Facts vs. Wisdom
Dennis Prager has been talking about this very subject matter for some time, and now is as good of a time as any to bring it up once again.
The post below is a great example to what looking at facts without context, and observing an event without knowledge of cause and effect can lead.
The DNC does this well in the latest Michael Moore-quality production. When you can paste together quotes and make them all add up to the total, the sum, which you desire without heed or care for what the context and actual story behind such quotes is, you lose the right to call yourself anything but deceptive.
We live in an age where computers and related technology can write a history that never happened yet based on events, quotes, and images that did happen.
While it may be true that every side uses quotes in a way to either boost their own agenda or discredit some other agenda, it becomes not only deceptive but actually dangerous to use quotes and other such 'real' sources in a way to make them sound completely different.
Why does the DNC feel the need to do this? Desperation in the face of failing candidate who has probably been less that truthful for the DNC himself. Now, faced with picking up the pieces and playing the remainder of their hand, they are making every attempt to 'rid' the US of George W. Bush at any cost - even their own credibility.
Fake documents from Rather, - the same guy who softballed an interview with Saddam - Michael Moore's propaganda distortion Triumph of the Will II or whatever it is called, and the usual, almost daily addition to the flip-flip pile are making it harder and harder for the Democrats to look like they represent the values and ideas of moderate America.
Where are the John Kennedys of the Democratic party who can simply acknowledge that certain things need to be done in this country, stand by the claim, and to hell with the radical element of the US who says all war is bad and that the US is an empire-building, modern-day Rome who wants blood spilled and oil barreled?
The post below is a great example to what looking at facts without context, and observing an event without knowledge of cause and effect can lead.
The DNC does this well in the latest Michael Moore-quality production. When you can paste together quotes and make them all add up to the total, the sum, which you desire without heed or care for what the context and actual story behind such quotes is, you lose the right to call yourself anything but deceptive.
We live in an age where computers and related technology can write a history that never happened yet based on events, quotes, and images that did happen.
While it may be true that every side uses quotes in a way to either boost their own agenda or discredit some other agenda, it becomes not only deceptive but actually dangerous to use quotes and other such 'real' sources in a way to make them sound completely different.
Why does the DNC feel the need to do this? Desperation in the face of failing candidate who has probably been less that truthful for the DNC himself. Now, faced with picking up the pieces and playing the remainder of their hand, they are making every attempt to 'rid' the US of George W. Bush at any cost - even their own credibility.
Fake documents from Rather, - the same guy who softballed an interview with Saddam - Michael Moore's propaganda distortion Triumph of the Will II or whatever it is called, and the usual, almost daily addition to the flip-flip pile are making it harder and harder for the Democrats to look like they represent the values and ideas of moderate America.
Where are the John Kennedys of the Democratic party who can simply acknowledge that certain things need to be done in this country, stand by the claim, and to hell with the radical element of the US who says all war is bad and that the US is an empire-building, modern-day Rome who wants blood spilled and oil barreled?
posted by Edward W. Prather at 13:14
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