This morning, after hearing “If you see something, say something” for the umpteenth time waiting for my Long Island Rail Road train, I couldn’t help but think that it will sound silly in 20 years. I know I’ll hear it one day and remind myself that it was spoken over the PA system at the train station every couple minutes, and I’ll likely think about it the way I think about “Loose Lips Sink Ships” or any of those other WWII-era phrases that strike me as propaganda today.
What sayings of today do *you * think will be labeled propaganda after the benefit of 10-20 years’ worth of perspective?
Tom Ridge admitted after he left office that there were times during the election when the administration wanted to raise the threat level on very flimsy evidence.
I think the image of the Saddam statue falling in Baghdad is another example of propaganda from our current era. It was meant, IMHO to be evocative of the statues of Lenin coming down in Eastern Europe. The important difference between the two events is that the statues in Eastern Europe were pulled down by Eastern Europeans, while the stature in Baghdad was pulled down by US soldiers with a few dozen Iraqis looking on.
