Liberal ideology, and the average liberal's self-image, is founded on -- let's be polite about it -- myth and misinformation.
Throughout the 20th century, liberals have excused and explained their latest utopian "solutions" to manufactured "problems" using twisted history.
As it turns out: DDT isn't dangerous, Alger Hiss was a spy, the Rosenbergs were guilty, the Samoans weren't promiscuous, one-our-of-four women aren't rape victims, AIDS isn't a threat to "everyone"...
This list is long, and I'll be writing more about this fake alternative history.
For now, let's look at the Biggest Liberal Lies of 2008.
Where to begin?
* They've had to rename "global warming" "climate change" to cover up the fact that "global warming" has turned out to be the Lock Ness Monster of weather.
* No one yelled "Kill him" (meaning Obama) at a Sarah Palin rally. (And those Palin rallies were much bigger than reported in the MSM)
* McCain knows exactly where Spain is
* That "Iraqi" journalist who threw two shoes at Bush is actually a pro-Saddam Egyptian.
I need your help putting together this list. Consider this post a work in progress. Add your "favorite" liberal lies in the comments and make sure you mention your source, if possible: Snopes, Newsbusters, the author of a debunking book or article. Sorry: Examiner.com comments don't accept URLs or HTML.
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"AIDS isn't a threat to 'everyone'"
Kathy Shaidle is a complete idiot.
You're hilarious.
Sarah Palin has foreign policy because her state was next door to Russia. Oh wait, that was a conservative lie.
The fundamentals of the economy are sound!! Oh wait . . . again . . . conservative lie.
Global warming/climate change is real.
Put it this way, I found the stats for my area that measure both average daily temperature and precipitation amount and type.
Over the last 15 years we get less snow, more rain and winter temperatures are much warmer.
Water levels are also higher in my neck of the woods.
Keep kidding yourself. When you're drowning don't ask me to save you.
Kathy, You're talking out your ass and I pray you will see the light because it must be very dark and smelly from your perspective.
Kathy, your pic makes me think you're fat. Is this the cause of your bitterness?
Did you spend the night of your prom at home watching videos with your parents?
Whether the reasons for global warming are man made or natural or a combination of both, the proof is there that it is indeed occurring. It's our job not to hasten it and our exits from the Earth but rather attempt to manage and slow its progression.
I'd like generations to come to live in a world without massive crop failure, species extinction and the failure of the oceans to support life. How about you Kathy with a K?
Carve any backwards Bs into your face lately?
Bristol Palin is Trig Palin's mother.
Liberals are full of tolerance, as this thread shows.
Steve, for 20 years the Gay/AIDS Industrial Complex has warned us that "everyone is at risk for AIDS".
As some industry bigwigs now admit, this was a lie to promote sympathy and donations. AIDS does not strike at random; it effects MOSTLY sexually promiscuous/drug addicted -- that is, immoral -- individuals and their victims:
"According to James Chin, a former UN official who made some of the earliest global HIV estimates, such concocted figures are "pure advocacy.""
Google it.
More facts about AIDS:
"AIDS in Africa: A Betrayal"
by Edward C. Green, a medical anthropologist and senior research scientist at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Gay marriage doesn't threaten freedom of religion?
Er, Tony:
It's called "Global Warming" not "Warming Around Tony P's Particular Neighborhood."
Try harder next time.
PS: please show me your Nobel Prize...
Read this if you dare, but I know you won't:
"More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims" -- report just released, includes many Nobelists and other actual scientists, as opposed to divinity school dropouts (i.e., your fellow non-scientist Al Gore)
Exactly, Seraphic. We all know that gay "marriage" advocates are within 12 months of mounting a court case to order churches to perform gay "marriage" ceremonies.
When they aren't calling blacks "n*****s" in public for supporting Prop 8, setting fire to churches and Mormon temples and other loving, tolerant actions.
Once again, the liberal left demonstrate their tolerance for diversity. As long as you believe everything they do, you will be supported, but if you step out of the box and think for yourself you will then be subjected to some of the childish and immature comments (witness the titles some of the posters use - I'm sure Kathy is immune to name calling,comments about her appearance, etc. etc.) - grow up, high school is over.
Tony P.
If I apply your rigorous scientific methodology to my city I observe the following:
1: Our paper publishes the daily forecast temperature.
2: It also publishes the record high for that date and the year it occurred.
3: The overwhelming majority of record highs for each day occurred in the first half of the 20th century. (1900 to 1950 for the date challenged.)
Ergo, the world is destined for global cooling and we are all going to freeze to death.
Incidentally, your reference to Kathy drowning no doubt is based upon Al Gore's assertion that the ocean's will rise 20 feet. I was going to submit the infamous climate change hockey stick graph in the category of most hilarious and thoroughly debunked lie but I think Al's 20 feet rise deserves at least equal billing.
Present one solid piece of evidence which shows that gay marriages would harm heterosexual couples.
Tony P.
If I apply your rigorous scientific methodology to my city I observe the following:
1: Our paper publishes the daily forecast temperature.
2: It also publishes the record high for that date and the year it occurred.
3: The overwhelming majority of record highs for each day occurred in the first half of the 20th century. (1900 to 1950 for the date challenged.)
Ergo, the world is destined for global cooling and we are all going to freeze to death.
Incidentally, your reference to Kathy drowning no doubt is based upon Al Gore's assertion that the ocean's will rise 20 feet. I was going to submit the infamous climate change hockey stick graph in the category of most hilarious and thoroughly debunked lie but I think Al's 20 feet rise deserves at least equal billing.
Liberals are feminists who don't judge professional women on their looks and weight?
Another liberal lie: all men are born equal. This is not true since people are born rich and poor, black and white.
Here is a BIG LIE from liberals: inter-racial marriage is good for America.
FALSE. Inter-racial marriages opened the door to a slippery slope that enabled same-sex marriages.
Duke Rape case
Trig Palin
McCain had affair with staffer
Worst hurricane season evar!
McCain doesn't know how to use Internet
Palin thinks Europe is a country
I love the response from the liberals. Nothing to offer but petty insults. Typical.
Liberal lies of the last SEVERAL years:
1. Bush lied.
2. Bush "shredded" the Constitution.
3. The rich don't pay their "fair share" in taxes.
4. Republicans are rich. Democrats are "working class."
5. Iraq is a disaster.
6. Barack Obama will bring "change."
7. Republicans are narrow minded and intolerant. Democrats are broad minded and inclusive.
8. Democrats serve the best interests of gay people.
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An oldie but a goodie: "It's just tissue"
Crop failures.
It is a well known fact that the equator is largely devoid of life and utterly uninhabitable.
Conservative Lie #1: "Jesus saves"
Top liberal lie of 2008.....
Mark Steyn can't sing.
Ed: Don't know if this guy is married or not, but gay marriage in Canada sure hurt him. This won't let me add links, so google for "Orville Nichols" of Saskatchewan.
Do you really want every Christian marriage commissioner and (eventually) every Christian church to be dragged to court to be forced to perform gay marriages? How important is Freedom of Religion to you as an American? More or less important than the majority of American people being forced to recognize something that is not and has never been considered marriage as marriage?
Lefty lie:
Hope is audacious. Hope, in the absence of rational thought and testicular fortitude, is pusillanimous.
PatrickP cites "The rich don't pay their "fair share" in taxes" as a liberal lie.
Actually, Patrick, it's true. The rich don't pay their fair share. 5% of American taxpayers pay over 50% of the taxes the government collects.
If tax rates on the rich were reduced to a fair level, liberals would be screaming bloody murder.
I nominate the following. President-elect Obama said, ""I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms, but I also identify with the need for crime-ravaged communities to save their children from the violence that plagues our streets through common-sense, effective safety measures. The Supreme Court has now endorsed that view."
He has voted for every gun-control measure that he has had the opportunity to vote on.
Sadly, you conservatives can't face the facts. Obama won. You lost the presidency. You lost Senate seats. You lost House seats. Conservatism and the Republican party has been reduced to a white, rural, Southern regional party.
That Obama is somehow a great speaker?? That IDIOT couldn't put two sentences together on his own.
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Dirty Harry; That is exactly why I have started calling him Obam-UH.
If uh I uh have uh to uh listen uh to uh one uh more uh lie uh of uh how uh he uh had uh no uh discussion uh with uh Blago uh ...
D.
I never heard Reverend Wright preach those type of sermons during my 20-years of attending his church????????
Biggest Lie? "Wall Street Greed and a lack of regulation caused the economic crisis."
It wasn't deregulation, it was mis-regulation.
A better answer: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick....
Ed said, "Present one solid piece of evidence which shows that gay marriages would harm heterosexual couples."
Ed my misty eyed friend... I'm from "that" community and the whole group think mindset within the gay community is top heavy with narrow, intolerant myth making in epic quantities. They know what they talk about in private and would not admit to non gays.
Yes... gay marriage is harmful to heterosexual marriage (what the gay community dismissively call "breeders")
Scholars from Nijmegen University,
Erasmus University Rotterdam,
Nottingham Trent University and Free University Amsterdam have drawn a suspicious correlation between the adoption of same-sex marriage and the decline of marriage in the Netherlands since 1989.
While same-sex marriage is not the only cause of the decline in The Netherlands supporters of same-sex marriage argued forcefully in favour of the (legal and social) separation of marriage from parenting. In Dutch parliament, advocates and opponents alike agreed that same-sex marriage would pave the way to greater acceptance of alternative forms of cohabitation. This has downgraded the institution and the marriage numbers have dropped precipitously to such an extent that the institution is a threatened species there.
Now .... lets bomb other sacred cows of the pro gay marriage advocates. Using Dutch stats, (can Canada be far behind?) even within the community gay-marriage is overblown. Only 3% of gays marry. Half of that statistic are lesbians who only make up 20% of the gay population. The gay-marriage push is a lesbianist (gotta love that word) driven agenda. Gay men are brow beaten to accept the lesbian view of society, whereas gay men just want to have fun and few are into the marriage thing and in fact run in the opposite direction (as the stats attest)
Besides lesbians are notorious low earners, (almost always in some social service position)so what better way than to get high earning gay men to pay for the lesbian marriage agenda advocacy obsession.
Suffice it to say that liberals need more conservative friends to remove the shackles from their brains and lead them from the plantation.
And you're not as pretty as Coulter, either.
Fred, you're as gay as my parents. Please don't misrepresent yourself.
I love the way liberals always shift the goal posts.
Last year, Ann Coulter was an ugly trannie.
Now she's prettier than I am.
You guys just make this stuff up as you go, don't you?
Just keep it up, liberal commenters.
So far this thread has proven that you are bigoted, misogynist, brainwashed, rude, angry and extremely poor researchers.
I dare you to counter my post with actual facts instead of Grade 5 name calling.
You can't, can you?
Kay: You prove the liberal stereotype. Those who have the temerity to hold a view opposite to the conformist liberal must be a fraud. Sorry babe... you'd look pretty foolish in polite company if you accused your opponents of being a liar. I guess in your little world people with opposing views are liars as well.
Just sad.
Scientists mock MSM reporting on "global warming":
James O’Brien, an emeritus professor at Florida State University who studies climate variability and the oceans:
“Global climate change is occurring in many places in the world,” O’Brien said. “But everything that’s attributed to global warming, almost none of it is global warming.”
He took issue with the AP article’s assertion that melting Arctic ice will cause global sea levels to rise.
“When the Arctic Ocean ice melts, it never raises sea level because floating ice is floating ice, because it’s displacing water,” O’Brien said. “When the ice melts, sea level actually goes down. I call it a fourth grade science experiment. Take a glass, put some ice in it. Put water in it. Mark level where water is. Let it [melt]. After the ice melts, the sea level didn’t go up in your glass of water. It’s called the Archimedes Principle.”
Kathy, you can delete this comment again if you like but I will keep posting to make sure your readers know who you are:
Kathy's readers, please google "Quill and Quire Shaidle". You will find the following:
"She wrote the column for four years while on government disability and suffering from crippling arthritis, receiving four Canadian Church Press awards, including one for humour and one for Best National Columnist."
She took public welfare for four years and is Canadian. Some true American conservative!!
Another actual scientist (rather than a divinity school drop out named Al Gore) says today:
“If the issues weren’t so serious and the ramifications so profound, I would have to laugh at it,” said David Deming, a geology professor at the University of Oklahoma who has been critical of media reporting on the climate change issue. …
“The mean global temperature, at least as measured by satellite, is now the same as it was in the year 1980. In the last couple of years sea level has stopped rising. Hurricane and cyclone activity in the northern hemisphere is at a 24-year low and sea ice globally is also the same as it was in 1980.”
Don:
Please... enlighten us... how is government disability the same as welfare. I'll be waitin...
Liberals get acute arthritis as well... just thought I would throw that in for free. You should try it some time.
Don, I don't present myself as an American. My corporate bosses here at Examiner.com knew where I lived when they hired me. They obviously don't care.
Neither do my readers, evidently: my readership is double that of the average Examiner.com politics guide.
Unlike you, I've been covering American politics for years, for Front Page, Pajamas Media, Islamist Watch, the American Spectator, the Dallas Morning News and other outlets.
I was on government disability -- which I paid into via my extorted tax dollars -- because except for a few hours a day, I was bedridden.
I am precisely the kind of person that disability insurance was designed to cover. Are you saying you are OPPOSED to the CPP disability system working as it was meant to? Or do you just approve of people you like getting it??
That's not very tolerant and compassionate of you!
I'm really not sure what your problem is, except that you are jealous of my obvious success while you are an anonymous loser beta male with too much time on his hands.
And I'm just deleting your comments for your own good. You're about to range into defamation territory and I doubt you could afford to face my attorneys...
Fred, nice try. She soaked up public funds for FOUR YEARS while she could have been making her own money, you know . . . bootstraps and all?
She is a hypocrite. Read her other works where she tells the poor they shouldn't be lazy and that they should have tried harder in school. Well, maybe God gave her the Arthritis to teach her a lesson. Isn't that the going Conservative Christian belief? People get diseases because they deserve them? That's certainly what you people seem to be saying about AIDS.
Don, I realize that "hypocrite" is considered the only sin liberals actually recognize, but there is nothing hypocritical about someone who believes that govt disability should exist for the small minority who literally cannot work-- receiving disability.
You obviously missed the part about me being literally bedridden and in constant pain.
However, having grown up below the poverty line, surrounded by lazy welfare bums: yes, I do believe that many so-called poor people are poor because they are stupid and lazy.
Welfare and disability are two different things. Welfare should be abolished.
Your ignorance of what constitutes Christian believe is pretty typical of an angry, misinformed liberal.
Do people "deserve" to get AIDS? For someone who no doubt considers himself scientific and rational, that's an odd anthromorphic way of looking at contagion!
However is AIDS primarily spread through unsafe and yes, immoral behavior like drug use and promiscuity? Yep, that's simply a -- wait for it -- scientific fact!
Now, if you continue to troll here, lob insults, stalk me and come very close to libelling me, I will have to ban you for your own protection.
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