Donald Sensing muses today on the inherent contradictions in the Left's noisy claims that President Bush has "lied" about the war with Iraq, and finds his way in short order to a bedrock conclusion:
To the Left, a lie is any kind of statement that hurts their cause, truth is any kind of statement that helps their cause. "Facts" have no independent veracity. When Bush tells the truth about Iraq, the Left says he’s lying, because the truth hurts the Left’s cause, which is to get power no matter how, even if - especially if - they have to lie to get power, because in the Orwellian world of the Left, any statement that serves their purpose is definitionally true, and any that harms it is definitionally false.
It's now obvious that the President's political and ideological opponents are focusing on just a few key themes between now and November 2004, all lacking in substance but all easy to present via a compliant media:
· the President is a liar
· the President is corrupt
· the President is a dunce and in over his head
These relentless messages will be leavened with an underlying shot of "Republicans hate black people" and off we go. This is going to be a long year -- a shooting war abroad, a war of words and ideas at home.
Posted by Alan at September 22, 2003 12:36 PM