How to
spin snake oil…
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George:
Back in the wild west days, a medicine man would show up in a community of
people with aches and pains and coughs and colds and give them snake oil and
relieve them of a lot of money. He’d be gone before any of the sufferers
noticed that the so-called medicine didn’t work.
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Bill: An
apt metaphor. But I would add that this particular conman is under the control
of a man with a plan, an éminence grise.
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George:
You think the éminence grise tells the conman what to say?
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Bill: How
to spin the story, the timing of the diversions.
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George:
But those early morning tweets, are they all in the plan?
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 |
| Whoever controls the media…? |
Bill: This
éminence grise has a hard job controlling his puppet. The conman goes way too
fake with his stories, over-performs with child-like tantrums. Still, the spin
and the spiel help distract the people from the snake oil product.
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Voice-over
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A snake oil salesman has few qualifications, sells phoney medicines using fake evidence. To drive sales, accomplices often kick up a rumpus.
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A snake oil salesman has few qualifications, sells phoney medicines using fake evidence. To drive sales, accomplices often kick up a rumpus.
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