Saturday, September 1, 2012

Daily Kos: Propaganda is one thing; prevarication is another.

Daily Kos: Propaganda is one thing; prevarication is another.:


Propaganda is one thing; prevarication is another.

That is just one of the many powerful lines from a brilliant op ed in tomorrow'sNew York Time by the fantastic Charles M. Blow.  The piece is titled The G.O.P. Fact Vacuum and begins:
Honesty is a lost art. Facts are for losers. The truth is dead.Pick one.
The piece has a major focus on the words of Paul Ryan from Thursday night, including the now-viral takedown on Foxnews.com by Sally Kohn (who is an unpaid op ed writer there).  After quoting some from Kohn, and from other criticisms of Ryan's prevarications, Blow offers:
So much was written about this and other Republican attempts to distort and deny the truth this week.  But I’m beginning to worry that many Americans are growing weary of isolating the lies,