Of late big lies have been publicized. The most famous is Bill O'Reilly, who famously has claimed that he was in combat several times, while a newsman, and understands what it is like to be in the military under fire.
Unfortunately for the truth, he has no military background whatsoever and his most famous claim about being under fire has been discredited several times. Recently "Mother Jones", yes a liberal magazine, brought forth information that has been known for years, proving that O'Reilly not telling the truth about his being under fire in the Falklands War. This is old news. CBS, not exactly a liberal outlet, has published these facts twenty years ago.
Rudy Guiliani recently claimed that President Obama "hates America". He then goes on to wonder how that is possible since the President's mother was white.
Conservatives don't understand the calls of racism coming from everywhere.
Really? Really. To imply that because you are African American (the black side in the President's case) means: 1. You hate America. 2. You are a communist. 3. You are not born in America. Then to pivot when people call foul and call it the racism it most assurely is....Big Lie manipulation to the nth degree.
Then there is the tobacco and oil industry.
I use mainline newspapers and magazines as my sources. Unlike the inevitable conservative website I am endlessly referred to, I refer my Facebook and Blogger followers to real news outlets: you know, Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine; CBS News, NBC, ABC.... all liberal publications?
The latest is the tobacco industry: under court order to admit they lied over decades about the dangers of smoking, they just refuse to comply. Mind you, they just won't admit it....ever!
This is against a federal court order. Of course fines are applied, and they just raise the price of cigarettes. And people still buy the killer cigarettes.
Two of the most loved people in my life, my mother and first wife died of tobacco related illnesses..So, I am waiting for a mea culpa from the tobacco companies...Somehow I don't think we're going to get it. Many of you out there are waiting as well.
Big tobacco killed millions by denying and big lying for years about the tragic effects of smoking. People bought the Big Lie that second hand smoke was not harmful; etc.
They, not unlike the climate change deniers of today led by the oil and gas industry, told Big Lies....more efffective. And people died like flies.
And then there's climate change:
A leading "scientist" who denies climate change, was recently outed because he has accepted thousands of dollars for years from the oil and gas industry. As it turns out he is not even a climate scientist, and really doesn't evey qualify to make statements about climate change. In short he doesn't know what he is talking about.
But he does it anyway. The big lie is that the sun is responsible for the majority of climate change today. This is absolutely a falsehood, a Big Lie, that I hear all the time.
And he vehemently denies that the hundred of thousands of dollars he has taken from the oil companies has affected his "science". In short, he is paid off and is lying. And, of course, the lie is a Big One!
When I point these Big Lies out, I am sometimes accused of name calling, falsifying; etc. In short, of lying.
Not a word to refute the big lies, not a word...only "evidence" that liberals "said bad things about George W. Bush", or the statement I get much too much of lately: "I believe it, and nothing can change my mind". Or, who are you to challenge my beliefs, they are my beliefs and I am not going to change them.
In Germany in 1945, the GIs, who were so sickened by what they found in the concentration camps, actually went to German villages when they were close, and forced the citizens to go into the camps, and dispose of the dead and see what the Big Lie brought. Most of them said, I believed what Hitler was saying, now I see I was wrong. But the Lie was too Big and too effective.
It took 55 million dead, and 6 million killed in the Holocaust to have them admit they were duped.
The Japanese, are even worse if that is possible: They fought so hard at Okinawa, refusing to surrender as civilians, throwing their babies off cliffs and following them, because the Big Lie was that American soldiers "ate children". Japan was arming its citizens with pitchforks and sticks, to resist the inevitable invasion that was predicted to kill maybe a million Americans.
The result of Japans accepting the Big Lie, was the decision to drop two Atomic Bombs on Japan, the only way to break the deniers, the "Big Lie" was that strong.
I basically got that from a friend, who said....."Obama is a Muslim, that cinches it for me, I don't care what you or anyone else says...it is my belief". The Big Lie is that strong.
That belief has been planted by the Big Lie propaganda machine that the former mayor of New York and Fox and all the rest are working overtime to spread.
Finally the other whopper: Our famous ex-mayor of New York also claims that the President of the United States became a Communist when he was nine, since he was exposed to a known communist at the time in Kenya.
Ok, I can remember when I was nine carrying around the "Little Red Book" and Marx, Engels and Lenin and studying Communism. Right....nine year olds do that.
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life. At nine, I was playing baseball and tag with the neighborhood kids. I know there were politics, but only when Mom and Dad watched the nightly news, and barely then. President Obama was playing tag when he was nine...
And my Facebook Friends, at least some of them, believe this garbage. The bigger the lie the more effective the propaganda.
As I have warned continuously here, many times: we are losing our faith in democratic government. This is by design. The Big Lie is pepetrated by the Right Wing to discredit democracy and turn us to the alternative.
Propaganda is essential to make this work, and conservative media, including Fox News, are working overtime to make sure they destroy democracy as a functional political remedy.
They are succeeding, poll after poll shows the American People have lost faith in their government. This is being done on purpose.
And the tragedy is that good people, good God fearing, decent people, are buying the lie. Some of my former friends believe so strongly in these lies that they actually have renounced me, and hate me for speaking out.
The only thing than can stop this, is for you to turn off the damned T.V., get off your favorite website, and read the other side. I am not trying, by the way, to convert you to being a Democrat....
I am trying to warn you that we won't have that luxury of democracy, if this lunacy continues.
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