How do they rewrite history so easily???

[LaydeeBug]

Not scant few years ago, I can remember my right leaning friends telling me that kids going around asking for a hand out gives the wrong message. I don't have a link for this, I *lived* it. I remember right leaning rellies of my friends berating me for this very purpose. Like *I* was responsible, single handedly, for this "socialist" practice, ***and*** I *owed* them some sort of debt for it.

This happened as surely as it's Friday at nearing 6pm around Washington DC.

Now the very same people are feigning outrage that they ever did such a thing.

I've said it be fore, and I'll say it again: FUUUUUUUUUCK the teabaggers.

[unblock]

1. we have very different ways of thinking.

our view of truth is something verifiable by trusted sources. some biases exist in our sources, but we usually consider them small and we gloss over them.

republicans do the same thing, or think they're doing the same thing, but we see their choice of trusted sources as entirely untrustworthy, transparently biased. they look to their party leaders for the party line and accept it as the considered truth, just as we do when highly credentialed professors and such opine on an issue.

if rush tells them to fight a war on trick-or-treaters, they'll do it.
if rush tells them they never fought that war, they'll accept that as fact as well.

and in fairness, we would do the same if that highly-credentialed professor came announced an error in analysis or made a similar reversal of result.


all of which means, be careful who you consider expert and from where you gather your facts.

[Laelth]

3. Good post. Thanks. n/t

-Laelth

[hollysmom]

2. no conscience, anything to win

[LaydeeBug]

4. ^^this^^ It seems they just like the *fight*. nt

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. Some talking head on the right came out with new talking points.

Those talking points are the equivalent of a Republican in a Delorean traveling at 88 mph and changing history.

Easy-peasy nice and squeezy.

[LaydeeBug]

6. You ain't kidding. I mean, they just want to "pretend it never happened"

I had one tell me that he's a Republican, and he gives out candy every year.


wow.