Posted on 04/08/2015 11:30:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
"When yet another hand clamped over her mouth, Jackie bit it, and the hand became a fist that punched her in the face. 'Grab its motherf---ing leg,' she heard a voice say. And that's when Jackie knew she was going to be raped."
Thus started a 9,000-word article in Rolling Stone magazine about the supposed rash of campus rapes across America. The writer, Sabrina Erdely, began with the horrifying story of Jackie, a college girl who found herself raped by seven men at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia while two other men, including her date, "gave instruction and encouragement."
The University of Virginia banned Phi Kappa Psi from campus. People vandalized the frat house, hurling rocks through windows and covering the premises with graffiti. Commentators and politicians all over the nation bloviated gravely about the deep problem of sexual brutality on campus. Those who questioned Jackie's story were accused of not taking rape seriously enough; to demand facts equated to shaming a rape victim.
There was only one problem with Erdely's story: It was false. Jackie had lied. And Rolling Stone had no evidence to back up Jackie's story in the first place. This week, Rolling Stone apologized for the story but did not fire Erdely or any of its editors; Erdely apologized not to the fraternity or its members but to virtually everyone else. She added, "In writing each of these stories I must weigh my compassion against my journalistic duty to find the truth."
Herein lies the problem. Journalism does not require sympathy for human beings. It requires sympathy for readers, who deserve truth. But for the left, truth represents a secondary value. It is far more important to forward a particular political narrative than it is to simply state the facts. And that narrative can only be forwarded if there is controversy over the facts. If, for example, everyone agreed that Jackie had been gang raped, there would be no controversy over sending her rapists to prison or prosecuting all those who looked the other way. But the leftist narrative requires an opposition, a group of evil haters who take rape less than seriously. That is how society can be blamed for the alleged rape of one woman by seven men.
So the left specifically chooses to feature situations in which facts are under dispute. Then leftists claim that no one could reasonably dispute the facts; the only people who would dispute facts about the occurrence of an evil are those who sympathize with the evil. Leftists craft Americans who require evidence into victimizers, simply so they can portray themselves as heroes. If you wanted evidence of racism with regard to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, you were a fan of Bull Connor-style police brutality. If you wanted evidence with regard to Lena Dunham's rape accusations, you stood with rapists. Leftists don't require any evidence; they will take any allegations that support the narratives they desire at face value because that's how seriously they take rape, racism, etc.
The left's mythmaking will continue. And there will never be consequences for that mythmaking because like Sabrina Erdely, their failures spring from caring, no matter who gets hurt.
The left lies because there’s a bunch of low-information voters who believe those lies.
The self-regard of these prigs knows no bounds. One wonders how many mirrors hang in their houses.
Stalinists lie. ALWAYS
Took Orwell awhile to wake up to this reality but then he made it a mission to tell the world.
The left has to lie, because everything they stand for, or believe in is false.
Why the Left lies...
Because they can? Most are atheists and when you do not have a God to answer to, ANYTHING that supports your belief and does not harm you, is valid to do.
Leftism is a font of ideas that simply do not work. Thats putting it mildly. If anything, leftist ideas make things worse. So how does one prop up ideas that are broken and do not work? Simple: they lie. One certainly cannot prop up broken ideas with the truth. So its, lie, lie, and lie some more. The communists did it that way. The nazis did it that way. And the modern day leftists do it that way.
because the truth does not fit the agenda and to make it work its all there is,lies!
1) Because they have to. People wouldn’t give them ANY power if they knew what the left was about.
2) Because they feel morally justified in doing so. They believe their cause is far too good to be impeded by rules expected of everyone else.
3) Because they can. The news media are supposed to be seekers of truth and maintain that mythical mantel even after they have become blatant leftist activists.
Natural-born liars. Then they become paid professional liars.
Why the left lies? If they told the truth, nobody would vote for them...
because they have no shame.
It’s the Bill Clinton legacy.
BILL WHITTLE EXPLAINS OUR “PROGRESSIVE” NIGHTMARE & THE CONSERVATIVE SOLUTION
PART 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB3BcUKmSlo
PART 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNhtoY_pu7o
BINGO
No, not because they can. They lie because they can’t help it. It comes natural to them
So the left specifically chooses to feature situations in which facts are under dispute. Then leftists claim that no one could reasonably dispute the facts; the only people who would dispute facts about the occurrence of an evil are those who sympathize with the evil. Leftists craft Americans who require evidence into victimizers, simply so they can portray themselves as heroes.
1. Global Warming = Facts in dispute
2. Equal pay for Women = Facts in dispute
Those are just two off the top of my head but I'm sure there are many more.
Because they’ll never be called on it ... MSM will be mute and say it was the fault of the Right ...
Learning to be a lawyer teaches you to lie.. and once you lie well..
they teach you to tell the truth.. in a dishonest way..
AND to not care whether it’s the truth -OR- a lie..
Thats WHY?.... most lawyers are leftists.. and/or politicians..
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
---C.S. Lewis
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