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| My name is Erick, and I'm a big fat liar. |
I'm sorry. I just can't let this go. Not as long as Republicans continue to lie about President Obama's exact words in the faux "you didn't build that" controversy. Every time someone from their side repeats the lie, someone, or many, from our side needs to repeat the truth. We can't stop doing that just because it becomes tiresome. That is what they are hoping we'll do.
Today, RedState, Erick Erickson's conservative blog, flogged the lie for the umpteenth time by omitting the words that came just before the statement.
They wish Obama had said, all on its own, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen," but he didn't. That statement was surrounded by other words that gave it its meaning.
What Obama actually said was:
Today, RedState, Erick Erickson's conservative blog, flogged the lie for the umpteenth time by omitting the words that came just before the statement.
They wish Obama had said, all on its own, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen," but he didn't. That statement was surrounded by other words that gave it its meaning.
What Obama actually said was:
Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Someone else made that happen.
Anyone not addicted to lying will recognize that Obama was referring to the infrastructure businesses need to succeed that they did not build. Even the jerks at RedState know they are lying. No one is that stupid.
It would be like Erick Erickson giving a speech in which he states: "Democrats say we at RedState are lying about President Obama's 'you didn't build that' comment.'" And then I could turn around and say Erick Erickson said "we at RedState are lying about Obama's 'you didn't build that comment,' because Erickson would have said those exact words. That wouldn't have been his meaning, but you can do that when you take things out of context.
You get that. Everyone gets that.
The Obama campaign has started to push back hard against this lie, including this ad below. One of the first rules in politics is: don't let the lies go unanswered. Got that Jennifer Rubin, you idiot.
It would be like Erick Erickson giving a speech in which he states: "Democrats say we at RedState are lying about President Obama's 'you didn't build that' comment.'" And then I could turn around and say Erick Erickson said "we at RedState are lying about Obama's 'you didn't build that comment,' because Erickson would have said those exact words. That wouldn't have been his meaning, but you can do that when you take things out of context.
You get that. Everyone gets that.
The Obama campaign has started to push back hard against this lie, including this ad below. One of the first rules in politics is: don't let the lies go unanswered. Got that Jennifer Rubin, you idiot.
Labels: 2012 election, Barack Obama, conservatives, Erick Erickson, Jennifer Rubin, lies, Mitt Romney
posted by Richard K. Barry at
1:40 PM
2 Comments:
Nice try. The line right in front of the part you quoted is "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life."
The point that Obama was making was quite clear- that individuals deserve nothing for their efforts but rather should thank the state for what little they are allowed to keep.
The poor sap tried to suggest that government gave the wealthy teachers and roads, forgetting that those were paid for through taxes on successful individuals.
Read the whole speech, anyone- I did, and it's a full-on assault on the individual and the kind of speech that the king used to give to the serfs in a feudal society. I can't believe anyone still supports this guy!
By
A Conservative Teacher, at 11:58 PM
Oh please. That's just stupid.
Individuals deserve nothing? A full-on assult on the individual? Feudalism? You claim to have read the whole speech, but apparently that didn't help you grasp anything even remotely resembling the truth. And all you do here is spew the same old right-wing nonsense about Obama, as about everything else.
By
Michael J.W. Stickings, at 1:15 AM
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