No one, including the
author of this Forum can escape the fact that they use and present facts in
a slanted fashion in order to make their case.
This is acceptable, and the truth will results from a battle of ideas in
the open market place of free political speech.
But notice that we are talking about Facts here, true statements just
presented in a way to buttress a particular position.
But Conservatives
have found throughout the ages that Facts and Data have a built in
anti-Conservative bias. The reason for
this is straight forward, modern U. S. Conservatism is a faith based ideology,
the positions are based on faith rather than logic. For example the argument that lower tax rates
will create higher revenues is a purely faith based position, unsupported by
logic or data.
In its fight against
Mr. Obama and his health care reform the Wall Street Journal has now
adopted a strategy of abandoning spin and engaging in outright lying. Here
is the headline of their recent editorial.
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Updated October 1, 2012, 7:25 p.m. ET
The 60th Vote Regrets
Now Jim Webb and
Evan Bayh tell us.
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And the subject of the editorial is how Virginia Senator Jim
Webb now regrets his vote in support of health care reform. There is just one problem with the title.
reporter Chuck Todd
pressed if the Senator regretted his vote?
"No, and in the
end I voted with the Republicans 18 times, but in the end I voted for it,"
Now in the English language that everyone in speaks Mr. Webb
unequivocally says he does not regret his vote.
So why the headline that says he does regret the vote?
Easy question, the WSJ needs a story on how the person who
made the deciding vote now regrets it, so they just make stuff up. Or as the rest of us call it, they outright
lie.
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