April 10, 2004
LIFE IN THE FOURTH REICH:
He cannot tell the truth (Morris B. Margolies, April 02, 2004, Kansas City Jewish Chronicle)
Our first president, so goes the myth, could never tell a lie. When he was a very young lad, he had cut down a cherry tree in the family garden. Confronted by his outraged father, he is said to have said: "Father, I cannot tell a lie. I am guilty. I cut down the cherry tree."The tree in the White House today is a Bush. His Christian name, like that of "the father of his country," is also George, and George W. at that! But that is where the similarity ends. All politicians, at one time or another, flirt with falsification. But George W. does more than flirt with it. He is married to it. He lies left and right, fore and aft, night and day. He and his henchmen and henchwomen falsified the election votes in Florida, which landed him in the White House... [...]
What causes me sleepless nights is that George W. might well get away with it, precisely because lies that are repeated over and over again are often believed by the populace at which they are directed.
It's happened ...
We'd gone months without the Bush as Hitler analogies. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 10, 2004 9:31 AM
I just love the "Bush and cronies stole Florida" meme, when in reality the other party attempted to do EXACTLY THAT through selective recount manipulation, shopping for friendly judges in vote friendly counties, and utter disregard for the details of Florida election law. We conservatives don't often remind people of that because we've moved on, but that may be to our detriment.
Posted by: kevin whited at April 10, 2004 10:50 AMIt wouldn't do any good to remind people. Everyone made up their mind in December 2000, and I've seen no one who has changed it since.
Posted by: Brandon at April 10, 2004 11:23 AMBrandon:
Except perhaps some of the newspapers who went there to do recounts fully expecting to prove that Gore actually won, only to find that Bush won under any recount scenario.
Of course, they haven't mentioned it much since, either.
Posted by: jd watson at April 10, 2004 11:46 AMWhy should those who understand the truth, as backed up by all the facts like the confirming recounts, not "move on" or change their opinion? It's those still believing in the "stolen election" big lie in the face of all the evidence to the contrary that is of concern.
People who cannot or will not change in the face of evidence that they are wrong are dangerous because they've shown themselves to be easily and willingly manipulated.
Kevin is correct. Eventually the argument will come back in this election, and in Bush second term also. It's grunt work, but Republicans will have to forcefully pound away at the facts so that Democrats don't continue to change a fantasy into a fact. (Leftist in general have a major talent for planting little seeds of doubt in the public's mind, and then treating those doubts as facts later)
Posted by: h-man at April 10, 2004 4:09 PMWhat a fun guy. No need to present evidence, argument or illustration, just a stream of slander and invective.
Posted by: Peter B at April 11, 2004 7:10 PM