{"id":37287,"date":"2018-09-03T08:04:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T13:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37287"},"modified":"2018-09-03T08:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T13:04:05","slug":"political-corpses-as-propaganda-props","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37287","title":{"rendered":"Political Corpses as Propaganda Props"},"content":{"rendered":"

Political Corpses as Propaganda Props<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The week-long deification of the late John McCain was quite the deep-state performance:\u00a0 Three<\/em> \u201cstate funerals\u201d(in Phoenix, D.C., and Annapolis) accompanied by the constant clucking of the \u201cmainstream\u201d media about how the epitome of a deep-state insider \u2014 son and grandson of U.S. Navy admirals, mass murderer of Vietnamese peasants, \u201cKeating Five\u201d criminal conspirator, friend of \u201cthe right kind\u201d of Middle East terrorists, lifelong government employee whose senate office was ground zero for defense industry lobbyists for the past several decades \u2014 is somehow an anti-establishment \u201cmaverick.\u201d The televised sobbing of the very appropriately named Senator Jeff Flake was rich, as were proposals to name a government building after McCain and the seemingly endless feigned sorrow in the voices of \u00a0television talking heads.<\/p>\n

Deep state propagandists and their media apologists apparently believe that a dead politician can be worth his weight in gold if a big enough spectacle of lies and superstitions can be concocted after the \u201cgreat man\u2019s\u201d demise and used in support of the current regime. As Murray Rothbard argued in an essay entitled \u201cThe Nature of the State,\u201d \u201cit is precisely the function of the State\u2019s ideological minions and allies to explain to the public that the Emperor does indeed have a fine set of clothes . . .\u00a0 The age-old success of the ideologists of the State is perhaps the most gigantic hoax in the history of mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n

As with so many other statist stunts and superstitions, it all started with Lincoln.\u00a0 As Larry Tagg wrote in his book, The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: The Story of America\u2019s Most Reviled President<\/em><\/a>, during his lifetime Lincoln was by far the most hated and despised of all U.S. presidents but became a \u201csudden saint\u201d in death.<\/p>\n

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Political Corpses as Propaganda Props The week-long deification of the late John McCain was quite the deep-state performance:\u00a0 Three \u201cstate funerals\u201d(in Phoenix, D.C., and Annapolis) accompanied by the constant clucking of the \u201cmainstream\u201d media about how the epitome of a deep-state insider \u2014 son and grandson of U.S. Navy admirals, mass murderer of Vietnamese peasants, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4763,3046,21498,545,637,655,1309,21497],"class_list":["post-37287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-john-mccain","tag-lew-rockwell","tag-murray-rothbard","tag-politics","tag-propaganda","tag-state","tag-thomas-dilorenzo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37288,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37287\/revisions\/37288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}