Permit me to laugh at David Swanson

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361. so your position is that by taking the fact that he has signed a bill you can subjugate

all of the other facts related to the policy, not the least of which is the signing statement and
give it an interpretation that is not based in fact.

Well we all have our standards of discourse.

No one on this thread has refuted ProSense's point by point argument and has instead diverted onto completely other areas unrelated to the actual points that she discussed..

The point I brought to the thread was that the particular criticism of Swanson's polemical attacks against the President are part of a pattern of even greater and more outlandish statements as a consistent pattern of historical malpractice.

His habit of making hyperbolic rhetoric that is completely baseless is inherent in his product that when you read his material you have to fact check every sentence. Apparently he is trying to establish a professional blogger profile by making routine outlandish statements like 'Obama is caving on troop withdrawals' or equating the allies with Germans going so far to say that the allies killed millions of German civilians and so on, all which can be checked by competent authorities in a few minutes. Examples from his journal are voluminous. For the exercise above I took less than 3 minutes looking at his journal and found several completely baseless assertions by Swanson and found peer reviewed historical documentation refuting it in a New York minute.

The issue is Swanson's complete abandonment of credible factual basis for what he states because of his ideological point of view.

Do you think that it is acceptable to make something out of whole cloth that is not true if it supports your ideological (and income stream) point of view.

I don't, and I don't think we need to, the facts are on our side. Let's leave the remythologizing of America to the fundamentalist reactionaries.

Oh and thanks for kicking the thread.

I don't have much time but if you want to help THIS thread going I will be happy to go to bed a bit latter every night to do so.