The Left Is Making Up Events In The News To Create Symbolic Issues That Fit Their Agenda

[NYcarbineer]

NASCAR has now come out against the Indiana law...

...blame that on liberals, lol.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The right contrives lies and straw man fallacies to advance their agenda, this thread being one of many examples

here is a great one about restaurants closing in Seattle due to the mandatory minimum wage increase and it is a current topic and thread. Such a big lie and fake story that the pro business conservative publication FORBES produced an article about it calling it the "Anatomy of a Lie".

what Article in Forbes this one?
Proof Perfect That The Minimum Wage Costs Jobs - Forbes

Btw I have had a Subscription to forbes since the 80s

No, this one. The one you posted is an opinion commentary.

forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/03/22/minimum-wage-increase-killing-seattle-restaurants-anatomy-of-a-lie-from-inside-the-bubble/

A very real problem we see here every day is the inability of RWs to tell the difference between an op/ed and a factual article.

That's why they believe every lie they get from Fox -- even though they KNOW they are being lied to.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

NASCAR has now come out against the Indiana law...

...blame that on liberals, lol.

And Walmart! Who'd-a thunk it?

I'm totally confused about what has been posted in all these threads about this but I just posted this elsewhere -

I have been encouraged by the number of Americans who are refusing to let the ignorant bigots turn the country into a huge Westoro baptist church.

Most people believe in our Constitution, in equality and in the principles this country was founded on.

 

[Roadrunner]

Everyone is familiar with "Hands Up, Don't Shoot". We found out the whole thing was made up by lying journalists, perpetrated by a tax-cheat, Al Sharpton, and encouraged and prodded along by a dishonest president.
The left and Democrats don't need real events anymore. They can just make em up when needed. There are enough people out there that have bought into their alternate universe..... and so every new lie becomes just a reaffirmation of what they all believe is going on......regardless of the fact it was all made up in the first place.


Why the Rolling Stone gang-rape story will never be labeled a hoax WashingtonExaminer.com

By now it's clear that the brutal gang rape reported last November in Rolling Stone did not occur. I write that, knowing full well the backlash I could receive from not adding the caveat that something could still have happened to Jackie, the accuser in the story.

Activists have clung to the idea that something probably did happen to make a young woman tell a tale of a brutal gang rape and become a campus activist to keep the hoax claims isolated to a small subset. These same activists bent over backwards following the Charlottesville Police press conference last week to claim that Jackie probably wasn't lying, because such a false accusation "flies in the face of statistics," as one CNN panelist said. Of course, the statistic that only 2 percent of reported rapes are false – doubtful anyway – only applies to rapes actually reported to police, which this one was not.


But in any event, the faint possibility that Jackie may have suffered some other horrific event is not the reason this story will not be labeled a hoax by activists or most in the mainstream media.

No, the reason it will not be labeled a hoax comes from an anonymous McGill University student, using the pseudonym Aurora Dagny, who wrote last year that dogmatism is in part to blame for activists' refusal to accept evidence contrary to their worldview.

"One way to define the difference between a regular belief and a sacred belief is that people who hold sacred beliefs think it is morally wrong for anyone to question those beliefs," Dagny wrote. "If someone does question those beliefs, they're not just being stupid or even depraved, they're actively doing violence. They might as well be kicking a puppy. When people hold sacred beliefs, there is no disagreement without animosity."

Because the activists behind the Rolling Stone story hold a "sacred belief" that thousands, perhaps even millions, of college students are sexually assaulted each year, any evidence to the contrary is seen as detrimental to the cause.

It's why Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., was able to continue calling Jackie a "victim" of a crime for which there is no proof. It's why the University of Virginia's president, Teresa Sullivan, and those responsible for vandalizing the fraternity named in the Rolling Stone article have not had to apologize for their rush to judgment.


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Here's the fake story from Rolling Stone - A Rape on Campus A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA Rolling Stone

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And the right continues to take the bait, hook, line and sinker, to the gut, fatally.

 

[Roadrunner]

Hands up MODS ...

do your job and merge all these threads that are robbing the board ... multiple threads/same topic are no-no's

Apparently they are not listening to requests for a major thread merge.

 

[mudwhistle]

Everyone is familiar with "Hands Up, Don't Shoot". We found out the whole thing was made up by lying journalists, perpetrated by a tax-cheat, Al Sharpton, and encouraged and prodded along by a dishonest president.
The left and Democrats don't need real events anymore. They can just make em up when needed. There are enough people out there that have bought into their alternate universe..... and so every new lie becomes just a reaffirmation of what they all believe is going on......regardless of the fact it was all made up in the first place.


Why the Rolling Stone gang-rape story will never be labeled a hoax WashingtonExaminer.com

By now it's clear that the brutal gang rape reported last November in Rolling Stone did not occur. I write that, knowing full well the backlash I could receive from not adding the caveat that something could still have happened to Jackie, the accuser in the story.

Activists have clung to the idea that something probably did happen to make a young woman tell a tale of a brutal gang rape and become a campus activist to keep the hoax claims isolated to a small subset. These same activists bent over backwards following the Charlottesville Police press conference last week to claim that Jackie probably wasn't lying, because such a false accusation "flies in the face of statistics," as one CNN panelist said. Of course, the statistic that only 2 percent of reported rapes are false – doubtful anyway – only applies to rapes actually reported to police, which this one was not.


But in any event, the faint possibility that Jackie may have suffered some other horrific event is not the reason this story will not be labeled a hoax by activists or most in the mainstream media.

No, the reason it will not be labeled a hoax comes from an anonymous McGill University student, using the pseudonym Aurora Dagny, who wrote last year that dogmatism is in part to blame for activists' refusal to accept evidence contrary to their worldview.

"One way to define the difference between a regular belief and a sacred belief is that people who hold sacred beliefs think it is morally wrong for anyone to question those beliefs," Dagny wrote. "If someone does question those beliefs, they're not just being stupid or even depraved, they're actively doing violence. They might as well be kicking a puppy. When people hold sacred beliefs, there is no disagreement without animosity."

Because the activists behind the Rolling Stone story hold a "sacred belief" that thousands, perhaps even millions, of college students are sexually assaulted each year, any evidence to the contrary is seen as detrimental to the cause.

It's why Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., was able to continue calling Jackie a "victim" of a crime for which there is no proof. It's why the University of Virginia's president, Teresa Sullivan, and those responsible for vandalizing the fraternity named in the Rolling Stone article have not had to apologize for their rush to judgment.


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Here's the fake story from Rolling Stone - A Rape on Campus A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA Rolling Stone

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And the right continues to take the bait, hook, line and sinker, to the gut, fatally.

Death-threats and lawsuits tend to get your attention....

 

[mudwhistle]

The right contrives lies and straw man fallacies to advance their agenda, this thread being one of many examples

here is a great one about restaurants closing in Seattle due to the mandatory minimum wage increase and it is a current topic and thread. Such a big lie and fake story that the pro business conservative publication FORBES produced an article about it calling it the "Anatomy of a Lie".

what Article in Forbes this one?
Proof Perfect That The Minimum Wage Costs Jobs - Forbes

Btw I have had a Subscription to forbes since the 80s

No, this one. The one you posted is an opinion commentary.

forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/03/22/minimum-wage-increase-killing-seattle-restaurants-anatomy-of-a-lie-from-inside-the-bubble/

A very real problem we see here every day is the inability of RWs to tell the difference between an op/ed and a factual article.

That's why they believe every lie they get from Fox -- even though they KNOW they are being lied to.

I think you made it clear on another thread that even when you know, it doesn't matter. Why you feel you have any right to accuse others of the same habit is beyond me.

 

[Ame®icano]

To sum it all up; Liberals and progressives will only believe what fits inside their ideological beliefs. Anything that doesn't fit isn't believable to them. It's like the simple fact that most blacks feel that white cops are suspicious of them (for good reason) and why gays feel that straight folks, and particularly Christians, think they are perverts. This is what Democrats are trying to take advantage of. Their innate prejudices and bigotry of specific groups. These folks are much more easily misled that others.

By the time the story is proven fake, it's already "old news". Meanwhile, all who challenged the story were labeled as racists, rapists and bigots.

 

[kaz]

Making it up to drive an agenda you say? Like Jeremiah Wright, ACORN, the "Knockout Game", Henry Louis Gates, Shirley Sherrod, Van Jones and "Hip Hop Barbecues"?

Oh wait, that's Fox Noise...

Hearing two sides of an issue is just scary to you. The media didn't put up that crap when you were still in it. It was your job to do the thinking for the public to save us time and make sure we don't end up on the wrong side on issues. Republicans and Democrats? Both saying their views? Both being seen? What a bunch of noise that is

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The right contrives lies and straw man fallacies to advance their agenda, this thread being one of many examples

So who contrived what,hands up don't shoot,was false,the gang rape was also.
Keeping in form,you attack the messenger,but reject the truth,thanks for reinforcing the OP,good job.

This is what you get for getting your news from Fox.

Here are the facts of "hands up don't shoot" and (Republican generated) Benghazi but I'll bet RWs will refuse to watch it because they prefer their lies to the truth.

Jon Stewart calls out Fox News for a double standard in covering Ferguson and Benghazi - The Washington Post

 

[Wyatt earp]

The right contrives lies and straw man fallacies to advance their agenda, this thread being one of many examples

here is a great one about restaurants closing in Seattle due to the mandatory minimum wage increase and it is a current topic and thread. Such a big lie and fake story that the pro business conservative publication FORBES produced an article about it calling it the "Anatomy of a Lie".

what Article in Forbes this one?
Proof Perfect That The Minimum Wage Costs Jobs - Forbes

Btw I have had a Subscription to forbes since the 80s

No, this one. The one you posted is an opinion commentary.

forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/03/22/minimum-wage-increase-killing-seattle-restaurants-anatomy-of-a-lie-from-inside-the-bubble/

That's also a opinion piece, because we will never know till 2018? Until the full law comes into effect, but common sense and looking at history of places like Detroit says my link is correct

 

[mudwhistle]

Hands up MODS ...

do your job and merge all these threads that are robbing the board ... multiple threads/same topic are no-no's

Why don't you report it?

and be a chickenshit like you ?

naaaaaah, I'll pass.

Then quit whining and contribute or get lost.

 

[The Rabbi]

The right contrives lies and straw man fallacies to advance their agenda, this thread being one of many examples

here is a great one about restaurants closing in Seattle due to the mandatory minimum wage increase and it is a current topic and thread. Such a big lie and fake story that the pro business conservative publication FORBES produced an article about it calling it the "Anatomy of a Lie".

what Article in Forbes this one?
Proof Perfect That The Minimum Wage Costs Jobs - Forbes

Btw I have had a Subscription to forbes since the 80s

No, this one. The one you posted is an opinion commentary.

forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/03/22/minimum-wage-increase-killing-seattle-restaurants-anatomy-of-a-lie-from-inside-the-bubble/

You understand that's not an article, right?

The creation of stories to confirm and inflame is nothing new. Sharpton got his fame from the Tawana Brawley fraud over 30 years ago.
The funny thing is even when things are disproven conclusively belief in them lives on. Thus the link between autism and vaccines was thoroughly discredited. The author of the study admitted he made it up. But many people still think there is such a thing. Some people still believe Tawana Brawley was raped by white officials. And many people obviously believe Obama is doing a good job, despite ample evidence to the contrary. Moral: People are stupid.

 

[Wildman]

regardless of the fact it was all made up in the first place.

isn't that what they all do all the time ? right here on USMB is a really great example.

 

[Wildman]

Liberals and progressives will only believe what fits inside their ideological beliefs.

will only believe what fits inside their tiny minuscule brain, to be exact, their brain is almost the size of an Earthworm !

 

[kaz]

The right contrives lies and straw man fallacies to advance their agenda, this thread being one of many examples

So who contrived what,hands up don't shoot,was false,the gang rape was also.
Keeping in form,you attack the messenger,but reject the truth,thanks for reinforcing the OP,good job.

This is what you get for getting your news from Fox.

Here are the facts of "hands up don't shoot" and (Republican generated) Benghazi but I'll bet RWs will refuse to watch it because they prefer their lies to the truth.

Jon Stewart calls out Fox News for a double standard in covering Ferguson and Benghazi - The Washington Post

Using a comedian as your source, LOL. Loved the segment. First because wow, Megan is hot and any chance to see her... And second, Jon leans left, but he mercilessly goes after both sides and isn't monolithic only going after Republicans like most liberals. I respect him.

However, in this case, in his ... comedy ... description of the news, he left out a few things:

1) On Ferguson, the first report said this cop did nothing wrong, the second talked about general police practices. Fox was nailing the hate filled leftists like Obama and Sharpton for stoking racial hatred flames without learning any facts first, just knee jerk believing an accusation. That is what Fox was going after them for. The second report didn't contradict that. Fox was right.

2) The race pimps like Obama and Sharpton instigated more violence, again what Fox was going after them for. Republicans didn't instigate any violence over Benghazi

3) The leftist model (only for leftists) is that all is good in Benghazi because the final report didn't find the Obama administration did most of the accusations. However, the Obama administration was guilty of the most serious charge. Covering it up and impeding the investigation. Something the left used to drive Nixon out of office. With Obama in your typical hypocrisy, all is good...

 

[Camp]

The right contrives lies and straw man fallacies to advance their agenda, this thread being one of many examples

here is a great one about restaurants closing in Seattle due to the mandatory minimum wage increase and it is a current topic and thread. Such a big lie and fake story that the pro business conservative publication FORBES produced an article about it calling it the "Anatomy of a Lie".

what Article in Forbes this one?
Proof Perfect That The Minimum Wage Costs Jobs - Forbes

Btw I have had a Subscription to forbes since the 80s

No, this one. The one you posted is an opinion commentary.

forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/03/22/minimum-wage-increase-killing-seattle-restaurants-anatomy-of-a-lie-from-inside-the-bubble/

That's also a opinion piece, because we will never know till 2018? Until the full law comes into effect, but common sense and looking at history of places like Detroit says my link is correct

The article gives a detailed line of events that led a fraudulent blogg piece of total lies through the process of becoming a mainstream lie. It showed how a totally false story could end being broadcast of the Rush show to a national audience and even portrayed as credible on FOX News after it had been exposed as a total farce. The story claimed restaurants in Seattle were closing do to the raise of minimum wage to 15.00 per hour. Not a single restaurant was closed and the minimum wage is Seattle was only being raised from 9.47, the state minimum, to 9.50, the new city minimum. Your excuse response is to claim that the fraudulent piece is irrelevant because it reinforces your opinion on the topic. Hey, look at Detroit, that is proof the idea behind the lies are right and therefore justified.

 

[tinydancer]

What I find more disturbing than the lies is that when the lie is disproven as in Zimmerman racially profiled (thanks NBC). stalked and murdered Trayvon

OR Michael Brown "Hands up don't shoot" )thanks Uncle Al the race baiters pal.

OR the rape on a campus bullshit story published by Rolling Stone

OR this LGBT flat out lie that this RFRA legislation was designed to allow discrimination of the LGBT community

the bloody mother truckers on the left don't care that they lied. And they continue to lie about the issue.

And worse yet you have them PROUD that they've lied like that bastard Harry Reid thrilled to death that his lie was part of the process to defeat Romney.

 

[defcon4]

Here are the facts of "hands up don't shoot" and (Republican generated) Benghazi but I'll bet RWs will refuse to watch it because they prefer their lies to the truth.

Jon Stewart, huh..? Now that's a reliable source. He has an army of investigative reporters employed by his news network. Oh.. wait a minute, he doesn't have a news network, he gets his news from MSNBC. Oh well, it doesn't matter when you are a leftist.

 

[mudwhistle]

The right contrives lies and straw man fallacies to advance their agenda, this thread being one of many examples

So who contrived what,hands up don't shoot,was false,the gang rape was also.
Keeping in form,you attack the messenger,but reject the truth,thanks for reinforcing the OP,good job.

This is what you get for getting your news from Fox.

Here are the facts of "hands up don't shoot" and (Republican generated) Benghazi but I'll bet RWs will refuse to watch it because they prefer their lies to the truth.

Jon Stewart calls out Fox News for a double standard in covering Ferguson and Benghazi - The Washington Post

So Stewart defends one lie with another lie?

Is that the best he can do?

No wonder he's leaving.....