It's just a simple realistic fact. To our opponents in this cataclysmic economic, political, ideological struggle - the truth does not matter. The facts do not matter.
They have their own facts.
They have their own Reality, and it does not comport with ours. Naturally and of course, they would say exactly the same thing about we Democrats which is exactly what the GOP is counting on. That in the muddle of accusation and counter accusation, "facts" become nothing more than opinions, and opinions become belief and every has a "right" to believe as they choose, isn't that why the Founding Fathers Bravely Marched Across the Deadly Ice of Gettysburg to Warn the British we Knew they were Coming?
If that's what you believe, who has the right to take that away from you?
We now no longer have journalists who report what the facts are. We have Conservative News Host and allegedly Liberal News Hosts and rather than simply listening to what they say - we are supposed to gauge the validity of their statements against an invisible balance beam of "neutrality" in a political world that just keeps spinning, and spinning.
To quote on of my favorite songs:"This world keeps spinning until you get dizzy enough to believe that being "Emancipated" is the same thing as being "Free".
Thus we now have a Tea Party Affiliated Group, whose previous main claim to fame was Opposing Mitt Romney who've found it desperately necessary to Right the Wrongs of Partisan Journalism by defending the honorable Paul Ryan from the Smears and Calumny of -
Rachel Maddow?
Seriously? Really! (Details over the Death Squiggle of Socialist, Commie, Muslim, LGBT Doom)
Via Raw Story
The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama, a tea party-affiliated political action committee, has urged their supporters to “prove Rachel Maddow” wrong and rally behind Mitt Romney’s new running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).
In a fundraising email sent out on Saturday, the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama noted that the MSNBC host had blasted Ryan after it was announced he would be Romney’s vice presidential nominee.
“Friends, do we ever need your help,” the Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama wrote in their email. “This week liberal MSNBC host, Rachel Maddow, has been on a campaign to smear and discredit Congressman Paul Ryan.”
The group said it was preparing to launch a “massive TV ad campaign” to help Ryan and pressed their supporters to “show Rachel Maddow just how wrong and foolish she is!”
See that, when we don't like what a reporter says we come here, post the video, post partial transcripts acceptable to fair use, describe point by point what we disagree with, then discuss it amongst ourselves and the Tweet and Like it into the Multi-Net-Verse.
Gradually through discussion and interaction we verify our points, then boil them down to memes in which we don't have to go through the point by point analysis anymore, everyone we share it with has been exposed to those ideas and the get it very rapidly.
We are our own Editorial Columnists. We write every day, sometimes several times a day. We pick the subjects and we do battle, in our own small way, with the media stalwarts who repeatedly fail to provide accurate, timely and valuable information.
Using these methods, Blogs, Tweets and Facebook - we have toppled nations. Several of them so far.
But we don't get on the TV all that much.
This little Tea Party group has so far raised themselves about as much as Colbert SuperPAC so far with $1.9 Million in their coffers. And now they're going to take that money and attack a journalist for it.
I just wonder one thing, exactly HOW are they going to prove anything Rachel has said is "wrong"? If anyone goes out of their way to double, triple and quintuple check thier data and facts - it's Rachel Maddow.
How are they going to debunk this from her Friday Show where she contrasts the selection of Paul Ryan for VP with the selection of Congressman William Miller as VP for Barry Goldwater - and the fact that that ticket went down his glorious flames in the Election of 1964, mentioning in passing that Ryan, like Miller, has successfully sponsored almost no bills of any significance.
What part of that isn't true? It's historical fact.
Or here where she points out that either Congressman Paul Ryan LIED about never asking for any Stimulus Money or else he has a Rogue Staff that just signs his names on letters to the Secretary of the Treasury asking for money just - for fun.
Here where she discussed the awkwardness of having Paul Ryan Campaign in The Villages, a enormous retirement community in Florida, when the Romney Campaign can't decide if they will or will not entirely or partially embrace or include the Paul Ryan plan to convert Medicare into 30% Off Discount Coupons for Private Insurance.
Here where she pointed out that Paul Ryan opposed Abortion even in the cases of Incest or Rape, and has personally sponsored his own Federal Version of a "Personhood" Bill that would give full Constitutional Rights to each and every Fertilized Egg - which technically not only ban invitro fertilization, it would also essentially ban the rhythm method.
Or here where she talks about the Ryan Plan to Privatize Social Security in the same way that George W. Bush attempted to do.
In a way I find it odd that they've decided to come after Rachel this way - she hasn't yet even pushed back hard on the fact that the $716 Billion of reduced Medicare Spending from the Affordable Care Act, actually extended the life of the Trust Fund by another 8 Years while services and Benefits were Increased, not CUT. She's only said that Paul Ryan keeps that cut in his own Budget and 90% of House Republicans Voted for.
It took Jared Bernstein to bring that up here;
But then, they don't care do they? They have their version of Reality and their sticking to it. Hell, they're going to try and make us stick to it.
They want to try and make us believe that Paul Ryan didn't vote the Iraq War, the unpaid for Medicare Prescription Drug program, TARP and both Bush Tax Cuts all of which added $6 Trillion to the deficit, that's he really a "Deficit Hawk", and that he doesn't want to privatize Social Security, he doesn't want to turn Medicare into Discount Health Coupons, he isn't for Personhood and he didn't grovel and beg for Stimulus Money to create jobs in his district while simultaneously claiming it "Didn't Help create Jobs Anywhere".
Yeah, Good luck with that.
Oh, and while their doing this - they will make the things that Rachel Maddow has said even more famous and well known than they already are.
What was that somebody once said about Catapulting the Propaganda?
Vyan