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I hammer some more
A follow-up on the Yahoo election thread.
Re: Well done, Walter!
One popular way to cope when the truth is against you is to spread as much confusion as possible. Then when someone points out the facts, you can throw up a protective layer of BS, point to all the resulting confusion, and say "Look at all the different interpretations! Who knows what the truth is?"
The implication being, of course, that there IS no such thing as truth - it's all relative. Which is somehow supposed to validate lying.
It's particularly amusing that Republicans resort to this tactic so often, because it's the very antithesis of the moral rectitude that they pretend to uphold. Oh yeah, they love to scream on and on about how liberals have no values. But when it comes to an inconvenient truth, suddenly not only does the truth turn into lies - there is no such THING as the truth! How convenient. How hypocritical. How...typical of the modern GOP.
The truth in this case is that in the Florida election, some ballots were discarded which were overvotes. That is, the voter both checked off the name of the candidate, AND wrote in that same name. The intent of the voter was clear on those ballots, and both Florida and Federal law require that they be counted. But they weren't.
If they had been, though, Al Gore would have clearly won Florida and the Presidency, although I suppose that the GOP and the foresworn Republicans on the Supreme Court would have found a way to steal the election anyway.
Re: Well done, Walter!
One popular way to cope when the truth is against you is to spread as much confusion as possible. Then when someone points out the facts, you can throw up a protective layer of BS, point to all the resulting confusion, and say "Look at all the different interpretations! Who knows what the truth is?"
The implication being, of course, that there IS no such thing as truth - it's all relative. Which is somehow supposed to validate lying.
It's particularly amusing that Republicans resort to this tactic so often, because it's the very antithesis of the moral rectitude that they pretend to uphold. Oh yeah, they love to scream on and on about how liberals have no values. But when it comes to an inconvenient truth, suddenly not only does the truth turn into lies - there is no such THING as the truth! How convenient. How hypocritical. How...typical of the modern GOP.
The truth in this case is that in the Florida election, some ballots were discarded which were overvotes. That is, the voter both checked off the name of the candidate, AND wrote in that same name. The intent of the voter was clear on those ballots, and both Florida and Federal law require that they be counted. But they weren't.
If they had been, though, Al Gore would have clearly won Florida and the Presidency, although I suppose that the GOP and the foresworn Republicans on the Supreme Court would have found a way to steal the election anyway.
Actually...
Here's a lovely bit of information: the Florida law regarding votes which should be counted.