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Welcome back. Welcome back, Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Hey, let’s wrap things up. I want to give you a narrative machine update. I talked to you last week. I used that phrase, the narrative machine. It’s so powerful what the narrative machine is doing to the American people trying to tell you what to believe and being very effective at it, is really terrible stuff. So let me.
But let me walk you one specific example I want to show this to you. You over time, remember, I tell you often. Maybe I gotta come up with a better phrase, but in politics, in campaigns, it’s very rare that you have a knockout blow. It’s death by a thousand cuts. If you think now about how did a a president like Donald Trump, who had very popular policies, how did he? How did he get, how did they damage him? They did. They didn’t do one big knockout, but they did thousands and thousands of cuts. That’s how it works in politics, and that’s how the narrative machine works. They over time, they continue to build the little details. And here’s an example.
I was reading Politico as I tell you, I often do, and Politico had a piece that said What Ulysses Grant can teach Joe Biden. So right there. I’m like, oh, that’s kind of interesting. What Ulysses Grant can teach Joe Biden. I, I I like U.S. Grant. I’ve read a bunch of stuff about U.S. Grant. I was very intrigued recently. I I listened to a a book on tape on the history of the Siege of Vicksburg, which in this writing the, U.S. Grant U.S. Grant played a role, not the main role, but a big role. And it was interesting. And I like U.S. Grant. He’s got a Missouri connection. All that. So I thought, oh, wow, that’s an interesting topic. What an interesting phrase to use What, You know, What Ulysses Grant can teach Joe Biden, and then about putting down violent insurrections. OK, let’s click on that and see. And here’s the article. That it that. It it I mean, here’s an article that purports to make it sound like Joe Biden is going to have to kind of deal with violent insurrection all the time. And here’s the opening sentence. And this is my point about the narrative machine.
The opening sentence is: “The deadly siege of the Capitol in Washington, which sought to overturn a legitimate election by targeting lawmakers with assassination, was not the first attempted insurrection in American history.”
Now, OK. I know enough about siege, deadly siege. That’s a phrase. That’s a phrase that’s used sort of loosely. It wasn’t a siege, it was whatever it was. It was a, you know, vandalism or something. It wasn’t a siege. Then it was sought to overturn a legitimate election. No, it’s sought to, the people that were having the event, at the time. And the ones that were violent were something different. But the people that were there were saying use the actual legitimate laws about the election. And then it’s by targeting lawmakers with assassination. This is a canard of the left right now that somehow people were up there with a list of people to assassinate. And my point here is then the article goes on to talk about how Ulysses S. Grant. After the after the the the Civil War had to deal with this and that and the other thing. And then during the Reconstruction there were insurrections that popped up. The point is, they use history to slowly, you know, inculcate messaging and you don’t think about it. The phrase that’s often used by people is you’re you’re talking past the sale. You know you’ve already you. If you read that first sentence, you already think, Oh yeah, well, this is, of course the deadly siege. You’re and no one you’re not even questioning it. You wouldn’t question it. And that’s how that there’s another way that they do it. The words are important and the narrative is important. But the key is a thousand, you know, a thousand facts, a thousand facts to build their lie. A thousand facts, if you pulled back and saw all the facts you would say, well, that’s not the truth. That’s not what they want you to see. A thousand facts piled together strategically to give you evidence of the lie. That’s what they’re doing, and that’s a great example of it. I wanted to put it out there for you. I’ll put it, put it up on social media. As always, let me say thank you to our great technical director Noah for all he does thank you to Joanna for booking our guests and we will be back tomorrow. Thank you for listening. It’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. I look forward to talking to you tomorrow.
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