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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.

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 McGinniss
Political, Television, Voters
Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”

The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.

Joe McGinniss
Doe, Citizens, Vote

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 McGinniss
Men, Stronger, Events
Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

Joe McGinniss
Games, Political, Politics
Joe McGinniss (2012). “The Selling of the President”, p.23, Byliner Inc.

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 McGinniss
Fun, Long, Wife
Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”

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