How a lie become "The Truth"

The Virginian ^ | 3/25/2010 | Moneyrunner

[moneyrunner]

By now it’s an axiom that the Tea Party people are racists, bigots and homophobes. That they shout racial slurs, spit on blacks and call Barney Frank a fag. This is done in the old fashioned way, the same way that in times past black men were accused of raping white women and then strung up. All that was needed was an accusation, it was passed around in gossip, amplified via the press megaphone and … we have another lynching.

We don’t lynch blacks any more; we go in for a more high tech lynching in this wired world. We have the accusation, followed by the credulous will to believe. Why would a virtuous woman lie about being raped or a civil rights hero lie about being spat on?

In the past, it’s a she said, he said story. Today we live in a wired world where every action is recorded in living color and surround sound. Yet strangely enough, none of the microphones picked up those racial or sexual slurs. None of the cameras tracked the arc of that spit. But why would they lie, what is there to gain by painting their opponents as racists and bigots? It’s a real puzzlement, isn’t it?

Despite the lack of evidence, this accusation is morphing into “The Truth.” Here’s a video of how CNN is doing it.

Nearer to home, we have the editorial page of the Virginian Pilot creating “The Truth” by printing two letters to the editor denouncing the racist Tea party and an Op Ed by Leonard Pitts whose subject is always and everywhere the issue of racism in America telling us that the KKK is reborn in the opposition to ObamaCare.

[dalebert]

demand proof....

[Paisan]

and absent proof, the resignation of the accusers.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Tea Party people are racists, bigots and homophobes yet:

1) black on white violence is 6 times higher than any other crime stat,

2)the democrat refuses school vouchers for inner city children

3) NAMBLA is being pushed to the forefront of society as a ‘natural’ act

4) 96% of voting blacks voted for Obama

5) Historic Black colleges are granted federal money

Next Tea party we should all carry signs with Thomas Sowell for President.

[pnut22]

Tea party supporters seem to me to have one thing in common. They work for a living.

[dajeeps]

I thought it was the SEIU thugs beating a black tea partier in a wheelchair who was passing out ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ stick flags at a townhall in St. Louis.

If there is anyone using intimidation to get their point across, it’s the other side. If they can’t win the argument on merit, they resort to intimidation and violence, name calling and flat out lies.

[popdonnelly]

They can lie all they want, I’m joining the Tea Party movement. Lying is what results in the lame brain Congress we have at present.