Jeremy Scahill: The United States Has Become A 'Nation of Assassins' With Drone Attacks

[Bolo Boffin]

119. Take a look at another BBI thread down below, the religious belief one.

I'm reading a book right now called "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. The research in that article is based on a lot of the same social psychological work Kahneman has done all his life.

What Better Believe It is doing is called priming. (The Wiki link I tried to add isn't working right, so if you would, do a search for priming. The Wiki article should come up.) Pay special attention to the "In Daily Life" section of that article - it's the closest to what Kahneman talks about. By posting every derogatory article BBI thinks he or she can get away with here at DU, he or she makes sure that President Obama is always, always, always seen in a bad light here. By continually associating the President with these stories and all the hyperbolic rhetoric in them, BBI guarantees that it is harder for DUers to vote for the President.

What's true of religious beliefs in that other article is actually true of any belief statement made by people, as Kahneman shows. The research is unmistakable. The constant association of President Obama with any and all bashing wears down enthusiasm and support for him. Of course we should hold him accountable for bad decisions and things we don't agree with. But BBI is going further than most DUers. The range of articles reproduced incessantly, even duplicated here at DU from other DUers, tells me that BBI is actively trying to depress the vote for Barack Obama by blurring the differences between he and Mitt Romney.

And that will help Mitt Romney.

This isn't about maintaining an unthinking faith in Barack Obama. It's about maintaining any support of him in the face of a relentless assault of negative news and rhetoric about him by someone dedicated to ensure a steady flow of such material.