It's been a busy RAYGUN day, what with all the HITCHENS and all stuff all day long, and I dutifully forwarded lots o'links to my local radio talkshow wingnut. Here are the top 3 links and HIS TESTY REPLIES:
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(1)
http://dominantlee.tripod.com/.... I, Leola McConnell, do affirm that from the year 1998 until May 2003,
I was PNAC member and radio talk show host William J. Bennett's Domina. ....
(2) Reagan "I
hope you're all Republicans" story is bullshit
My parents lived in DC when Reagan was shot, and my mother was good friends with an anesthesiologist at the hospital Reagan was taken to. My mother's friend was working on the President when he came in, and was paying extremely close attention to Reagan when the alleged joke was made. Apparently the joke never happened. He said that Reagan was in a lot of pain and was very scared, and was definitely not saying anything, let alone joking with the doctors. He was sitting very close to Reagan's head, as an anesthesiologist is supposed to do, so he would definitely have heard even the faintest words from him mouth. After the media picked up the fabricated joke story, the doctor considered coming out with the truth, but decided against it. I've heard the story parroted back by numerous talking heads this weekend, and it makes me sick every time to know that one of the Right's favorite stories about their favorite President is an outright lie. Spread the word...
(3) It all
starts with a little lie. People don't question it and it becomes conventional wisdom for those that wish to believe it. I'm talking about today's Republican Party.
They said the country was going to hell in a handbasket because of the terrible inflation of Jimmy Carter near the end of his term. It was bad but it was not the end of the world. It was mostly created from high energy prices. But the Repubs were able to exaggerate it to a point that they created their own "misery index". But, no one ever called them on it.
Then they said if we cut taxes to the bone, the economy will grow like crazy. We will have more revenues coming in than ever before. Sure enough, after they raised Social Security taxes and cut all the tax breaks for working and middle class people, revenues increased. But we had the largest deficits in the history of our nation. We went from the world's largest creditor nation to the world's largest debtor nation. But, no one called them on it. It became conventional wisdom that they had the right formula.
Then, they said you-know-who won the Cold War. We outspent the Soviets and they collapsed. Yes, they collapsed but not because they got in a defense spending war with us. In fact, and the CIA reported after the collapse, the Soviet spending on defense had remained flat during the period of the '80s. We spent ourselves into huge deficits with massive military spending alongside the huge taxcuts. Still, no one called them on it. The little lie grew and grew.
Along comes a non-curious leader in 2000, with a Republican majority in Congress and every branch of government under their control. They bring out their big lie and present it to the people again, as if it was written in stone. The way to get the economy growing is to cut taxes, they said. Of course, when they said that, the unemployment rate was 4.1% - a record low for modern times. The lie exploded in their faces. Yet, no one called them on it. It must have been some other reason for the downturn and the huge deficits. It couldn't be the big lie that the Repubs have adopted as their conventional wisdom. It must be something else?
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(1)
Why does it sound true to you? What has Bennett ever done or said that make you think he is having an affair with a dominatrix?
(2) Everyone is so eager to believing stories that debunk other storties.
Why should we believe this guy, whoever he is? (3)
What big lie, exactly, are you talking about? 
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