by Daniel Celovsky
January 16, 2023
What is propaganda and what isn’t propaganda?
How the hell are we to know?
I engage on the Twitter platform. I enjoy it. I have connected with some great wonderful people that I can have discussions with that lead to answers. Sometimes there is rage. Sometimes there is humor. More times than not, there is inspiration. I enjoy it for the most part.
But Twitter can be annoying. We do not know what information or who is being suppressed and what or who is being amplified behind the scenes. Those controls are being handled in the back rooms and we have little knowledge of who is controlling what. We do know that our own government interferes and directly influneces it. The recent “Twitter Files” investigations and news releases have attested to that confusion.
One such example has been a relentless barrage of tweets (aka posts) issued by Rob Reiner. I have been trying to find out what Mr. Reiner’s motivation for his constant tweets are all about. They have been going on for months or longer. What is driving him to post them? They are odd to say the least.
I have discussed this on Twitter with some of my “Twitter Friends”. But we cannot get to the direct bottom of what Rob Reiner is all about.
I know of Rob Reiner from his acting role as Meathead Mike Stivic from the 1970s sitcom All In the Family and as a good movie director (Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, And So It Goes among others).
But it is his politics that seems absolutely mysterious. He tweets constantly. And every one of his tweets is just an echo chamber of the US Democratic political party talking points. His tweets completely follow the script issued by the DNC (the Democratic National Committee). I am sure many of you have seen them - they are relentless.
That leads to some questions.
First, what is Michael Stivic (I mean Rob Reiner) doing? What is his objective? What role does he have in politics other than the role of a citizen like the rest of us? I am sure he has other activities to pursue and invest his time into. Another movie would be a great idea and a much better use of his time and talents. He is a good director after all.
What is his reason for spending so much time on Twitter? And it is constantly only on one single topic: The “Democrats Are Awesome” topic. Is there no other issue important in his life? Can the “awesomeness” of the Democratic Party be his sole passion? His hobby? That strikes me as odd.
Secondly, how come he never presents his own thoughts? Every tweet religiously follows the scripted talking points of the Democratic Party - the same talking points echoed by the corrupt media outlets favored by the DNC, including MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post (they are not journalists so I will not call them that - separate story). He is a bright guy. Can he not form his own thoughts and opinions?
Furthermore, he rarely - if ever - replies to any comments posted to his tweets. So, he is just dumping his posts into Twitter and abandoning the scene.
In contrast, I, and just about every one of my Twitter friends, routinely respond to most of the comments others post on our tweets. We aknowledge them. I am sure most people do the same. Mr. Reiner disappears from the scene as quickly as he posts his tweets.
Do not get me wrong here. Somehow Mr. Reiner is parroting the DNC-issued script so it is like he has been hired to do just that. It is as if he is given a daily commique to follow along with so that he is in sync with the rest of the DNC Establishment and their media employees. His complete lack of issuing independent thoughts just begs that these questions be asked.
Those first two questions are pretty well personal to Mr. Reiner. Of course, he can say what he wants which is his right under free speech. He cannot be denied that. It just strikes me as odd that he would invest so much time to parrot talking points and never be able to state his own personal opinion or nuance on them. Maybe it is just a mental obsession? Better than a bad drug habit I guess.
The third question starts to take some deeper twists and turns. It is the question that really demostrates how badly the journalistic failures of our news media has damaged us all - it is at the level of damaging society itself.
Why would Mr. Reiner work so hard and consistently to amplify the messaging of any single political party? Why? I would not do it - and most people I know would not do that.
I am asking for a motive here. A motive to explain Mr. Reiner’s behavior so that it makes sense. We live a world of perpetual propaganda being drilled into us. (Yes, it is a terrible place to find ourselves in and our government has allowed it to happen - but once again that is a seperate essay). Does anyone know what is driving Mr. Reiner to become an unofficial spokesperson for the DNC? Your comments are welcome and any answers to this mystery are appreciated.
I have come across a list which has been issued repeatedly (again, sourced from Twitter).
Rob Reiner shows up on this list as being associated with Jeffrey Epstein and his underage-sex crimes. Is Mr. Reiner a criminal? I do not know. Where does this list come from? I do not know. Is this list valid? I do not know. All I know is that it is circulating around and his name is on it. Someone usually posts it as a comment on every one of Mr. Reiner’s tweets. He never responds to them.
Of course, if we had the list of those involved with Jeffrey Epstein we would know for sure. The government seized video tapes from Epstein. They seized documents from Epstein. But, the government chooses not give us a list of who were actually on the video tapes that the government has in its possession. Issuing that list would exhonerate the innocent and allow us to focus on the guilty. The absence of the information is as damaging as having the information would be. It seeds propaganda.
There is nothing I can do about this. If someone has more information that would lead to answers, please put them in the comments below.
I am a victim of propaganda and have to come to conclusions based on the information I can gather. Mainstream journalism has abandoned us so we cannot count on their input.
Let’s dig even deeper. Let’s take this to the next logical step - assuming this list and my conclusion based on it has validity. It is a logical scenario.
Jeffrey Epstein placed prominent public fugures into compromising positions. He set them up and then video taped them in criminal acts. He made these tapes - most likely - to enable himself and/or others to extort these individuals for their own motives and interests. Extortion tapes. Power, money, coersion and corruption.
This is a natural conclusion to make based on the information we do have (not fact per se because we are not given the reliable facts that exist). Could Rob Reiner be extorted to promote the DNC agenda under the threat of releasing compromising tapes because he is on the Epstein list and/or video-tapes?
We cannot know for certain because we are not being provided with the information that exists and that the government has. The government works for us so it is our information. There is no national security risk to prevent us from getting a list of who appeared on those tapes. Yet, we do not get it. Must be some names on it that they do not want us to know (yet another story for another time).
Yes, it sounds like a conspiracy theory - I am asking if it is a valid theory. I am trying to find that out in the sea of propaganda that our government has created for me to live in. I am looking for answers because I see the dots connecting here.
The absence of reliable information plus the proliferation of constant propaganda does beg us to make our own conclusions. We are limited to the information we do have. As far as Mr. Reiner goes, his own actions when taken in conjunction with the information we do have - which may be false - certainly leads to speculation such as I am speculating here.
Suffice it to say that my speculation is derived from the limited information I have available to me. The dots connect. I apologize to Mr. Reiner if I am wrong. However, his actions do open the door and he has not responded directly when asked. I would absolutely prefer the actual information to give me the clarity.
The state of information in our society leaves me no other choice. Questions deserve answers. Mr. Reiner is in my twitter feed telling me things that I find offensive because he is issuing propaganda to me. He does not answer the comments and questions myself and others make on the tweets that he posts.
It should not be this way. We should have a government and a media that we can trust. But, we do not have that. They have taken our trust from us.
We live in an ocean of propaganda. I am adjusting to it.
Propaganda is a weapon used against people. It is also a weapon that can boomerang right back on those that issue it. Consider this to be a boomerang.