Joe McGinniss quotes
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“Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.”
-- Joe McGinnissSource : Joe McGinniss (2012). “The Selling of the President”, p.23, Byliner Inc.
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“Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.”
-- Joe McGinnissSource : Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”
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“With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.”
-- Joe McGinnissSource : Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”
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“The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.”
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“We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.”
-- Joe McGinnissSource : Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”
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