinton had done one tenth of what President Bush has done, they would have impeached him and had him out of office years ago.  The Bushies have the media in their back pocket and then claim that the media is too liberal.   It's part of the problem when corporations own media companies.  Look at how they stuck their head in the sand over the Iraq War.  It's a shame, because this President should be held accountable for what he's done.
100777
I'm taking your question seriously. I don't think that that's happened to me in the way that you're implying - like "The Manchurian Candidate," for example. But I do think that we are all susceptible to mind control through the media. Not the evil-scientist, direct-to-the-brain kind of thing, but I'm manipulated by television programming and advertising all the time. It changes my life in measurable ways as well as insidious ones.\n\nThink of how television commercials are set to be louder than the program you're watching, so that you won't be able to escape them when you walk out of earshot of the TV. (The fact that most TVs now allow you a setting to compensate for this only shows that the manipulation actually exists.) \n\nElectronic manipulation probably doesn't look like the mind-control movies. It looks like bright lights, snazzy ads, peer pressurized consumer campaigns, airbrushing, makeup, computer graphics, and web addresses that catch my attention and funnel me over to the computer, where I turn my attention away from the physical world, towards the electronic one.
354065
It's thought provoking until you find that it was just a manipulation itself, biased, innaccurate and a polished and creative, though very underhanded attempt to use propaganda against Bush and Iraq like so many liberals continue to do.
697943
1984 it is!  And most of us thought it was just a fictitious premise, but we're are seeing it played out daily.  Scary, Isn't it?\n\nI am more annoyed at the everyday American for allowing themselves to be duped in the first place and to continue to defend the charlatans in the white house and elsewhere.\n\nPlus they would be the first to say they did not support these liars when they finally have no choice but to admit the inventive administration is a major cause of most of the strive in the world.
1139477
I think that the Bush administration may be trying to do something like that, but the public is much more cynical than it was in 1980 when the Reagan adminstration pulled off theirs.  If they did it, they might see a boost in their base, but the backlash might hurt them even more.  I could see the Dems saying, "well, why didn't you find them earlier?" and the public dismissing it off as a political stunt.  \n\nIt also wouldn't surprise me if the public believed that the Bush adminstration planted them there as a trick.  I could definitely see it happening, because the lack of trust in the adminstration right now is an all-time low, and I doubt a trick like that would work in this election.
242283
Being fooled. Period.
319071
Yes, advertisers do it and I call it lying. Politicians often do it too.  Religious people do it,  but they don't know any better.  Understatement is closer to the truth.
1027088
the Bush administration knows psychological warfare applied on its own citizens... they're raking in billions of dollars out of them.. so Americans should know this...
208154
Not I, however the Bush Administration IS.
906854
Probably in advertising.
58047
If they are selling something then there is propaganda...not much of a mystery there.
814454
No tips was quickly shunned as an obtrusive anti-constitutional measure and is not in operation, that is if you trust this administration rhetoric\n\nthe tips program below is NOT the one your question is referring to but rather the broad dating mining suggested and attepted to be initiated by the Bush adminsitration via Poindexter the disgraced republican
1175440
Well, they say they are not tolerating, but, after all, the administration has the power to control the media and twist the truth as well as to guide the masses to its will!