Our postmodern president, a good friend of mine points out, has proved that facts don\u2019t matter. The weakest economic recovery in post-World War II history has been sold as a rousing success.<\/p>\n
We increased our troop levels in Iraq, but miraculously we still don\u2019t have any \u201cboots on the ground.\u201d The man who told his supporters, \u201cIf they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,\u201d was sold to America by the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the networks as a post-partisan\u2014one who somehow found a way to blame Republicans for all the country\u2019s ills. Obama also showed that bullying the Supreme Court\u2014calling them out for their Citizens United decision in a State of the Union address\u2014could pay dividends down the road. An intimidated Chief Justice John Roberts used pretzel-like logic to redefine the Obamacare mandate as a tax, though the administration had insisted that it was nothing of the kind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What is it called when “fact-checking” exists to support factlessness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last week, I bagged on Senator Ron Latz for – forget manners for a moment – lying about gun crime in Minnesota. To readers of this blog, it’s no surprise that it was, to a geometric point, baked monkey doodle – so much so that an entire catagory on this blog is dedicated to their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58714,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58713\/revisions\/58714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}