I have now read the entire document and I have followed a great many of the footnotes and references included in the PDF as well. Google was also my friend.
Folks, you owe it to yourselves to read this thing.
Although the author is more than a little passionate about what he thinks about Obama and his arrogant and deceitful use of these techniques, he goes on to back it up with known science and thorough analysis.
The techniques Obama is using are identified, explained and demonstrated. They are accepted by the experts in the field as especially powerful and effective among the young, but also among many who do a lot of reading. (think students, journalists, academicians...)
He shows why this is much more effective in long speeches than it is in debates, short conversations or town hall situations. (30 minute CBS final TV campaign time slot, anyone?)
The author makes a disturbingly solid case that Obama is not just a charismatic orator, not even just a dabbler in these methods, but a highly skilled and accomplished practitioner of the art of covert / conversational / Eriksonian hypnosis.
As the media guru Marshall McLuhan is reported to have said, “Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.”
Thank you for your post. I was wondering - would you be willing to post it as a new thread linking back to this one? I am afraid this has fallen off the pages - more people need to see it. In the event that Obama is using these techniques (and I believe he is) then that 30 minute pre-football game infomercial of his has me worried. It would be good if freepers had another chance to look this over, and some encouragement to stsay with the document through to the end because it doesn’t become persuasive until you check the footnotes, references, and read all the way through.
Then - it would be nice if (yeah...I am making my Christmas list early) that those who don’t have time for this kind of thing or who are even more skeptical than I was, could be given (youtube) a cliff’s notes version of what to watch for during his 30 minute SuperBowl infomercial. If they had a “fill in the blank” form (write down the last word he says before each pause, check the boxes for triggers etc.)to ‘play’ along with while he talks - it could illuminate and interest people.
btt