Listening to a Liar: Part II (Thomas Sowell)

Townhall.com ^ | September 10, 2009 | Thomas Sowell

[jazusamo]

*PING*
Thomas Sowell

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[pissant]

Obama makes Algore and Lurch seem like truthtellers, by comparison.

[secret garden]

Spread the word. He lies.

[maine-iac7]

Obama says Sowell is a racist .... oh, wait...

[ntmxx]

A little common sense goes a long ways, especially regarding natural born sneaks, cheats and lairs in and out of Government! The best deterrence to ignorance and pop-culture is a good dose classical common sense.

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the ping jaz. Dr. Sowell making sense of it all again. Looking forward to the next installments of “Listening to a Liar”.

[mfish13]

Dr. Sowell for President in 2012.

[Milhous]

One of the secrets of being a glib talker is not getting hung up over whether what you are saying is true

ROTFLMAO

[rockinqsranch]

He’s almost 80 years old!

I think he’s doing a fine job contributing to the cause as he is.

[jazusamo]

I’d like to see him write III and IV, this is so appropriate after last night.

[gidget7]

I LOVE this man! If only he would run for President.

[gidget7]

Really? I have seen him on FOX a few times, he doesn’t look even close!

[jazusamo]

He sure doesn’t look his age, born 6-30-30.

[Fudd Fan]

He’s too smart to want to!

[ldish]

“The Truman Show” was a movie...”The Hussein Show” is becoming a nuisance...not only a LIAR...but a consistent constant LIAR...FO BO!

[Windflier]

Obama says Sowell is a racist .... oh, wait...

Why not? My moonbat brother did it to me.

[GOPJ]

To tell us, with a straight face, that he can insure millions more people without adding to the already skyrocketing deficit, is world-class chutzpa and an insult to anyone's intelligence. To do so after an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office has already showed this to be impossible reveals the depths of moral bankruptcy behind the glittering words.

LOL - that my friend is what's called "speaking truth to power"...

Thanks for the ping jaz.

[Windflier]

He sure doesn’t look his age, born 6-30-30.

Hmm... he's two months younger than my dad, but infinitely wiser. Two black men, growing up in the same America, yet they wound up at opposite ends of the awareness scale.

Sorry Dad.

[loveliberty2]

Sowell: "Con men understand that their job is not to use facts to convince skeptics but to use words to help the gullible to believe what they want to believe. No message has been more welcomed by the gullible, in countries around the world, than the promise of something for nothing."

As posted on another thread earlier, we always must keep in mind that words are only the vehicles used to transport ideas, and they can be used to camouflage those ideas (the cargo) as well.

If the object is to move a significant portion of the U. S. economy from private control to public control, and the words are carefully chosen to disguise the idea (the cargo) as being "reforming health care," then enough gullible people who, for one reason or another, believe health care needs "reforming," will be like an audience at an illusionist's show, they will never see the chicanery before them.

In this case, the illusionist's performance is not about health care. It is about moving forward an agenda for bypassing the Constitution which, by the President's own words, has been being attempted for several decades without success--an agenda for accumulating more power in Washington.

The forces behind him chose what they believed to be a person gifted with words to move their ideas forward. Whether or not American citizens allow it is yet to be seen.