So let’s start with the video, and afterwards, I’ll let you in on the joke.
Now as promised, here’s the joke. The sign asked if President Obama was a Keynesian and not if he was a Kenyan. How quickly the crowd of Obama supporters jumped to the conclusion that some wild conspiracy theory were being asserted. Two things jumped out at me. One, not very many of the enlightened liberal Obama supporters had a clue that there is something known as the Keynesian School of economics. None of them knew that Obama’s domestic policies are entirely based on that completely debunked economic theory. (Debunked from the standpoint of the benefit of government deficit spending acting as a catalyst for greater economic growth. Indeed, Maynard Keynes’ theory of aggregate markets are still useful.) Not one of the people in that crowd knew that it was indeed a Democrat Party Apparatchik working on the Hillary Clinton campaign named Phillip Berg who started and maintains to this day the Obama born in Kenya stupidity.
Sometime within the next month, and several times over the next two years, we will all read news stories which will tell us that people who get their information from sources perceived to be conservative are less informed. There will be, “studies,” cited in Newsweek and Time which prove this to be the case. As usual, it will be baloney. For those of you with short memories, let me show examples of this.
We’ve already seen how well informed the subscribers to liberal sources of information are, but why not one more example, because it’s fun.
None of the Obama voters realized that the Democrats were in control of Congress. None of the Obama voters could identify the Speaker of the House or the Senate Majority Leader.
Some things just get tiring. Many times people who wish to disagree with my position on something, they will immediately jump to an adhominem attack. Fly_O, quit getting your news from Faux News. I much rather would debate with someone who will take up the counter argument and offer their own position. I don’t really even watch Fox. It seems to be the default argument for anyone looking to deflate the conservative viewpoint. Attacking the messenger and not the message allows someone to sidestep debate and hide from any real statement of counter position. I have been told by several liberals that my arguments are misleading, but not supplied with actual examples of how. Oh, certainly people can pick the pepper from the fly shit, cite a factoid which may be in error, which seldom has any impact on the broader argument, but as for substantive refutation, not a chance.
On this blog, I have cited and shown several instances of dishonesty posing as news on MSNBC, CNN, the NYT, NewsWeek, Time and several other sources. No real or tangible evidence of Fox distorting its reporting has been shown to me. I do not mean this as a piece glorifying Fox, but as a way to point out that people who live in glass houses should refrain from rock throwing.
Over the next two years, we will be inundated with stories of an Obama Boom, and told about how Barak Obama laid his hands on the economy and saved us all from the abyss. Straw man arguments will be positioned routinely as though they represent the actual counter debate. Through this all, liberals will try to convince themselves more than us really how informed they are. It would all be funny, if they weren’t in charge, and their policies didn’t carry horrendous consequences.
Hat Tip: Osprey
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