Student of history
As with the history of the Berlin Airlift, the history of the East-meets-West, and that of D-Day, so we have the history of the recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United. Time after time President Obama or his team get their history wrong. What is the reason? (a) laziness; (b) incompetence; (c) thinking the facts don’t matter; (d) thinking Americans are too stupid to notice; (e) all of the above; (f) none of the above?
January 29th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
History is written by the victors; the dominant culture creates its own “truth”; there is no “truth”, only the dominant narrative.
Why would someone who believes there are no facts bother to get his facts right?
January 30th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Why would someone who once said of his nomination as the Democrat candidate for the President of the United States, that this would be the day when, “We will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment … when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…”
A person with this god-like power doesn’t need to check facts. He simply creates them out of whole cloth!
January 30th, 2010 at 5:49 am
all of the above.
One gimmick of the administration seems to be to count on the news cycle and memory being short. Tell a big fat lie, and assume most won’t recognize it.
Then few will give much coverage to any dispute, and after a few days, the power of the lie has had its effect. Then the “dissenters” are labeled as tea baggers and or racists.
But that game seems to be getting a little old.
January 31st, 2010 at 5:00 am
The real answer is that we no longer shun liars. The controversy around Joe Wilson’s outburst was all about Wilson’s manners, not Obama’s lack of veracity. Even the media does it, regularly, despite their professional fact checkers. We get what we accept.