guest post by Gor-Lak, alien guide
I’ve enjoyed all the feedback I’ve gotten since announcing I was going to be covering master publicist Roger Stone’s blog, Stone Cold Truth here on the Tanster Project. One question I’ve gotten a few times is what does disinformation mean? Since I dislike repeating myself, I’m just going to say it here for everybody. Ready? Here goes.
A disinformation agent takes an uncomfortable fact, admits to at least part of it, and then spews a total bunch of preposterous malarky no one would ever believe all over it. The agent can now say the story has been debunked. It’s kind of like money laundering but with the truth.
Pizzagate is the classic example. That was a first rate disinformation psyop run by a pro.
As a quick review for those with short attention spans, Pizzagate started as a reference to the unusual pizza toppings John Podesta favors, as revealed by Wikileaks dumping his emails online. Some suspicious people speculated that his topping preferences might just have been pedophile code words.
That was the story. Then it morphed into a child sex slave ring run by Hillary Clinton in the basement of a DC pizza place. Guess what? No basement there. Debunked. But what about the original emails? DEBUNKED!
Clever right? John Podesta is a brilliant PR guy who knows how to do effective damage control. The nugget of uncomfortableness got drowned in a salty bath of nonsense. You can’t even find the original emails anymore. All the search terms lead to a New York Times article. It’s not like those guys had any reputation to lose at this point. Am I right?
So, is Roger Stone using his blog to spread similar disinformation? The man is a pro publicist. He could write a book. In fact he has. Several. He knows all about the disinformation psyop. That’s what I’m expecting his blog to be loaded with. I’m going to be disappointed if it isn’t. Please don’t disappointment me, Roger.