Goebbels Didn’t Say It

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. [Falsely attributed to Joseph Goebbels]

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Robert Malone is Fooled

Robert Malone, the notorious vaccine skeptic, has published a goofy article titled “Why Did so Many Fall for the Covid Narrative?” He manages two Goebbels misquotations. The first is the quotation this blog follows. He claims the world-wide COVID hoax is an example of Goebbels’s insights. He also cites Goebbels as saying something else, which again Goebbels did not say — it’s from the introduction to a book about Goebbels.

What does one say? I say it tells us something about Malone’s reliability, and it isn’t good.

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GrahamJuly 11, 2022 at 9:52 AM
I am rather sorry to put this as a community, but I could not figure out a way to contact you other than as a comment.
There is a quote I am particularly fond of despite the fact it is almost certainly a misquotation: “A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity” (Goebbels)
It is found on a variety of untrustworthy sites, but I was wondering whether you might know of its origin.
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AnonymousJuly 11, 2022 at 10:55 PM
Randall Bytwerk. I’m traveling at the moment, but will look into it when I’m back. Almost certainly a fabrication, although it is consistent with his thinking. What comes to mind is his comment that propaganda should be like a symphony orchestra, with different instruments playing the same tube.
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