Liberal Lies, Hard Facts
Are you sick of the liberal myths, distortions and down right lies about President Bush? Are you tired of the left's re-writing of history and social engineering? Instead of my blog, I'm going to reprint a portion of a column from Townhall.com written by someone a lot smarter than I and definately knows what he's talking about: Thomas Sowell.
President Bush, like Ronald Reagen before him and the innumerable others who are out of favor among liberals, has repeatedly been depicted as such a mental lightweight that he is not in the same league with brilliant guys like Al Gore and John Kerry.
The fact is, both George W. Bush and John Kerry went to Yale, where Bush had a higher grade point average. Bush also scored higher than Kerry on intelligence tests that both took in the military. Gore went to Harvard, where he finished in the bottom fifth of his class two years in a row.
Grades and test scores are not everything, but they are something-and those who are convinced that their guys are way smarter have no facts at all to back up this widely and fervently believed notion.
The cold fact is that anyone who spouts the liberal line is likely to be depicted as sophisticated, if not brilliant and anyone who opposes it is likely to be considered dull, if not stupid, in the liberal media.
The grand political fallacy of the age is that the Republicans are the party of wealth, while the Democrats are the party of compassion for the little guy. This is something that has been assumed and repeated so often that it has become a "well-known fact" without any hard evidence being asked for or given.
In the 2000 elections, the counties that voted for Bush had a smaller percentage of their population with annual incomes over $100,000 than the counties that voted for Gore. The Bush counties also had a higher percentage of their population earning under $30,000 a year.
It has become axiomatic in the liberal media that big-money donors give most of that big money to the Republicans. But the hard data show that the top ten donors to political campaigns, gave far more to the Democrats, with the lone exception being the National Association of Realtors, who gave 51% to the Democrats and 49% to the Republicans.
"Racism" is the trump card in the indictment of Republicans. But the cold fact is the whole Jim Crowe era in the South was dominated by Democrats. A higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for civil rights legislation.
Bill Clinton's cabinet consisted overwhelmingly of white males while Bush's cabinet has been the most ethically diverse in history.
But who cares about facts anymore?
President Bush, like Ronald Reagen before him and the innumerable others who are out of favor among liberals, has repeatedly been depicted as such a mental lightweight that he is not in the same league with brilliant guys like Al Gore and John Kerry.
The fact is, both George W. Bush and John Kerry went to Yale, where Bush had a higher grade point average. Bush also scored higher than Kerry on intelligence tests that both took in the military. Gore went to Harvard, where he finished in the bottom fifth of his class two years in a row.
Grades and test scores are not everything, but they are something-and those who are convinced that their guys are way smarter have no facts at all to back up this widely and fervently believed notion.
The cold fact is that anyone who spouts the liberal line is likely to be depicted as sophisticated, if not brilliant and anyone who opposes it is likely to be considered dull, if not stupid, in the liberal media.
The grand political fallacy of the age is that the Republicans are the party of wealth, while the Democrats are the party of compassion for the little guy. This is something that has been assumed and repeated so often that it has become a "well-known fact" without any hard evidence being asked for or given.
In the 2000 elections, the counties that voted for Bush had a smaller percentage of their population with annual incomes over $100,000 than the counties that voted for Gore. The Bush counties also had a higher percentage of their population earning under $30,000 a year.
It has become axiomatic in the liberal media that big-money donors give most of that big money to the Republicans. But the hard data show that the top ten donors to political campaigns, gave far more to the Democrats, with the lone exception being the National Association of Realtors, who gave 51% to the Democrats and 49% to the Republicans.
"Racism" is the trump card in the indictment of Republicans. But the cold fact is the whole Jim Crowe era in the South was dominated by Democrats. A higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for civil rights legislation.
Bill Clinton's cabinet consisted overwhelmingly of white males while Bush's cabinet has been the most ethically diverse in history.
But who cares about facts anymore?
posted by Northern Exposer at 05:41
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