“The reason propaganda works is that most people are too involved or too stupid to recognize it as propaganda. People claim to understand the bias and filter it out, but that's absurd. Of course they don't.”

—  Ann Coulter

2002, Ann Coulter : Left Is 'out to Destroy the Country' (2002)

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