Monday, May 24, 2010

The Lies Keep On Coming From Republicans


Ever since President Obama took the oath of office, the Republicans have been telling lies about his administration to anyone who will listen. They have called him a "socialist" who promotes a government takeover of our lives, said he wants to outlaw gun ownership, and even accused him of trying to institute a ban on sport fishing. Of course, none of these things are even close to being true, but facts don't seem to mean much to Republicans these days.

One of the most popular lies is that the Obama administration is in cahoots with illegal immigrants and he doesn't want to do anything to protect our borders and stop undocumented workers from entering the country -- or take any action to deport those who are already here. This bit of propaganda is especially popular with that portion of the Republican base known as teabaggers. Republican apologist and Fox News pundit Bill Kristol recently repeated the lie again.

Kristol recently said on Fox News, "The Obama administration is full of people who are at best actually reluctant to enforce the laws on the book -- using the excuse that we can't enforce anything until we have comprehensive immigration reform." Kristol is in a position to know the truth, but the truth would defeat the purpose of the propaganda he is trying to spread.

All one has to do to know this is a blatant lie is look at the DHS's immigration statistics (see the above chart). These statistics show that the Obama administration has and is currently deporting more illegal immigrants than Republican George Bush's administration did in any of his eight years in office. And the current number of deportations is twice the number of the Bush administration in any of his first four years in office.

It's not that hard to expose the Republican lies, such as this one about immigration. But they tell so many lies so quickly, that it is hard to keep up with all of them.

2 comments:

  1. Now President Obama Stands against the Bush.. thank god he got up.

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  2. The right-wing technique is what we called "crapflooding" back during USENET days. The crapflooder's goal was to post so much garbage in the newsgroup as to render it unusable, because you could not find the actual content amongst all the crap.

    Similarly, the goal with the right-wingers is to flood the public discourse with so much crap that people can't discover the pearls of truth buried underneath the piles of reeking feces. If you try to shovel the crap aside so people can find the truth hidden by the crap -- i.e., debunk it -- they simply dispatch their hoards of flying monkeys to rain yet more piles of reeking feces upon the public discourse, rendering it a Sisyphean task.

    Which reminds me of my theory about why socialism took hold in Europe but never took hold in America, which is all about the 1st Amendment and its guarantee of "freedom of the press" (i.e., freedom for corporate interests to poison the public well with their lies without any recourse on the part of We The People) and how it's actually a cruel joke played upon the American people by our oligarchic owners. But that's a topic for another post... needless to say, my thesis is that this crapflooding was deliberately written into the Constitution by our owners, i.e., it's a feature, not a bug, of the system. More later :).

    - Badtux the Crapflood Penguin

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