The Zombie (Lie) Apocalypse 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr, considers zombie lies of the right wing. A nugget:
That is the lesson of the birthers and truthers, of Sen. Jon Kyl’s “not intended to be a factual statement” about Planned Parenthood, of Glenn Beck’s claim that conservatives founded the Civil Rights Movement, and of pretty much every word Michele Bachmann says. It seems that not only are facts no longer important, but they are not even the point.
Rather, the point is the construction and maintenance of an alternate narrative designed to enhance and exploit the receiver’s fears, his or her sense of prerogatives, entitlement, propriety and morality under siege from outside forces.
He goes on to look at what the right wing’s imperviousness to truth implies; it’s not pretty.
The facts lean left.
That’s why the right needs lies.
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