Posted on 09/23/2004 9:29:57 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
The Democrats are to truth what kryptonite is to Superman. They can't exist in the same room.
To paraphrase Dick Armey, "A Republican's biggest fear is that the people just won't understand. A Democrat's biggest fear is that they WILL understand."
When someone 'knows' something or thinks something is correct, they only hear what confirms that thought. Anything that corrupts it is dismissed and not listened to seriously.
I see conservatives doing the same thing, for example on the issue of drug legalization. I see libertarians doing it, on the issue of what's best for the Country right now. I see liberals doing it, on gun control and war.
Everyone has their own beliefs and it takes an epiphany to let facts in.
I work for a university, and agree completely with the article. Liberals just will not allow any competing view to be expressed, much less debated.
Naomi Wolf on O'R Factor tonight was particularly a riot. She lobbed bombs and Bill wouldn't have it, pressing her for specifics. She brushed her hair, complimented him on 'how smart he is' numerous times, cocked her head and tried to get by on, of all things, what's left of her sex appeal.
Bill didn't bite (I don't blame him - Wolf must arrive at tv studios with her own special trick camera lenses that make her appear 115 lbs). Wisecracks aside, it is unintentionally funny to see the avowed feminist voice try to flirt her way out of a jam, grin, blush, brush her hair back, etc. No specifics, no facts, just lobbing bombs and hoping to be treated with kid gloves.
It's really remarkable in that I don't think she is a great mind, nor a skilled writer. What did happen to the 'sexual harrassment' bomb she lobbed at one of her old profs?
Why are these people on my tv?
"The Democrats are to truth what kryptonite is to Superman. They can't exist in the same room."
That's peachy. :)
I think you can look at the track record of drug legalization in other countries (think The Netherlands) and see that there are many reasons why it is a bad idea. I am never against debate of issues, but conservatives being blind to the "facts" of this issue is ridiculous.
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."-- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian author, whose classic novels include War and Peace (1863-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-77).
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Those who faced the facts became impatient with an intellectual orientation supplied by John Lennon’s ''Imagine.''
That is so me. 9/11 woke me up and made me realize it was just a pretty melody, not a way of life.
Within 40 miles does not mean "in" Cambodia. It means outside of Cambodia. So Kerry saying he was in Cambodia is more than a mispeak. You can't be in say San Diego and say your in Mexico.
Lando
Liberals have gone past lies, they have created a full-blown mythology. You could talk to one all day and not even scratch the surface of it.
That, in fact, has become their defense mechanism. They have walls upon walls of lies that they have built up so that any instance of the truth being shown to them can be countered by another lie. They simply spew them out faster than they can be refuted and they are thus protected from the truth.
Most people inherit their politics. Social pressure keeps them in line and makes it seem like the thing to do is to go along with the crowd. Even though getting a PhD requires original thinking, most academics follow the crowd.
No,it is most assuredly NOT a minor thing at all,to claim to have been in Cambodia,sent there by President Nixon,when LBJ was still the president and ones writes about yearning for home,in a diary and then later claim to have been in Cambodia. There is nothing "minor" about such an outright,baldfaced,self-aggrandizing lie!
No...the 9/11 commission didn't state that at all and that commission is a fraud anyway.
Again,you are incorrect...there were NOT 10,000 blacks prevented from voting! The dead,felons,and the nonexistent were not allowed to vote in the 2000 election,in Florida.Do you have a problem with enforcing the law?
No 10,000 blacks were not prevented from voting.
Yes, the 9/11 commission found that there were contacts between Al Queda and Iraq. The OldDominantLiberalMedia tried to turn the finding that there were contacts and that there was no direct evidence of collusion on 9/11 into a representation that President Bush had claimed that there was direct evidence of collusion, which he never had. Direct lies by the media, specifically the NY Slimes, through misdirection and misrepresentation.
I'd bet if you ask most of their readers, they would say that the 9/11 commission found that President Bush lied about Iraq and Al Queda, when in fact, they found out he told the truth as best it could be known.
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