Distortions are preferred to comparable truths [View all]

[cthulu2016]

Last edited Tue Jan 10, 2012, 01:24 PM - Edit history (1)

There are 10,000 legitimalty bad things about Mitt Romney. He proposing raising taxes on the poor to fund tax cuts for the rich. That is evil and faulty macroeconomics and it is real.

But the "firing people" thing is bogus. It is grossly out of context and it's embarassing for anyone to jump on it. It is not even a "gaffe." It is a string of words taken out of context.

(It is also a string of words that, in context, reveals a poor understanding of the econmics of health care.)

If a clip of Romney saying he likes firing people "reveals a larger truth" then there must be some evidence of that larger truth that is not a lie. So why does the distortion win out over comparable truths?

When the Obama comment quoting the McCain campaign ( "if we talk about the economy we lose" ) was taken out of context it was a very, very, very bad thing because it was a lie.

If someone said that Obama clip revealed the larger truth that the economy is an electoral liability for the president I would say, "It is a fucking LIE so it doesn't reveal anything except the character of the person doing the lying."

Meeting lies with more lies is a bad thing. It is nihilism. It is Fox News.

It is not something to aspire to.