Blogging takes time. On some days, depending on the topic and amount of research required, it can take quite a bit of time. My task would be a lot easier and would take much less time if I just made shit up when supporting facts were required. And it would be even easier than that if I did away altogether with the need for facts, asserting that everything I say is true because I say it is.
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How convenient would that be? I'd do almost no work at all while critics and readers would have to do copious work to correct and disprove all of my bullshit by citing facts. Such is the life of being a conservative pundit: spend a few minutes ranting off the top of one's head and then hit the golf course, leaving others to clean up the mess. This is the running battle that the left- and right-wing political classes have been fighting for two decades. Being left-of-center in America consists of little more than expending time and energy correcting widely-held misconceptions based on things Republicans make up or, less cynically, believe is true but isn't. It's a battle that can never be won. They will simply make up more crap.
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Why? Because they derive benefit from doing so and it's free. Hot air is a public good, and unfortunately for those who have to deal with its consequences it is virtually inexhaustible.
It took the House GOP about 90 minutes of strategizing to settle on a unified message based on half-truths, distortions, and fabrications about the stimulus legislation.
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Conversely, it took the Democrats two weeks and untold time, effort, and money to respond – an effort in which they were only partially successful. It took Ann Coulter five minutes to spout off a paragraph in her new screed about how the Council of Conservative Citizens is unfairly maligned as a racist group. In response it took one or more people at the Southern Poverty Law Center a couple days to collect and present the reams of evidence disproving her claim. The two ideologies live in separate worlds. In one world, facts, logic, and evidence make things true or false. In the other, saying something loudly enough and believing it's true makes it so.
The right loves to exploit this imbalance. They know that every 10 seconds they spend making shit up results in a few hours of work undoing the damage. They understand that even when their nonsense is disproven at great cost by their political opponents, some appreciable segment of the population will continue to believe it anyway. It's a win-win-win: liberals are forever occupied with the Sisyphean task of rolling a boulder of pure bullshit up a steep hill, the GOP doesn't have to put any effort into its agenda, and some voters even buy the nonsense to boot.
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The talk radio crowd are limited only by their imaginations whereas the rest of us are saddled with the burden of making sense, which is quite a bit more difficult than flapping one's gums and making sound.
kulkuri says:
If you got paid the kind of money those Wing-nut pundits get, would you bother researching for facts when that might mean losing your high paying gig?? They keep throwing shit at the wall to see what will stick. Like you said, there are a bunch of people that will believe anything they are told as long as it comes from the NeverRight-Wingnuts. Listen to the call-in shows on C-SPAN and you'll hear them repeat all the half-baked ideas of the Idiot pundits of the NeverRight.
Matthew says:
I'm scared of the writer of this blog post, because he's an Arab.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QhJJBfwJME
Can you in fact deny that you are an Arab, Ed? I presume that you cannot!
Besides, it's logically impossible to prove a negative, so you can't really prove that you're not an Arab. Therefore, you're an Arab.
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Man, this is easy. This is way better than actual thinking or research. Thanks for showing me the way, Ed!
J. Dryden says:
Churchill said, as he said so many things, best: "A lie gets halfway round the world before the truth gets a chance to put its pants on." Bloviation is junk food; truth is salad and fiber supplements. The booboisee will always have an endless appetite for the former and a tenous tolerance for the latter. Where's Mencken/Voltaire/Bierce when you need him?
merl says:
My FIL is convinced that Hilary Clinton is a lesbian. also that she killed her male lover. I try to tell him that lesbians don't take male lovers. Just to shut him up I said "Don't you mean she's bi"? He says no, she's a dyke.
And then I laughed my ass off and now I change the subject and won't talk politics anymore.
Meaning I still have to listen to his rants, I just don't respond. There's no point, he is right and that's all there is to it.
Michael says:
Amen, Ed. You nailed it.
Doug says:
great comments. I agree. I often spend a fair amount of time putting links together to refute wingnut stuff I have friends tell me they heard. It does take time to get the truth understood. It is time well spent.
j says:
Well said Ed!