Larry Wilmore is a complete genius. I like him for lots of reasons - he is a truly brilliant and hilarious award-winning writer, producer, comedian

He has some of the most incredible insights you have ever heard into communication, and politics.

On Larry’s podcast - Black on the Air - from January 16, 2021 - just ten days after the January 6 assault on the US Capitol, he helped explain communications and even political propaganda in a way that was incredibly powerful and perceptive, based on insights derived from the deliberate deception that is crafted as part of being a stage magician.

It helped me - as someone who has been in politics and dealt with communications for a long time - gain incredible new insight into how we are deceived - between lies, truth - and something more insidious - paltering.

Here's Larry Wilmore's webpage - http://thelarrywilmore.com

Here's the link to his original podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/sam-pollard-on-mlk-fbi/id1234429850?i=1000505504716

Here's his appearance at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IDFt3BL7FA

Here's the link to the book, Performing Deception

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781800646902/brian-rappert/performing-deception?blnBKM=1

The 90's Book of Lists

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Almanac-Presents-Book-Lists/dp/0316920797

From Open Culture:

How Propaganda uses lies to erode all truth and morality -

https://www.openculture.com/2017/01/hannah-arendt-explains-how-propaganda-uses-lies-to-erode-all-truth-morality.html

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