A Case in Point

Political propaganda specializes in half-truths and innuendo. Winston Churchill told us how it is done.

A case in point is the recent statement by Reince Priebus about Hillary Clinton. In a Face The Nation Sunday interview, he said that Hillary Clinton took "money from kings of Saudi Arabia and Morocco and Oman and Yemen."  A Politifact article rates his statement as half true. It should have quickly pointed out that the statement was misleading and untrue in several aspects.

So, even in correcting the obvious trickery in Priebus' words, the article waits until the last few lines to state the facts. But the headline reads, "Hillary Clinton took money from the kings of four countries, GOP chief Reince Priebus says" Now, which do you think most who see the article will note and remember. Will they remember the correction or the headline? 

I will link the article so you can see for yourself how it is done:  http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2015/apr/20/reince-priebus/hillary-clinton-took-money-kings-four-countries-go/

And again I will caution you to be a careful consumer of information this political season. Question everything!