Don Laird

[Wayne Johnson]

Does anyone remember infamous, ex-Nazi, Dr. Dietrich Dichter who was a major
advisor/contributor to Madison Ave some years ago?  When asked why he
designed ads that increased people's fear & paranoia, he replied, "someone
was going to do it, it may as well be me."

Ad in question: Fasteeth ad where a "grandfatherly type" when faced with
eating corn on the cob with his dentures, is suddenly changed into a giant
child-in-diaper-in-high chair.  Really humiliating stuff...but then, that
was the "hook".   I believe he also dreamed up the ads where "women" walk
into residential bathrooms and do a "white glove test" UNDER the lavs.

I am NOT making this up.

Afterall, if our Russian/Foreign Policy can be based on the "informed data"
provided to us by former Gestapo spies, why not use some of Goebbels ex's as
well?

WJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@ando.pair.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: ATTN: Don Laird


> Chomsky in a spoken address given at a
> conference circuit explained that the
> 1954 Guatemala intervention was sold to
> the American people using Madison Ave
> techniques. To entertain the audience he
> brought up alter cocker Bernays as the
> paradigm of amoral Madison Ave.
> advertisers selling something. Bernays
> orchestrated the Chesterfield campaign
> to make cigarette smoking by women
> acceptable in the 1920s.
>
> Bernays as Mary Ann Wilson reports was
> active on the conference circuit in the
> mid 1980s. To read this talk on a Web
> page and infer that Bernays was billing
> the CIA $1000 a day in 1954 in aid of
> selling the Guatemala intervention to
> the American people is to read it WRONG.
> Chomsky is not making such an inference.
>
> http://www.lol.shareworld.com/zmag/articles/chomoct97.htm
>
> You sent a 27k letter to austin-ghetto-list
> about this -- that is ONE long letter,
> easily beating out Roger in his earlier days.
>
> your presence on our list is not to be utilized for
> ranting because you are not ONE OF US. this
> is clearly spelled out in Rule 22.
>
> Roger up to now our chief ranter, who IS
> one of us, has learnt to paste in URLs
> when he wants to make a point. Please do
> the same.
>
> ONE OF US by the way refers to people who
> knew one another in Ghetto Daze
>