They believe their own talking points. They love to say stuff like Bush was AWOL when he wasn’t. My reaction is always anger, because I think they’re intentionally lying. After all, that’s how the spin game is played. You blow a fact out of proportion, and you use it to beat the opposition over the head with it.
But I just realized that they fervently believe their own talking points. That’s one of the reasons they hate Bush so much. One of their spinmeisters twists something out of proportion, and then they all repeat it as the gospel truth like little robots. So then we end up with prominent Democrats repeating ridiculous stuff about Bush. So ex-President Carter slams bush for being AWOL when he wasn’t. Since Carter truly believes Bush was AWOL, naturally he thinks Bush is Evil with a capital E. In practice, Bush has been much like Clinton in many ways, but none of the Democrats know that, because they’ve all been brainwashed by their own spinmeisters.
Now of course, Republicans play the spin game too, but they seem to either be better at briefing their people, or perhaps they’re just better at spinning. Maybe its just too easy to spin Kerry since he seems to love both sides of every argument. When ever I get some “de-spin” from spinsanity or factcheck.org they always say something like “Well, the Republicans are exaggerating”. When its a Kerry spin, it seems like they say he was just wrong. Thing is, these sites tend to be kind of anti-Bush!
Here’s some samples from FactCheck.org:
Bush Nails Kerry’s Poor Attendance at Intelligence Committee Hearings
Bush says Kerry missed 76% of public hearings. He could have missed even more.
Pro-Kerry group’s ad claims “Bush says he’s going to help companies outsource jobs.” But Bush never said that.
He says new jobs are paying $9,000 less than the old ones. That’s not a fact.
Which explains a lot about this election. I’ve been annoyed for awhile, because while Bush is far from perfect, all I saw the Democrats talking about seemed to be bogus charges instead of anything of substance.
Now I realize. They’re talking about this stupid stuff because they don’t know most of these charges aren’t true.
And I’m supposed to trust these people to run the country? Not!
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