Liberty to Lie - NY Times

[ToxMarz]

CAMPAIGN STOPS November 1, 2012, 12:25 AM

Liberty to Lie
By CHARLES M. BLOW


This election may go down in history as the moment when truth and lies lost their honor and stigma, respectively.

Mitt Romney has demonstrated an uncanny, unflinching willingness to say anything and everything to win this election. And that person, the unprincipled prince of untruths, is running roughly even with or slightly ahead of the president in the national polls.

What does this say about our country? What does it say about the value of virtue....

..... Unfortunately, there is some evidence that facts and the people who check them don’t carry the same weight that they once did.

First, the right’s disinformation machine is, explicitly and implicitly, making the argument that facts (science, math, evidence) are fungible and have been co-opted by liberal eggheads. They have declared war on facts in response to what they claim is a liberal war on faith.This is an utterly false and ridiculous argument, but it works on some people.

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[flying_wahini]

1. I can't wait for this election to be over....

unless we lose, of course.

[DevonRex]

2. Thanks so much!

I'm currently driving my RW relatives crazy with articles like this on FB. This made a grand addition.