by David Michael Green

"I wish I had a nickel for every time a conservative told a lie in order to sell an ideology that would otherwise be hopelessly unappealing.

"But, then, what the hell would I do with ten kazillion, trillion, dollars? I wouldn’t know how to spend that much loot.

"These lies are legend, and they’re endlessly retold. Everything from the one about the liberal bias in the media, or the one about Ronald Reagan ending the Cold War, to the one about how the private sector is so much more efficient than the government. And how about Saddam’s arsenal of WMD, eh? Or the tax cuts that weren’t going to drive the federal government into deficit? Or remember when George Bush told us that the war in Iraq was over, before it had even really started? Or the bit about how global warming is just a great big conspiracy among those noted well-known cabalists, er … climatology scientists?"

Etc., and so on.

Posted without comment. Unless posting is a comment. Hopefully, being without comment and on Flame I can wiggle out of it. I won't say we've all read these claims, ad nauseum, or that we all might disagree with them, which may not be true. What I can say is that from a purely literary standpoint, without taking any side in the matter, it is inspirational the way the author has organized and connected his thoughts, using point, counterpoint and even a trace of irony and/or sarcasm to make HIS points. Not necessarily anyone elses.

Yr. Obd't non-partisan srvnt. of the neutral, inoffensive variety,

Arf