Let’s be clear:Â no one should advocate censorship.
That said, we need to understand the power of language. Images matter, words matter, what you say has an effect. Every propagandist in history has grasped this essential truth. Without oratory, Hitler and Goebbels would never have turned Germany into a killing machine.
The only antidote, however, is not less but more. Not more propaganda, just more words, more images, more information. More truth.
Ah, but, as the man said, What is truth?
Sarah Palin, or her speech writers, has decided to play with that a bit and compare the criticism against her rather fevered rhetoric to the Blood Libel. …