BCT Editorial – 8/12/08

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Liar, liar; Editorial; Beaver County Times; August 12, 2008.

The editorial subtitle is “Most e-mails about Obama have little regard for the truth.”

The second sentence of the editorial tells us, “The lies speak volumes about the moral bankruptcy of the right wing and its vengeful, win-at-all costs mentality.” The editorial then goes on to tell us how Snopes.com and PolitiFact.com evaluated a bunch of e-mail notes and found most were false. (As a side note, less than a week before, the editorial “Gresham’s law” told us not to trust what we read on the Internet. And what’s the data source for this editorial?)

The editorial, however, failed to mention all the “pants on fire,” “barely true,” and “half true” e-mails about Clinton/Obama originated and were first sent (from September 2007 through mid-May 2008) during the Democrat primary campaign. Not one originated after Mr. Obama apparently clinched the Democrat nomination in early June. Of the 15 “false” e-mails about Clinton/Obama, 10 originated and were first sent during the Democrat primary. Check the PolitiFact.com website and see for yourself.

Also, let’s remember lefties (primarily Clinton supporters) during the Democrat primary campaign opined Mr. Obama might have dealt drugs as a youth (He didn’t.), was a Muslim (He wasn’t, not that it matters.), and couldn’t win because of skin color (Ed Rendell).

Who wrote the e-mail notes? I don’t know, though given most of their origination dates it’s logical to assume most if not all were written by Obama opponents on the left.

Answering the editorial’s question, yes, I noticed a trend. It looks like this editorial is trying to blame the right for what the left did.