Obamacare has death panels. President Obama was born in Kenya. Taxing the top 2% will kill jobs. The Rich are the job creators. Obamacare throws grandma off the cliff. Obamacare increases the deficit. President Obama removed the work requirement from the food stamp program.
The previous statements are all provably false. There needed to be no further debate on their veracity. It is fact that water boils at 100 degrees centigrade at sea level. There is no other side to that fact and as such it warrants no further debate. Attempting to entertain an “alchemist” questioning the validity of the boiling point of water would serve no useful purpose to society. In fact, it would give the fallacy of water not boiling at 100 degrees centigrade at sea level the air of plausibility.
Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, he-said-she-said stenography, and the lack of enlightening stories about the issues.But according to longtime political observers Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, campaign coverage in 2012 was a particularly calamitous failure, almost entirely missing the single biggest story of the race: Namely, the radical right-wing, off-the-rails lurch of the Republican Party, both in terms of its agenda and its relationship to the truth.
sorry to get off topic but watching morning joe today i experienced just this, blowhard joe defending torture and trying like his party to deny the victory to the Pres. for Bin Laden claiming Bush, Cheyney who first lied about it then claimed victory even after professional rebuttal including McCain well i don't believe it if you follow that illogic then Bush wars unpaid for wrong wars unpaid for tax cut to rich unpaid for caused the depression, but they won't admit to that one.
Mann and Ornstein are two longtime centrist Washington fixtures who earlier this year dramatically rejected the strictures of false equivalency that bind so much of the capital’s media elite and publicly concluded that GOP leaders have become “ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”
The 2012 campaign further proved their point, they both said in recent interviews. It also exposed how fabulists and liars can exploit the elite media’s fear of being seen as taking sides.
the right has had in place since Nixon"i'm not a crook" to use media specifically Fox to influence your vote and it worked for years.
