Dog Bites Man: DFL-linked pressure group lying like a bunch of crack addicts caught with a stolen Lexus.
Man bites dog; Twin Cities media checks the facts against objective reality.
If you read the Twin Cities center-right alternative media, you know that “Alliance for a “Better” Minnesota” is the most honesty-challenged roomful of bags of suppurating demi-human byproduct since Wes “Lying Sack of Garbage” Skoglund was still on peoples’ rolodexes.
But if you get your news from the Strib, the PiPress, MPR, WCCO or KARE11, you’d never know.
But KSTP5? Glory be – truth matters to someone! Channel Five’s “Truth Test” segment went over A4aBM’s latest TV ad effort and, well, probably lost the A4aBM account for Channel Five.
The ad tries to link Emmer … to Governor Tim Pawlenty. It claims Emmer sided with Pawlenty and opposed a plan that would force CEOs and corporations to pay their fair share of taxes.
This claim is false, at least according to the date of a house vote cited in the ad. On May 10th, Emmer did vote against a bill that would have increased income taxes by $443 million through the creation of one of the highest tax rates in the nation. But it makes no mention of CEO or corporate taxes. Every house Republican voted against it, along with 16 Democrats.
And it gets better:
The ad also claims the two supported a plan that created a huge deficit and cut funding for items such as health care, education, and job training.
This claim is also false. It’s a reference to the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Pawlenty’s 2009 unallotment plan the legislature did not vote on. The ruling did have the effect of reinstating nearly $3 billion from the previous year’s deficit, but it didn’t create a new deficit.
And that man is getting down and gnawing that dog’s leg to the bone:
Based on the series of misleading or false claims, this ad gets an “F” on the Truth Test.
The center-right blogosphere has been catching A4aBM in lies ever since their web site, Twitter and Facebook accounts and ads all went on the air, two minutes after Emmer won the nomination last May.
So why does the DFL and its minions try such transparently, stupidly, sloppily deceitful propaganda?
Because it’s not aimed at smart people. It’s aimed at the people the DFL counts on for winning elections; people who don’t pay attention; people whose understanding of issues stops at the last slogan they heard; people who bring nothing to democracy but a vote for the DFL.
It doesn’t have to pass scrutiny, if they know their audience won’t scrutinize it.
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