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Critical Times for Critical Thinking

June 20, 2008 - 8:35 am - by Elizabeth Scalia
mishu
2008-06-20 11:05:54

There’s a billion dollar advertising industry that tries to separate you from your money using a rhyming jingle. Logically, you wouldn’t believe women would find you irresistible if you use a certain brand of pit stick but the imagery and jingle still gets stuck in your head and you reach for that brand regardless. That’s what the left was able to do with this issue on Iraq. They got a rhyming jingle to convince people as opposed to reasoned logic.

It doesn’t matter how many people were stating the same thing as George Bush prior to the invasion of Iraq. It doesn’t matter if they were on the other side of the aisle. It’s the jingle that remains. As demonstrated by the flawed thinking in JG’s post, the truth is what people agree upon not what really “is”.