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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's claim about
federal funding for seniors to play "World of Warcraft" turns out to be
fantasy... blah blah blah.
"While lawmakers have
a right to question whether federal funding should go to studies
involving video games, Cantor made a bold claim about "World of
Warcraft" that is simply not supported by the facts." [Full]
I
don't like or trust Eric Cantor. However. Posting
someone's nonfactual e-mail without fact-checking (something I've done
more than once) does not make me a liar; it makes me careless with
facts at times. So, the Washington Guardian is wrong to
charge Cantor with telling a lie in this case. But that's not
what this is really about.
The willy-nilly labeling as lies
is a favorite device of the left. When President Bush
announced that Saddam Hussein had WMD, and none were found after being
trucked into Syria, he was falsely labeled a LIAR by the anti-war
left
machine, including the the democrats in congress who dittoed Bush's
charge. When Bill Clinton said "I did not have sex ...), and
almost anything else he has ever uttered, he was lying, and is
therefore a liar*.
So there's that.
The second reason to spank the Washington Guardian is this. The Biggest Whopper last week (as it has
been for virtually every week of his presidency) belongs to Barry Obama
Soetoro. WOODWARD: Obama fibs on budget cuts...
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*I think lies
must be premeditated, so people like Bill Clinton
(sociopaths)—who actually believe their self-serving versions— may have
some
wiggle room. His Monica lie was premeditated, and I think I
became pretty good at decoding his facial tics and body language in
other conscious lies. He seemed to have given himself a pass on
anything that was political, but could not do that with his personal
life. Sociopaths of course should never hold important stations
in life, except maybe as foreman of the prison chain gang, or the
like.
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