Take the time to watch this piece-of-work all the way through. It will clue you in to something that’s been running under the surface of the internet that mixes political adverstising (and real defamation) with a commercial cover. It is pure Bernays. And it works well with people with time on their hands, curiosity about something different, and enough respect in a community to get the message seen in a friendly light. It is of course straight-up 120-proof half-truth. It is also calculated to subtly lead you along.
Will this be CROOKED Hillary’s secret revenge
What is interesting is where it came from. It came from a Lockerdome ad linked to Washington’s Blog. That points to a human assignment or a matching algorithms as one of the factors in distributing this Bernaysian advetising across the web. The ad insertion cleverly perverts the flow of logic in the Washington Blog article. I don’t know how many political blog operators look for this sort of stuff.
Here is the Washington Blog article. I’m curious to know if this ad is still there for another viewer.
How to Instantly Prove (Or Disprove) Russian Hacking of U.S. Election.
If you’ve never seen one of these slow-unroll long-form ads, take the time to see how this one is constructed. If you’ve sat through a longer than 10-minute ad (generally for health-related books or health supplements), you can safely skip this one, which pivots off of Hillarycare and uses standard American health care as the argument for Hillary as a killer.
What is strange about this ad is that it is not clear whether an entrepreneur is expressing his political opinionns or is just pitching and identifiable psychographic.
These are the only people identified as affiliated with the Health Sciences Institute:
I wonder how many of them know they are associated with this sort of Bernaysian political advertising.
When I closed the window, Firefox asked whether I wanted to save or leave the information on the page. I would advise evaluating your own risk viewing this long ad despite its helpfulness in identifying a troubling part of the internet.
Could this be the operation of a national covert operations group? Yes. But it is so inexpensive that it could be attributed to any number of actors. One would have to have definite provenance information to determine who actually paid the freight.
