Tackling Five Modern Myths Created by Liberals
By John Hawkins
In recent years, liberals have mastered the art of lying. A lefty blog writes a story, then two dozen other blogs pick-up. Next thing you know, the libs in the mainstream media are echoing the charges that started in the blogosphere without mentioning that they’re false.
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Then, a few months later, after the lies have been repeated ad nauseum, even conservatives who are uninformed may start to mistake the untrue charges for the truth. That’s why these modern liberal myths, like the ones you are about to read, need to be countered with the truth.
George Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq:
This is actually one of the most easily disproved myths because after looking at the same intelligence George Bush was given, many prominent Democrats said almost the exact things Bush did about Iraq’s WMDs.[...]
Al Gore would have won the election in 2000 if all the votes had been counted:
The problem with this assertion is that all the votes were counted after the fact—by mainstream media organizations that are hostile to the Bush Administration. What was their conclusion? That George Bush would have won had the unconstitutional full recount been allowed to go forward.[...]
George Bush’s “16 Words” in the 2003 State of the Union were a lie:
This was the statement which led to the Valerie Plame scandal. It was as follows:“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
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However, the British Government did believe Saddam Hussein had “sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,” and moreover, a “separate report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee said...that the US also had similar information from ‘a number of intelligence reports.’” In addition, the British Butler report concluded that Iraq did try to buy uranium in Nigeria in 1999 and that George Bush’s 16 words were “well-founded.”
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Bush made 9/11 happen on purpose or let it happen on purpose:
This loony conspiracy theory has been floating around for years despite the fact that,“The 9/11 attacks, or at least parts of those attacks, have been investigated by the 9/11 commission, the CIA, FBI, FAA, FEMA, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Popular Mechanics, and countless mainstream newspapers—among other sources.”
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There is a consensus on man-made global warming:
Because the global warming alarmists can’t give a good answer to many of the most basic questions that people have, they’ve simply been claiming that almost every scientist believes they’re right. The idea here is that people will think, “They may not be able to make a case for what they believe, but if all those scientists agree with them, they must be spot-on!”However, while there is a consensus that the earth warmed a small amount over the last century, there is no consensus on whether mankind is responsible, whether the warming will continue, and whether the consequences will be serious if it does. In fact, more than 31,000 American scientists have signed a petition stating the following:
“We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”
Maybe you agree with that or maybe you don’t, but what should be beyond dispute at this point is that there is certainly no scientific consensus on global warming.
Read the whole thing; it thoroughly refutes these leftie lies. The list of leftie lies is much longer than this, of course.
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