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**Peapeuddedbaw** · 01-19-2009, 10:45 PM

I don't even know the details, but it's an old tactic, especially in California, to pick out the most outrageous thing that could happen and say that it will happen if your opponent or your patron doesn't give you lots of money.

It's the way that NPR does business, for instance. Also, North Korea. It's amazing that supposedly well-educated, sophisticated people fall for this tactic so often.

NPR hasn't tried that since they inherited the McDonalds fortune. As for North Korea, I agree it's a stunt that they've pulled, but it's amazingly effective, as South Korea doesn't want the North to go under leaving them to pick up the pieces(reconstruction).

01-19-2009, 10:45 PM	#16
Peapeuddedbaw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	I don't even know the details, but it's an old tactic, especially in California, to pick out the most outrageous thing that could happen and say that it will happen if your opponent or your patron doesn't give you lots of money. It's the way that NPR does business, for instance. Also, North Korea. It's amazing that supposedly well-educated, sophisticated people fall for this tactic so often. NPR hasn't tried that since they inherited the McDonalds fortune. As for North Korea, I agree it's a stunt that they've pulled, but it's amazingly effective, as South Korea doesn't want the North to go under leaving them to pick up the pieces(reconstruction).
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