I looked up the word "shill" and realized it needs to be extirpated from the English language, because it is based on the possibility of two or more people collaborating to commit a crime, an idea that could only be arrived at after coming up with a "false conspiracy theory." Since anyone considering a "false conspiracy theory" (according to say, Faux News and some Constitutional Scholars) is a loon, I must be a loon for considering it. Therefore I must not under any circumstances think that thought. After all, there are no shills on TV are there?
You can find a definition HERE.
"Shills are often employed by confidence artists. The term plant is also used. Shill bidding, found on many auction sites such as eBay, is punishable by law[1] and may result in fines and or prosecution."
...and although definitions are very important EXAMPLES are priceless for clarification of concept; so click on the following link and take a look-see: "RAW STORY: Pentagon used psychological operation on US public, documents show" An excerpt from the article:
" In Part I of this series, Raw Story revealed that Bryan Whitman, the current deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations, was an active senior participant in a Bush administration covert Pentagon program that used retired military analysts to generate positive wartime news coverage.
A months-long review of documents and interviews with Pentagon personnel has revealed that the Bush Administration's military analyst program -- aimed at selling the Iraq war to the American people -- operated through a secretive collaboration between the Defense Department's press and community relations offices.
Raw Story has also uncovered evidence that directly ties the activities undertaken in the military analyst program to an official US military document’s definition of psychological operations -- propaganda that is only supposed to be directed toward foreign audiences. "
(Pssst..... articles referenced demonstrating that propagandists are planted in our media are posted only for the sake of example. Do not allow the facts presented to spark conspiratorial thoughts of the existence shills.)
Please also ignore the information linked in this "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand" article which includes portraits of the jolly propagandists who fed disinformation to an electrified war-mad American public. Here's a sample:
"To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.
--paragraphs later---
...members of this group have echoed administration talking points, sometimes even when they suspected the information was false or inflated. Some analysts acknowledge they suppressed doubts because they feared jeopardizing their access.
A few expressed regret for participating in what they regarded as an effort to dupe the American public with propaganda dressed as independent military analysis.
---paragraphs later---
... Kenneth Allard, a former NBC military analyst who has taught information warfare at the National Defense University, said the campaign amounted to a sophisticated information operation. “This was a coherent, active policy,” he said."
But don't let the facts fool you because the very existence of shills is dependent upon YOUR willingness to entertain the outlandish notion that a conspiracy may be afoot. Such dangerous thoughts, known as "false conspiracy theories" have been identified by
brilliant Law Pontiffs as danger signals requiring you to be stripped of your inalienable right to free speech.
Conclusion: Since the very word "shill" implies a "conspiracy," I must, as a Patriotic American, expunge the word from my vocabulary thereby preventing "BAD THOUGHTS." This process will "KEEP ME SAFE" from "TERRORISTS" in the "HOMELAND" who may have broken through "SECURITY." Now I feel "TERRORIZED" like a "WIMP."
Got that? Now practice your new skills as a robot by watching this segment from Howard Stern. Remember not to consider anything requiring consideration of conspiracy or treason:
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5.20.2009
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