Chanting Points Memo: DFL Busted Lying
By Mitch Berg
As Tom Emmer was setting up at Permac Industries in Burnsville to announce the first part of its budget plan, the Minnesota DFL party’s Twitter account announced…:
Spoiler Alert: Tom Emmer to Hold Press Conference at Company Saved by the Recovery Act Funding He Opposes http://ht.ly/2A8QT #goDFL
This prompted other DFLers to crow that Permac had been “saved” by the stimulus, or “expanded” because of it. They harped, naturally, on the irony; Emmer opposes the measures that, they said, kept Permac in business.
Wow. That woulda been a fumble.
Except it’s not true.
Permac has received not one nickel of cash from the stimulus.
Two sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed that Permac hired a worker who’d gone through a Dakota County training program that had received stimulus money to help train the unempoyed. The hiree was an unemployed worker.
Permac also got a tax break from the Bush Administration stimulus. Which, if you’ve been paying attention, is exactly the sort of “stimulus” Emmer proposed at the press conference fifteen minutes later.
Why is the DFL lying to the people?
UPDATE: It wasn’t just leftyblogger Sally Jo Sorenson who claimed the tax break and the county-trained worker “saved” Permac. The DFL’s press release said so.
I’m working on contacting a Permac source to address this gross DFL distortion.
September 6th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes the truth. Goebbels I believe?
September 6th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
I’ve done some research; Goebbels said it, but it’s largely taken out of context. He was apparently accusing Jews of “repeating big lies”, not telling ppl how to win PR arguments.
But the DFL is doing exactly that, yes.
September 6th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
The DFL lying? Say it ain’t so! I thought that was the MO of the national Democrat party.
September 6th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
I am shocked! Shocked I tell you!
September 6th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
The DFL has no interest in the truth. Even when it bites them in the ass.
September 6th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Dog Gone likes to fact check. Perhaps she should offer her services to the DFL.
September 6th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Notice how they call it the Recovery and Re-investment Act, not Stimulus Package. Just another great example of them hijacking the language.
September 6th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Their idea of a stimulus package is catching a conservative candidate’s kid drinking beer.
September 6th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
These kind of political “gotcha’s” are a waste of everyone’s time. What’s next? “Emmer drives a GMC truck that he bought after the bail out!”. Or “Dayton uses tax loopholes to avoid MN high tax rates!” These are empty distractions. Hell, if Democrats cared about hypocrisy they wouldn’t vote to elect so many public school supporting politicians who send their own kids to private school.
September 6th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Even if it were true, so what? With all the “stimulatin'” money sloshing around, it would be very difficult to not get some one way or another. That doesn’t validate the policy. If I object to how roads are funded, am I therefore not to travel the hiways and byways?
September 6th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Valid point skipper but you are using reasoning. Something the DFL doesn’t , and hopes its useful idiot followers don’t either.
September 6th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
“Night Writer Says:
September 6th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Dog Gone likes to fact check. Perhaps she should offer her services to the DFL.”
I think that is an excellent idea Night Writer. I’ve been forwarding on to Mitch, btw, instances where that fact checking benefits the right, so maybe I’m not partisan enough for the DFL.
Hope you had a great run at the fair Mitch!
September 7th, 2010 at 6:59 am
I always do, DG!
September 7th, 2010 at 8:02 am
Dog Gone said:
“I’ve been forwarding on to Mitch, btw, instances where that fact checking benefits the right, so maybe I’m not partisan enough for the DFL.”
So it is your intent to seem “unbalanced”?
September 7th, 2010 at 10:13 am
someone needs to use their OCD is a more productive manner.
September 7th, 2010 at 10:16 am
Troy/Ben,
DG’s forward are occasional and on-topic. Mental illness would not seem to be a factor.
September 7th, 2010 at 10:29 am
But judgment might be.
September 7th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Mitch,
I am not saying she is mentally ill, I’m just saying that the efforts she puts into the comments (which are usually longer than your actual posts) could be better used elsewhere.
September 7th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Ben,
It’s certainly an observation. I figure people can spend their time as they best see fit.
September 7th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
I meant “unbalanced” in a “reporting” sense.
We get to see the DFL-Defender, but she only shows her GOP-Sensitive-Side to you. 😉
September 7th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
We usually don’t see her come back after we ask her questions.