This is on the

This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

It's called disinformation, also misinformation, also conspiracy mongering.

All of these names come to an extremely effective political ploy, very effective, political ploy.

Very effective.

It works.

I welcome Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution,

a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution

writing most recently about how conspiracies work.

In this instance, its left-wing conspiracies, conspiracies that have been used over these

last years very

effectively, Corvidal taught me once many years ago and he very generously came on and we talked about a

book he'd listed. He said, John, never use the word conspiracy.

Coincidence will do.

Victor, a very good evening to you.

It's wonderful to welcome you back.

I'm going to use the word conspiracy

with that

conspiracy is a matter of denouncing the other side's information.

Conspiracy is a matter of denouncing the other side's information.

We start with what they have in common, all these

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