Republican Lies category archive
School for Scamdal 0
At the Des Moines Register, Steve Westerberg dissects the lies that lying liars are spreading about public schools and libraries to advance an agenda of racism and privatization.
He focuses on Iowa, but it’s happening all over the country.
Here’s one bit of bunk he debunks; follow the link for more.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy comments at the Youtube page:
Releases of information from the Dominion Voting Machines lawsuit against Fox Network have that Fox commentators knew The Big Lie by Trump about a ‘stolen election’ was complete bullshit, but they pushed it anyway, knowing that it helped to boost ratings. Mangy Fetlocks offers this humble song about it.
All the News that Fits, Foxy Shady Dept. 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini explores the evidence.
Riding the Republican Road 0
Aside:
I never drove the L. I. E. The few times my job took me to Long Island, I cut across Staten Island to the Verrazzano Bridge to the Belt.
I had a gig in Amityville once. It was not horrifying. In fact, it was rather nice.
All the News that Fits 0
At Fox News, the truth will out the door . . . .
Follow the link for more.
Afterthought:
It doesn’t seem like much of a stretch to me to suggest that Fox News is the right-wing’s own Pravda.
Foxy Shady 0
(Short commercial at the end.)
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At the Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler sees echoes–well, heck, more than echoes–of Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare in the tactics Republicans are deploying to stoke fears the American students might (gasp!) be taught America’s history. Here’s how he starts his article:
The best answer to that question is another question: Why are we allowing it in Kansas, in 2023?
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Special Bonus QOTD 0
George Orwell once said,
Paul Krugman suggests that Sarah Huckbee Shanders’s response to President Biden’s State of the Union Address brings that quotation to life. Follow the link for the evidence.
Debunking de Bunk 0
The College Board has responded to Florida Man’s efforts to white wash–I use that term advisedly–American history as taught in Florida schools. Here’s a bit of their response:
Follow the link for the complete letter, in which they debunk in a detailed in a point-by-point manner Florida Man’s bunk.
An Empty Case of Whine 0
Once again, a court throws out a Trump lawsuit because there’s no there there.
Durham’s Bull 0
Michele Goldberg exposes the manure spreaders.
Conning with Gas 0
Clarence Page looks at the GOP’s ginned up gasp-fest about gas stoves. A snippet:
Rest easy, the Biden administration says. No such raids are planned to snatch your stove or any other home appliances. But to some influencers, particularly of the right-wing persuasion, the rumor itself was too tantalizing to be encumbered by anything so quaint and tiresome as facts.
Follow the link for the facts.
The Lies of the Land, Florida Man Dept. 0
Fabiola Santiago tells of her attempt to get Florida officials to define “woke” on the record. This snippet is the closest thing she could find to an “official” definition (follow the link for the full story of her quest).
Based on that, it seems to me that “woke” means “realistic.”
Ipso facto, “anti-woke” means “delusional.”
And AL.com’s J. D. Crowe got it right.