10 More GOP Myths For The Media To Debunk

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Jon Perr at perrspectives.com has this excellent post taking the media villagers in the "lamestream media" for being complicit in advancing the "big lies" of the right-wing noise machine. After Birthers: 10 More GOP Myths Debunked:

Two statements this month sum up everything you need know about the sad state of American politics and media. Just days after Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl declared his 30 fold error about Planned Parenthood was "not intended to be a factual statement," President Obama decried the "silliness" over his place of birth.

But lost in the laughter over Kyl's unintended moment of candor and the sad spectacle of the President of the United States being forced to reconfirm his U.S. citizenship is this: almost every conservative talking point is not intended to be a factual statement. From President Obama's birthplace and "tax cuts that pay for themselves" to death panels, a government takeover of health care and so much other mythmaking, virtually every article of conservative faith is a fraud. Yet the Republican Party is neither scorned not laughed off the national stage but instead, aided by a complicit media desperate for entertainment value and ratings, is rewarded with power.

While some Americans will nevertheless continue to persist in their Birther fantasies, it is not too late for the media to perform its penance by debunking (or more accurately, redebunking) these 10 GOP myths:

1. "Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves."
2. "The Estate Tax Destroys Family Farms and Small Businesses."
3. "Death Panels."
4. "A Government Takeover of Health Care."
5. "No American is Denied Health Care."
6. "The Health Care Law Adds to the Deficit."
7. "Barack Obama is a Muslim."
8. "Public Employees Are Overpaid."
9. "We Went to War [with Iraq] Because We Were Attacked."
10. "Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy."

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