Damn the lies -- part II

By Capt. Fogg

Perhaps you'll recall my post entitled Damn the Lies the other day about the latest act of treason from the Republican Lie Machine, or Fox News as it's sometimes called. It was about a totally fictitious story warning us about how if  "Obama gets his way" voting rights of military personnel would be restricted in Ohio. I suppose that adherents to the Obamahate faith accept unquestioningly that the POTUS writes election laws unconstitutionally in the State of Ohio. I suppose Fox folk are actually stupid enough, or at least so disgustingly desperate enough  to legitimize their hatred of our uppity president that they will believe anything without question and guard the lies with their miserable lives. But, needless to say, the most polite thing an honest observer can say about Fox Fraudster Shannon Bream is that it's a filthy, contemptible lie worthy of tar and feathers.

But who cares? This isn't actually reality you know, it's a kind of fantasy amusement park for deranged sociopaths and other borderline personalities with room-temperature IQs, and it isn't nearly possible for even a well-funded and staffed effort to counter the lies or disseminate the facts. It's not just that there isn't enough money outside of the insurgency, it's also that believing the lies is a mighty fortress of faith. If you don't like the Flavor Aid, why then, you're a liberal, and that's that.

So, sure "that Obama" hates soldiers or "warriors" or "warfighters," as the anger merchants like to call any GI who ever peeled a potato. It's all just another passion play. So why get angry about the latest round of TV ads, paid for by unidentified "concerned citizens" who actually are the Koch's Folks or Rupert's Raiders insisting in full snark mode that "that Obama" has removed the work-for-welfare system put into place by that other Commie, that most far-left liberal ever, not the real president but that one-term-at-most Bill Clinton.

Do I have to tell you it ain't true? Probably not if you've read this far. Should I mention that not only is it not true, even in part, but that what the White House is trying to accomplish with further welfare reform is to accede to the long time requests of Republican governors to allow them the flexibility to tailor their state's programs to their needs?

Perhaps it's galling to the Fascists and Bigots and Brown Shirts masquerading as Conservatives that, as it was with Bill Clinton, the man they tried to portray as another Trotsky was actually more conservative than they were in some respects and no further to the left than the center. It's nearly as galling to me that a mob of irate patriots doesn't put these lying bastards, these unscrupulous despoilers of liberty, truth, justice, democracy, and decency in a pillory and piss in their faces.

(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)