In September 2004, Dan Rather of CBS 60 Minutes II reported on a story based on four memos reportedly taken from the files of George W. Bush's former Air National Guard commanding officer. They were memos regarding Bush being absent without leave and his poor performance. It was a clear effort to discredit Bush and influence the upcoming election. The problem was the memos were obvious forgeries. It was easily shown that they were created using a word processor because the font they were typed in is a "computer" font that didn't even exist at the time the memos were claimed to have been written. Had Rather or the producer of the piece, Mary Mapes, bothered to do their journalistic due diligence, they would have easily discovered this and never run the story. But either because of their political motivation or zeal to get a juicy story, they didn't fact check their information and it cost both of them their jobs and reputations - as it should have. A former network news executive called this scandal the worst in American journalistic history.
Now apparently Hollywood feels as though enough time has passed in order for them to re-write history and tell the story they way they wish it had happened rather than the way it actually did. To be fair, Hollywood and the media having a certain bias is nothing new and it hasn't always been left-leaning. However, manufacturing evidence, rigging tests (as NBC did with GM) and forging documents is a dangerous new development that imperils a free society.
Hopefully moviegoers will be savvy enough to see through this shameless piece of propaganda and not financially reward those who were responsible for making it. Hollywood needs to be taught a painful lesson - lies don't sell.
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Saturday, October 24, 2015
Thursday, November 7, 2013
"If" is the New "Period"
Before I get started on explaining the title of this post, I'd like to clarify some terms and provide examples.
A mistake is when you say something you believe is true but that turns out not to be. Example: George W. Bush and WMDs in Iraq. I'm not saying that invading Iraq was a good idea, especially in hindsight, but I'm saying it was a mistake. Everyone believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction including the U.N., the CIA, the NSA, the British intelligence services, the Germans, etc. There is no evidence whatsoever that Bush knew beforehand that there were no WMDs. Therefore, he didn't lie; it was a mistake.
A lie is when you say something you know to be untrue to deceive someone. Examples: When Bill Clinton claimed he never had sex with Monica Lewinsky, splitting hairs over the meaning of sex not withstanding, he knew he had and therefore what he said was a lie. When Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Susan Rice et al, claimed that the attack in Benghazi that killed the American Ambassador and three other Americans was the result of some YouTube video that no one had seen, they knew that wasn't the case yet they repeated it over and over again. That was also a lie - pure and simple. I know Obama apologists would like the public to believe otherwise, but the fact is they lied.
On the other hand, when George H.W. Bush said, "Read my lips, no new taxes." and then raised taxes, that was a broken promise not a lie unless someone can provide proof that he confided to someone that he intended to raise taxes after he was elected in spite of his pledge.
When the Obama Administration calls Major Nidal Hasan's murderous rampage at Fort Hood "workplace violence", well that is just plain delusional.
Now for the explanation of the title. When Barack Obama claimed over and over and over again, "If you like your current plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor - period." he and his advisors were lying. The media has discovered that the Administration knew full well that this wasn't going to be the case. There are emails and memos documenting this. Since this has come to light, the President and his mouthpiece, Jay Carney, have tried to spin this as, "What we said was, ‘You could keep it [your plan] if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed.'" So unless "If" is the new "period", this too is a lie and what a whooper of a lie it is!
A mistake is when you say something you believe is true but that turns out not to be. Example: George W. Bush and WMDs in Iraq. I'm not saying that invading Iraq was a good idea, especially in hindsight, but I'm saying it was a mistake. Everyone believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction including the U.N., the CIA, the NSA, the British intelligence services, the Germans, etc. There is no evidence whatsoever that Bush knew beforehand that there were no WMDs. Therefore, he didn't lie; it was a mistake.
A lie is when you say something you know to be untrue to deceive someone. Examples: When Bill Clinton claimed he never had sex with Monica Lewinsky, splitting hairs over the meaning of sex not withstanding, he knew he had and therefore what he said was a lie. When Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Susan Rice et al, claimed that the attack in Benghazi that killed the American Ambassador and three other Americans was the result of some YouTube video that no one had seen, they knew that wasn't the case yet they repeated it over and over again. That was also a lie - pure and simple. I know Obama apologists would like the public to believe otherwise, but the fact is they lied.
On the other hand, when George H.W. Bush said, "Read my lips, no new taxes." and then raised taxes, that was a broken promise not a lie unless someone can provide proof that he confided to someone that he intended to raise taxes after he was elected in spite of his pledge.
When the Obama Administration calls Major Nidal Hasan's murderous rampage at Fort Hood "workplace violence", well that is just plain delusional.
Now for the explanation of the title. When Barack Obama claimed over and over and over again, "If you like your current plan, you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor - period." he and his advisors were lying. The media has discovered that the Administration knew full well that this wasn't going to be the case. There are emails and memos documenting this. Since this has come to light, the President and his mouthpiece, Jay Carney, have tried to spin this as, "What we said was, ‘You could keep it [your plan] if it hasn’t changed since the law was passed.'" So unless "If" is the new "period", this too is a lie and what a whooper of a lie it is!
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