Posted on 05/21/2012 9:52:11 AM PDT by ReformationFan
When a big lie is repeated often enough and becomes “truth,” there can be serious consequences. For reality is like a jigsaw puzzle: If too many pieces (little pictures) are wrong, you’ll never be able to assemble them and see the big picture. The result is dislocation from reality. What follows are 10 big lies that have gained currency — and the actual truth behind them.
1. Pope Pius XII was a Nazi Collaborator
According to Rabbi David Dalin in his book The Myth of Hitler’s Pope, Pius saved at least 800,000 Jews from extermination at the hands of the Nazis. This is why, during and especially just after WWII, Pius was roundly praised by Jewish figures such as Golda Meir, Albert Einstein, and Moshe Sharett, just to name a few.
So what happened? Well, five years after Pius’ death, a play called The Deputy was made by leftist Rolf Hochhuth. It portrayed Pius as a self-serving man who was indifferent if not hostile to the Nazis’ Jewish victims, and the increasingly secular world ran with it. The Big Lie was repeated until it was “truth.”
But the back story here is even more interesting: The highest-ranking communist intelligence officer to ever defect to the West, Ion Mihai Pacepa, divulged that the attack on Pius — including The Deputy — was no accident. It was Soviet agitprop.
2. There are more whites than blacks on welfare
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
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“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” - Ronald Reagan
And That’s the Way It Isn’t: Ten Liberal Myths People Believe Some Freepers Believe
And That’s the Way It Isn’t: Ten Liberal Myths People Believe Some Freepers Believe
1.Taxes improve economy
2.The media is neutral and responsible
3.More money improves public education
4.Environmental activism is about protecting the environment
5.ObamaCare is about providing better health care
6.Sarah Palin said she can see Russia from he home
7.Barack Obama will promote racial harmony
8.GM paid back all the stimulus money they got
9.The economy is improving
10. (Add your favorite here)
Liberals are crazy. I’ve learned to ignore anything they say. I’m not even interested in engaging them in debate any more... it’s like trying to teach history, psychology and economics to a monkey.
You hear this one often...
“2. There are more whites than blacks on welfare
When responding to this, educated people often mention that only percentages matter, not raw numbers. But here’s the real surprise: The basic assertion itself is incorrect and has been since the 1990s welfare reform. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Family Assistance, in 2002 (the last year I found statistics for), 659,296 white families were on welfare versus 782,914 black families. This phenomenon held true even when norming for income: Poor whites were less likely to receive welfare than poor blacks.”
And That’s the Way It Isn’t: Ten Myths Some Freepers Believe”
obama is a lock for re-election!
That’s a real eye opener. I knew the percentages were heavily weighted to the blacks but I figured there were so many more whites that the total would have to be more. Interesting.
Great to have factual information to counteract these very common liberal myths.
Anybody and everybody that votes Democrat is backing him. Nobody is challenging him. Arizona is a few years too late in leaving him off the ballot. He flip flops his positions. Everybody makes excuses for him. And the Democrats manage to make seemingly every day news items into opportunities for their side. So, I have little hope of a Republican getting back into the White House this next election cycle, or any other for a very long time. Why? Because Obama won't let that happen.
Number ten: Republicans want to destroy Social Security and Medicare.
BFL
Ah, yes ...and then there’s that thing about the religion of peace.
Good list.
Re: #2, I believe that more blacks receive welfare because more blacks were below the poverty line when welfare was handed over to state & federal govt in the sixties and seventies.
Once in, you don’t get out.
A very good read—Every American should read this—and all College kids.
10. Men and women are identical and absolutely interchangeable.
11. Opposing a Mosque being built at Ground Zero is “Islamophobic.”
12. Any disagreement with Obama about absolutely anything is “racist”.
Absolutely destroys half of the Left’s precious shibboleths.
10. Elizabeth Warren is a Cherokee
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