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« on: January 31, 2012, 09:02:40 am » |
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Bill Maher was talking about the same thing.. Not the SOTU, but the 'facts' part.. A guest of his (R) California started to condemn Obama and the democrats for trying to take way guns and the right to own them.. Maher laid into him saying 'bubble.. you're in the bubble because that never happened, Obama actually extended gun rights".. after a lot of exchange on that and with this guy also saying Obama wanted to gut the defense, where Maher again had to tell him the 'facts' of Obama increasing that budget twice and only asking for a 1% reduction this time.. and saying "sure, that 1% is really 'gutting' it'" .. after being given facts, the guy finally spilled exactly what the problem is..
Paraphrased of course
"Well, all you have to do is look at the democratic opinions over the last decade and you can see these are things they want to do, and Obama is the head of the dem party, so he wants to take away guns and cut defense"
Maher nailed it when he said "There you go, you're admitting that it's not Obama you are against.. it's the make-believe guy in your head that you're against..."
So many talking heads have been picking up on the same thing.. the GOP isn't running against the real Obama, they are running against the boogey-man in their head...
and since they are running against their own fairy-tale.. facts don't matter..
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Facts are the center. We don’t pretend that certain facts are in dispute to give the appearance of fairness to people who don’t believe them. Balance is irrelevant to me. It doesn’t have anything to do with truth, logic or reality. ~Charlie Skinner (the Newsroom)
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