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In reply to the discussion: Please allow me to introduce myself [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)That is used all the time on right wing sites without context, and it's being used here to ride over any argument that this could be a good pick for the job. No facts are necessary and won't change the minds of those seeing that subliminal. The misuse of the body language is used to say by right wing propaganda every day:
'See, he's an elitist, not one of us. He is laughing at your pain and wants to hurt you.'
It works just as well on the left as the right, as you can see from the piling on here. Even Sarah Palin's terminology is being used, without anyone daring to oppose it. It's a subtle way to make Obama seem untrustworthy, evil, the anti-Christ, that they've employed since 2008. It sets into the mind until those who followed the truth of these details, but won't be listened to.
They know in their gut that Obama can't be trusted to do anything good - because a video with the words edited out is so effective to create an aural memory; but even more powerful is a picture which carries more information to the subconscious and never leaves. And every conclusion jumped to goes through that filter.