I was taken today with the reactions to yesterday's election results and the extent to which many people are using phony "facts" to explain them. Here are some examples:
I made the mistake of watching a short snippet of The Ed Show on MSNBC this afternoon. During the sixty seconds that I watched, I heard Ed and his guest agree that supposedly not a single Republican who won campaigned for the repeal of Obamacare. Now I know that there were probably only a few thousand people actually watching this poor excuse for a "news" show, but most of them probably know that the claim is untrue. For example, Joni Ernst who won in Iowa called for the repeal of Obamacare. Indeed, according to the media watchdog groups, one-third of all Republican ads this year attacked the Democrats on Obamacare, and, of that group, roughly half expressly called for the repeal of the law. Most likely, that means that every person watching the Ed Show today saw a Republican ad that disproved the claim that Ed and his guest made. Here's a link to an article explaining that every newly elected GOP senator campaigned on the full repeal of Obamacare.
I watched president Obama's press conference this afternoon (or as much of it as I could take.) One reporter prefaced her question by saying that the voters had rejected both parties. Really? The Democrats lost about nine senate seats, 18 house seats, four governorships and at least five houses in state legislatures to the Republicans. The Republicans lost one governorship and two house seats to the Democrats. That is a rejection of the Democrats, not of both parties.
President Obama told the press this afternoon that each day he looks for ways that he could change in order to make things better. What can one say about that claim other than to laugh at how preposterous it is? Indeed, Obama's press conference seemed like the start of another presidential effort to avoid doing anything.
I made the mistake of watching a short snippet of The Ed Show on MSNBC this afternoon. During the sixty seconds that I watched, I heard Ed and his guest agree that supposedly not a single Republican who won campaigned for the repeal of Obamacare. Now I know that there were probably only a few thousand people actually watching this poor excuse for a "news" show, but most of them probably know that the claim is untrue. For example, Joni Ernst who won in Iowa called for the repeal of Obamacare. Indeed, according to the media watchdog groups, one-third of all Republican ads this year attacked the Democrats on Obamacare, and, of that group, roughly half expressly called for the repeal of the law. Most likely, that means that every person watching the Ed Show today saw a Republican ad that disproved the claim that Ed and his guest made. Here's a link to an article explaining that every newly elected GOP senator campaigned on the full repeal of Obamacare.
I watched president Obama's press conference this afternoon (or as much of it as I could take.) One reporter prefaced her question by saying that the voters had rejected both parties. Really? The Democrats lost about nine senate seats, 18 house seats, four governorships and at least five houses in state legislatures to the Republicans. The Republicans lost one governorship and two house seats to the Democrats. That is a rejection of the Democrats, not of both parties.
President Obama told the press this afternoon that each day he looks for ways that he could change in order to make things better. What can one say about that claim other than to laugh at how preposterous it is? Indeed, Obama's press conference seemed like the start of another presidential effort to avoid doing anything.
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