This is about the propaganda I talk so much about. It's taken out of Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda 2nd Edition (by Noam Chomsky, published 2002)

"Mohawk Valley formula" or "Scientific methods of strike-breaking" worked very effectivaley by mobilizing community opinion in favor of vapid, empty concepts like Americanism. Who can be agaisnt that? Or Harmony. Who can be against that? Or, as in the persian Gulf War, "support our troops." Who can be against that? Or Yellow Ribbons. Who can be against that? Anything that's totally vacuous. In fact, what does it mean if somebody asks you, Do you support the people in Iowa? Can you say, Yes, I support them, or No, I don't support them? It's not even a question. It doesn't mean anything. That's the point. The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything. They mean as much as whether you support the people in Iowa. Of course, there was an issue. The issue was, Do you support our policy? But you don't want people to think about that issue. Thats the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be agaisnt, and everybody is going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question
that does mean something: Do you support our policy?"

"Just in the two years that George Bush has been in office three million more children crossed the poverty line, the debt is zooming, educational standards are declinging, real wages are now back to the level of about the late 1950's for much of the population, and nobody's doing anything about it. In such circumstances you've got to divert the public, because if they start noticing this they may not like it, since they're the ones suffering from it. Just having them watch the Superbowl and the sitcoms may not be enough. You have to whip them up into fear of enemies. In the 1930's Hitler whipped them into fear of the Jews and Gypsies. You had to crush them to defend yourselves. We have our ways, too. Over the last ten years, every year or two, some major monster is constructed that we have to defend ourselves against."

This is just a small sample. Definatly a book worth looking into.