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“When you repeat a lie…people actually start to believe it as fact. ”
Glenn Beck, Fox News, December 18th
I am so glad he got this in just in time for this year’s hypocrite quote of the year contest.
As Mario Piperni points out on his blog
“Beck’s entire on-air existence appears to be based on a couple of quotes attributed to Adolph Hitler.”
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it”
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
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Mediamatters indicated the Frank Luntz, longtime Republican strategist and consultant appeared on ABC’s This Week program and told George Stephanopoulos that voters in Indiana, Nebraska, and Arkansas “do not want” health care reform because of “the cost to the deficit.”
Luntz is just following the standard mode of operation for Republicans these days: lying.
In a poll conducted October 27-28 56 percent of Arkansas residents support a public option.
In a poll conducted October 24-25 52 percent of Indiana residents support “the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan.”
In a poll conducted October 29-30 Nebraskans are split on the public option. When asked if they favored or opposed “the government offering everyone a government administered health insurance plan” 46 percent favored such a plan, while 44 percent opposed it.
“Contrary to Luntz’s claim that health care reform will increase the deficit, the Congressional Budget Office found that the House health care reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America ..continue reading
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How much will it take to wake up Americans especially seniors to realize that the far right winguts and their corporate sponsors are not interested in them when it comes to health care reform?
Sarah Palin, one of my favorite wingnuts and intellectual dimwits, stirred up all grandmas and grandpas with her “death panel” declaration last week.
It turns out that like Gingrich she was all for end of life planning (which is what she now calls “death panels”) while governor of Alaska. In fact in April of 2008 Alaska had a Healthcare Decisions Day when she proclaimed the following:
“WHEREAS, Healthcare Decisions Day is designed to raise public awareness of the need to plan ahead for healthcare decisions, related to end of life care and medical decision-making whenever patients are unable to speak for themselves and to encourage the specific use of advance directives to communicate these important healthcare decisions.”
“WHEREAS, one of ..continue reading
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During a town hall meeting in Iowa yesterday Senator Grasseley joined the Freedomworks, corporate funded liars and declared “In the House bill, there is counseling for end of life…You have every right to fear. You shouldn’t have counseling at the end of life, you should have done that 20 years before. Should not have a government run plan to decide when to pull the plug on grandma.”
He continued:
“There are some people who think it is a terrible problem that grandma is laying in a bed with tubes in her… and that the government should intervene, I think that’s a family or religious thing that needs to be dealt with.’”
The Health Insurance industry seems to have bought off many of the Republican Congressmen and women.
In 2007 Republican Senator Johnny Izakson proposed the End of Life Planning Act which is essentially the clause that is in the House plan. It only provides ..continue reading
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It is nice to see that Alberto Gonzales found a job at Texas Tech recruiting minority students and teaching a course.
The course is titled “Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch”. He should know. This is laughable. The course he should be teaching is “How to be a loyal kiss-up and break the law”.
Gonzales who was the United States Attorney General under Bush was forced out approximately 2 years ago after it was revealed that he had lied to Congress about the firing or dismissal of 8 Republican US attorneys. The attorneys were fired or dismissed for political reasons. One, David Iglesias was fired because he did not seek indictments of Democrats before the 2006 elections.
In addition Gonzales approved the Torture memo used as justification to torture prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I am a lawyer and was out of work for an extended period before finding a new position recently. I ..continue reading
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