http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/23/1331770/-Cotton-slammed-for-creating-a-fantasy-version-of-history-in-food-stamp-attack-ad?detail=email
Arkansas Republican Senate nominee Rep. Tom Cotton's loony ad trying to defend himself for having voted against the farm bill has drawn a fact check that's going to leave a mark. In the ad, Cotton claimed that "President Obama hijacked the farm bill, turned it into a food stamp bill." Problem being, nutrition assistance has been in the farm bill for decades, far longer than Cotton's been alive. Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler notes that history, and continues:
Look at the dictionary definition of hijacking: “to steal or rob…to subject to extortion or swindling.” Is that what Obama did when he said that Congress should continue to do what it did in the past? Or was breaking up the farm bill the more radical step?The most problematic aspect of Cotton’s ad is that he suggests that attaching food stamps to the farm bill was a new idea—something that he was fighting against. But that's invented history.
Sometimes histories get invented over a long time, through generations of oral tradition. When someone takes a well-recorded history of decades, rather than hundreds or thousands of years, and twists it for political purposes, that's really more of a lie. But it's easier to forgive Kessler that understatement given how he concludes:
By creating a fantasy version of history, Cotton certainly sounds like a career politician. We wavered between Three and Four Pinocchios, but Cotton’s self-righteous tone tipped this to Four.
I still wonder if they are that ignorantly anal or do they think we are, deliberately lying about something that the truth is just a few keystrokes away is insane you can't believe you won't get gotcha'd unless you are a republican that hasn't done the homework you know they hate to read anything more than a paragraph. except their Dr. Seuss aficionado Ted Cruz who really loves those green eggs and ham or does he?
bottom line the republicans continually lie with impunity given they take they are all that and a bag of chips we are left with they must think we are to stupid to get it, they can count on their base but not real Americans. following that Bush doctrine only assures them the usual votes.
G W Bush, "you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on".
