Posted on 04/04/2006 2:31:22 AM PDT by RWR8189
Great column. Sowell is totally correct about the media filtering everything. If you only received your information from the TV news channels, you would think that:
1. The majority of racial crimes are white on black
2. Pretty women are being kidnapped at alarming rates
3. White supremacy is a national problem
4. The polar ice caps are melting and flooding everything, blah, blah, blah.
5. The news media deserves respect and the government officials must answer to them
6. Bill Clinton never used force in international relations
7. Bin Laden only became a problem after Bush took office
8. Repeat ad nauseum.
Facts only matter if I believe them.
I BEEEELLLLLIIIIEEEEEEVVVEEEE John Kerry will be sworn in Jauary 2005, therefore, it's a fact.
</sarcasm>
Truly the liberal's code.
Sowell bump
bump for after the coffee kicks in
I just finished reading Sowell's book "Basic Economics". It is a worthwhile book even for someone who has studied economics.
Dr. Sowell had an earlier article called "Us and Them" (I think) which ties in very well with this article.
Thanks for the post!
The MSM's first rule of business:
"Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story".
Wow!
Great line, applicable to many, many situations and explains a whole lot of what is going on today in 'Rat politics.
The title of this article, "Are Facts Obsolete?" rips into the Clintonian relativism. Clinton introduced us to a funky kind of truth which large numbers of our citizens are unable and unwilling to shake.
Clinton has introduced temporary truth. Clintonian truth serves its purpose for the day but it doesn't stand the test of time. But that's OK. It doesn't need to.
The fact that Clintonian truth has an expiration date means that they know their facts will likely be obsolete tomorrow but they really don't care, as long as they serves their purposes today.
So yes Thomas, sadly, the Facts Are Obsolete!
Thanks for the tip. I may just have to read that. I have one with a similar title that was written I believe by Paul Samuelson and some other moron. I got about 50 pages into the book, and had to stop. They were talking about the three greatest economists ever as Adam Smith (true), John Maynard Keynes, and Karl Marx, with special praise for Marx as having a deeper and broader knowledge of economics than anyone ever has because he spent his entire life studying the subject. I pretty much had to stop reading it right there.
...... and with the old destructive socialist/liberal media:
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. -- Aldous Huxley
(Barf)
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
Soerll = Sowell
Sowell bump. Great column, as always.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall if he and Mark Steyn were to have dinner together. Throw in Charles Krauthammer, and that would be really interesting.
LOL! "The smartest woman in the world" (retch) LOL
Two or more generations of electronic mass-media talking has left us all with an exaggerated regard for aired words, not facts. So the losers in an argument never deal with the facts that are against them, but come back with words slanted to make them look like winners. The electronic mass media picks them up and leaves the viewers of the evening news with a 180 degree wrong impression.
I guess it's called "spin". The truth spinner always ends up pointing in the opposite direction. That's called "lies".
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