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Conservatives Have Figured Out A Disturbingly Effective Strategy: Tell Lots And Lots of Lies
By Amanda Marcotte - RawStory
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:06 EDT

Updated to add: A commenter reminded me that this phenomenon was first chronicled with creationists and deemed the “Gish Gallop” by skeptics. You can read about that here: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

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The rollout of manufactured conservative outrage about insurance plans being required to cover contraception—something, may I remind you, most already did—has been a demonstration that the right wing noise machine has perfected the art of bullshit, after decades of honing their craft. Conservative leaders have learned they can train their followers to believe anything, with One Simple Trick: Lie faster than the debunkers can debunk. With the contraception mandate, there’s been a dizzying amount of lies that have been pouring out of the right, and this is no accident. Conservative leaders have learned that if you drown your opposition in lies, they are doomed. Even if they debunk one lie, audiences who are eager to buy into the anti-contraception line will simply cling to another. If you debunk that lie, conservatives just switch to another or switch back.

So discourse goes like this:

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More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/26/conservatives-have-figured-out-a-disturbingly-effective-strategy-tell-lots-and-lots-of-lies/