Only have to fool them until the election is over. ;-)
The rest of the article is over at http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/10/03/do_facts_matter In case that wasn’t clear.
Unfortunately, the answers to those questions are no and yes.
The “bailout crisis” is not why McCain’s numbers slipped. The bailout is unpopular, and the candidates have basically the same position on it. Obama got a boost because Democrats always get a boost when the economy sounds weak because Democrats are always saying the economy is weak, even when it’s strong.
Obama has the magic formula: promise 95% of people no new taxes or promise them a tax reduction. This allows the 95% to steal everything from the 5%.
Oh wait. the top 2 1/2 will be able to hide their income offshore or in trusts. This includes most members of the Senate, Hollywood liberals, many wealthy members of Congress, etc.
So, this is the class Communist war on the middle class, abetted by the wealthy.
Obama has declared war on the American taxpayer and he is winning!
I hate to tell you this but FACTS mean very little to Democrats and are completely irrelevant to anyone on the LEFT.
How can Hussein promise 95% of the people tax reduction when only 70% pay tax?
Does this mean he will give money to those unfairly left out of his tax reduction proposal?
Facts don't matter much politically if they are not reported.
The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public. Republicans, for reasons unknown, don't seem to know what it is to counter-attack. They deserve to lose.
But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.
Is anyone at Camp McCain listening?
The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public. Republicans, for reasons unknown, don't seem to know what it is to counter-attack. They deserve to lose.
But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.
Sowell nails it yet again.
The hope of the truth getting out so far has been email links of videos and newspaper articles from the 1990’s. A sad day for American and the press.
“Do Facts Matter”
Not any longer
I can only assume that she is following McCain's lead. McCain is a self-hating Republican who does not really believe in Reaganomics, aka tax cuts for the rich.
McCain has one last chance in the coming debates. He can tell the truth, explain some simple economics to the American people, and stand up for economic growth policies, and still possibly win. If he doesn't do that, even if he wins, his mandate will be for more big government interference in capital markets, which will doom his presidency.
As the always clear Prof. Sowell puts it, facts matter. Greed did create this crisis, but it was the greed of congressmen.
Thomas Sowell is such a great analyst that it is presumptuous to criticize him, generally. But on the issue of "bias in the media," I have to say that my The Right to Know thread is (in my humble opinion) more illuminating than any article which merely gives one or two examples of "bias in the media" does not attempt any analysis of the causes of that pervasive phenomenon.
Facts do not matter if you are a demo-rat. Just make stuff up on the spot to make yourself look smarter.
I recommend reading George Orwell’s book “1984” on a “hypothetical” society that lives in a world where no truth is spoken and everything is based on a lie. It will remind you of demo-ratic campaigning.
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