An example of outright lies being accepted as facts? (Iraq, Taliban, weapons)

[migee]

In this forum, and everywhere else that politics are discussed, the left wing and liberal mantra is that big business is solidly behind the Republican Party.

Yet, when I look at this chart of major political contributors, and where they are contributing, it seems that the Democrats are the ones stuffing their pockets with big business bucks...

Is this just another example of how lies are so easily accepted as fact by an uninformed public?


2008 Election Overview: Top Overall Donors

[chielgirl]

Kind of like the lie that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? That Iraq supported the Taliban? Those kind of lies?

Where has anyone stated that the Dems aren't associated with big business?

[KantLockeMeIn]

Or the lie that Lincoln freed the slaves?

[bryan61]

There were weapons of mass destruction and Iraq was supporting the taliban/al queda. This argument allows for gray area and ones own evaluation of the evidence presented. Just because the liberal media bangs pots and pans clammoring about a conspiracy doesnt make it true.

none of this has anything to do with the facts presented in the orignal post which seem to indicate that democrats are bought and paid for like any other crooked politician

[chielgirl]

No one said the Dem's weren't.
bryan, you might want to check the facts on both the taliban and wmd.

[Huckleberry3911948]

yes. the frightening part of it all as we get older and hopefully smarter we become alarmingly aware of the pervasiveness of lies and misrepresentation around us. fortunately this unbearable discomfort for it all is prevented in the nick of time by retiring us asap hopefully on a very good pension and whisking us off to the senior center where we will sit in on a hand of bridge and pretend to be soft in the head. works for me.
(ps my bridge is improving)

[BLAZER PROPHET]

That's why I started the "sheep" thread a few weeks ago. It's always unbelievable how many people I meet who simply do not have a clue what their political party stands for except what they are told to believe by their union or a particular newpaper or TV star... genuine cluless people with no ability for independent thought. It's about 80% of the population for the most part.

[bryan61]

What facts. The facts that saddam slaughtred hundreds and thousands of Kurds with WMDs we sold him. The fact that after he surrendered he wouldnt let us or the UN in to put a scope up his surrendered rump to find those weapons.

How about the fact that George SR left the idiot Saddam in power after the Gulf war which was a foreign policy blunder even worse than the war its taken to correct. This all didnt happen in a vaccuum, dubya was just the dumb enough puppet we the people voted into office to correct the errors.

Fundemantal Islamists hate you as much as they do me

[burdell]

Originally Posted by bryan61

There were weapons of mass destruction and Iraq was supporting the taliban/al queda. This argument allows for gray area and ones own evaluation of the evidence presented. Just because the liberal media bangs pots and pans clammoring about a conspiracy doesnt make it true.

Not according to the 9/11 Commission's Report.

[jdiddy]

Originally Posted by migee

In this forum, and everywhere else that politics are discussed, the left wing and liberal mantra is that big business is solidly behind the Republican Party.

Yet, when I look at this chart of major political contributors, and where they are contributing, it seems that the Democrats are the ones stuffing their pockets with big business bucks...

Is this just another example of how lies are so easily accepted as fact by an uninformed public?


2008 Election Overview: Top Overall Donors

Citigroup didn't donate 2.5 million dollars, its individual employees chose to donate. They may or may not had thier company's interest in mind when choosing who to donate towards.