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¶ Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken: Publisher: Plume; Year: 2004; Pages: 448

It occurred to me recent that I’ve read and reviewed Al Franken’s 2005 The Truth (With Jokes) three times since the start of this meme (1, 2, 3), but never its predecessor, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, which is arguably an even better book.

Conservative pundit Bill O’Reilly hates Media Matters, a website/organization which mostly just documents lies and distortions of conservatives. It’s important to note that there are really no polemics or extended rants of the Ann Coulter variety—the site is, by and large, either transcripts or video clips of the TV appearance/radio show/etc. in question, usually followed by evidence to the contrary. Given O’Reilly’s penchant for dissembling on-air, it is little wonder that he hates them so much.

¶ Republican logic

See if you can intuit this one:

A bailout plan, created in the White House and pushed extensively by President Bush, is sent to Congress.
A majority (≈60%) of Democrats voted for the bill.
A majority (≈67%) of Republicans voted against the bill.
“Republicans blamed [Nancy Pelosi]… for the vote’s failure.”

What?

§2713 · September 29, 2008 · 3 comments · Tags: conservatives, Democrats, economics, politics

¶ Hillary Clinton is disingenuous at best

Re: the Bosnia trip. Ask yourself if the difference between landing in a hail of sniper fire and landing on a secure base, with children in a war-torn country is a “misstatement.” Also ask yourself, even if she had braved sniper fire, if this would qualify as “executive experience.” Perhaps Sinbad should have run for the nomination.

§2021 · March 25, 2008 · (No comments) · Tags: aside, Democrats, politics

¶ Why do Democrats hate America?

I was forwarded this article this morning by someone who often sends me not links to articles, but the sort of perfidious chain e-mails that recast a bogus FNC story and add the lines “God Bless America! If you agree with this e-mail, pass it on!”

When I’m passed an e-mail that is obviously false, my usual reaction is to reply with a link to Snopes: the source is trustworthy enough that the sender believes it, if somewhat resentfully.

When I’m passed National Review, my tendency is to simply ignore them, as stuff from that magazine isn’t particularly opprobrious, but—in my estimation—still wrong.

However, I can’t resist tearing this latest one to pieces. It comes from Investors Business Daily, which seems to me like a less prestigious version of the Wall Street Journal, replete with the conservative ideologues manning the editorial page. But this particular article reads like some awful tripe from Town Hall—it’s that bad.