Pic Of The Moment: Scott Walker Blames Obama For "Disturbing Trend"

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16. Yet another case of Republicans not doing their homework.

Unfortunately, unless you turn it around on them, call them on the error and actively ridicule them for it, most listeners will just nod and accept what they heard from the lying liar. It's human nature because it takes less mental energy to accept what you hear than to make the effort to question it and seek confirmation or contradiction.

A friend of mine once told me that he had heard 90% of EKGs are wrong and he repeated it as if he totally accepted that statement. "Really makes you think, doesn't it?" he said.

I did think about it and said, "That can't possibly be true. First of all, it would make for medical catastrophes with a frequency that would be all over the news. Secondly, how could you know they're wrong? You'd have to have some other way of measuring heart performance that is far more reliable than EKGs to compare them to."

"Oh! I hadn't thought of that," he said. Because he didn't try.
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I would like to hear Democrats start relentlessly ridiculing Republicans for not putting in the work to check their supposedly factual assertions. Call into question the Republican candidates' competence, portray them as lazy, sloppy, and bad at hiring reliable staffers who are supposed to factcheck their statements. Turn their many factual errors into criticism of their ability to run a campaign. One thing politicians cannot afford is to look bad at running a campaign.