#BYOIR
Congressional debate over FARA put a lot of focus on foreign manipulation of US media

The Byoir contract ($6,000/month from Nazi Germany to influence U.S. media) was a centerpiece of the hearings record.
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA): Background and Issues for Congress
www.everycrsreport.com
May 2, 2026 at 3:04 AM
In the wake of the Blake Lively scandal I'm begging @iwriteok.bsky.social to do an episode on Carl Byoir: the man as much responsible for modern Public Relations as anyone else.

rigged.ghost.io/carl-byoir/
Carl Byoir
Born to Polish Jewish immigrants in Des Moines, Iowa, Carl Byoir started his career like a lot of the PR men we've profiled here: working for a newspaper. At just 17, he was appointed managing editor ...
rigged.ghost.io
December 27, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Though I thought my dad handsome, Don Draper was much moreso! Years ago, I sat down to watch Mad Men, and found myself watching my life. My dad worked for Carl Byoir & Associates in the 60s, and SC Johnson (Johnsons Wax, etc.) was his biggest account.
February 28, 2026 at 2:03 AM
There's certainly a lot of Bernays in here, along with plenty of Ivy Lee, Carl Byoir, John Price Jones, Arthur Page, James Selvage, John Hill, Harold Oram....
September 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Like Pete Kegsbreath and Puppy Killer Barbie, the Trump/GOP ICE thugs appear to travel with their own PR team and photographers.
(We taxpayers are picking up the tab for this grift.)

FYI, guess who else made use of American PR to sell evil to the public.
observer.com/2014/12/hitl...
Hitler’s Nazi Germany Used an American PR Agency
The Third Reich found an American ally in the ‘honored’ public relations firm Carl Byoir & Associates
observer.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:50 PM
This might motivate me to finally finish some research on my thesis that Carl Byoir perma-f*cked DC.
June 3, 2023 at 1:33 AM
Wright Patman, of the Robinson-Patman act hated him so much he used House floor time to call him out, after which he received death threats. Although to be fair he probably deserved it.

https://www.nytimes.com/1940/08/30/archives/spy-threats-laid-to-patman-charge-carl-byoir-publicity-man-says.html
SPY THREATS LAID TO PATMAN CHARGE; Carl Byoir, Publicity Man, Says Accusations Brought Promises of Death BOTH AT DIES HEARING Representative Asks Inquiry, Asserting Reserve Officer Is Nazi Propagandist (Published 1940)
Dies com hearing on Patman-Byoir case
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2023 at 2:37 AM
Because most people refuse to read, learn, think , gain knowledge and deal with reality. The United States Propaganda Machine. Hell the Nazis got their Propaganda techniques from an American Publicist company(Carl Byoir & Associates). anyway people are stupid.
July 28, 2026 at 5:18 PM
My goal in life is to get @iwriteok.bsky.social to do an episode of Behind the Bastards on Carl Byoir, who among other things started The March of Dimes for the most insane reason.
February 20, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The Nazis learned from us. Edward Bernays was perfecting his PR/propaganda handbook in the 1920s. The Nazis actually employed an American PR agency from the beginning (1933).
observer.com/2014/12/hitl...
*Bonus for the enormous irony of using a Harry Potter quote at the end.
Hitler’s Nazi Germany Used an American PR Agency
The Third Reich found an American ally in the ‘honored’ public relations firm Carl Byoir & Associates
observer.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM