I suppose the fact that some of these things can be demonstrated to be correct, if not to the hyperbolic "100 percent" level, means anything here.
Environment A
All researchers need to keep working so they fudge the data to look bad and keep em in jobs
Few scientists, if any, are fudging data deliberately. It remains true that scientists who say there is a major environmental problem do get a lot more funding than scientists who think things are stable. Evolution in action.
Environment B
All radical environmentalists want to regress mankind back to stone age, or better yet back to ape
The key modifier here being "radical." This is largely correct, although most of them have some vague fantasy with everyone living in some odd collectivist post-tech age where nobody is burning fuel but everyone has a computer. When I was in college, geodesic domes with windmills figured prominently in their illustrations of the future. None of them are very clear on the details.
Actually, some radical environmentalists just want mankind extinct. Included in these ranks are Earth First, David M. Graber, David Foreman, John Davis, and others.
Iraq A
It was all about the children and the regime
The regime is gone, and the children aren't dying of the regime's neglect any more. Doesn't suck.
Iraq B
We know he HAD WMD before we invaded. It was all for our security.
If Saddam didn't have WMD, he sure gave a good imitation of someone who did. I'm still wondering about that. I find it very hard to believe that Saddam abandoned permanently an ambition he carried through decades, and the first Gulf War.
Superceded by:
Iraq B1 - All WMD gone to Syria
Nobody has stated this as a fact, especially me. I have seen no credible evidence for it. If WMD or equipment were hidden, it is much more plausible that it is hidden in Iraq where it could be recovered by a returning regime in the future. I can't visualize Saddam trusting Syria or any other nation with it.
Iraq B2 - It's the size of California? How we supposed to know where it's at?
Well? Do you have an answer for that question? Divide the 168,000 square miles of Iraq by the thousand or so people currently assigned to find things.
Iraq C
It was all about the oil
Oops...you stuck one of the Left's in there.
Iraq D/Terrorism A
Anybody who disagrees with US policy is supporting terrorism
No, but the people currently shooting at us in Iraq are no doubt greatly encouraged by reports of political pressure on America to pull out of there, or turn it over to the human targets in blue helmets. And it would be refreshing to see something constructive from the anti-war folks once in a while. Listening to the Left in this country, one would think that absolutely nothing at all had gone right in Iraq.
Iraq E/Terrorism B
All those who disgree are just out to get Bush
Not JUST out to get Bush. But nine times out of ten, Bush is right near the top of the list. Do you listen to these people? Okay, I will grant there are certainly many anti-war people who would be just as hard over against the war in Iraq if Gore was president and he had gone in. However, there are damn few Democratic politicians among them.
Race
The Democrats agenda is to keep black people poor
The more accurate word is "dependent," and it isn't confined to minorities (think elderly). A middle-class, prosperous, educated black person is in serious danger of deciding that maybe the government is more of a liability to him than otherwise. The virulent hatred of the Left for conservative blacks is obvious to any observer.
The goal of the Democrats, and those who share their politics, is a citizenry who is convinced that nothing can happen unless the government makes it happen.
Government
The Democrats would have increased the budget more
Unfortunately, I'm not sure this is true at all any more, although who knows what Gore would have done? Did he sound like Mr. Frugal during the campaign? Certainly I'm not that happy with the Republicans as far as spending goes. I do know that if Hillary had managed her health care coup, Clinton would not have ended his term bragging about surpluses.
Politics
Democrats have only one agenda - to make the US a socialist state
As a deliberate policy? Probably not, with a few notable exceptions. But if you can demonstrate a major Democratic political agenda that doesn't end up going down that road, please point it out.
California
Look, if the shoe were on the other foot, the dems would be leading the parade, the hypocrites. (Davis Out!, Davis Out!)
Talk to the "Impeach Bush" crowd out here. Like I said, there were three recall attempts on Reagan. They just couldn't get the signatures.
Media A
Mainstream media is 100% biased towards the left
To be accurate, it's more like 94 percent by actual survey, and that's just the views of the personnel, not an official policy of the media organizations. It's a mindset, not an organized conspiracy of any kind.
Media B
Mainstream media is 100% biased against Israel
(Note: Not to be confused with old rightist canard that media was all too Jewish)
Not sure what the percentage is here. Lower than 100 percent, certainly. Go back and find how many articles stated that the "roadmap to peace" was not derailed when the Palestinians blew busloads of people to shreds, but days later when Israel responded to the attack. Typical example from the Guardian: The militant groups abandoned the truce on August 21 after Israel assassinated a Hamas leader in a missile strike that followed a suicide bombing which killed 22 people in Jerusalem.
The bias is not anti-Semitism specifically, it's more a general hostility toward any Western nation which is in conflict with...well, those who hate Western nations.
Economy A
Democrats will do all they can to tank the economy in time for next election
Oh, yeah, the Democrats and the press have been talking up the economy for months. You must have missed it.
Economy B
Everything is looking rosy
Predicted growth rate of 4 percent next year. Don't know where you set the bar for "rosy." Let me know.
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