I’m not the only one writing about how aptly truthiness captures the current political landscape. In his new column “Truthiness Stages a Comeback” Frank Rich excoriates the McCain-Palin campaign for its deceptive, ad hominem campaign tactics:
A Rovian political strategy by definition means all slime, all the time. The more crucial Rove game plan is to [...]
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Truthiness Redux
Posted in Politics, tagged Election 2008, Frank Rich, George Bush, Helen Thomas, John McCain, Karl Rove, Keating Five, lies, McCain-Palin, NYtimes, Politics, Sarah Palin, Stephen Colbert, truthiness on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lie, Lie, Lie = Truth
Posted in Politics, tagged bridge to nowhere, Election 2008, Farhad Manjoo, John McCain, Katherine Q Seelye, lies, McCain-Palin, NYtimes, Politics, Sarah Palin, Slate.com on September 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quite a few liberals keep asking themselves how the McCain-Palin duo is getting away with it. They repeat several blatant lies (Palin’s opposing the bridge to nowhere, Obama raising taxes on the middle class, Palin rejecting earmarks, Obama voting for sex education for kindergartners, so forth and so on) despite the fact that numerous factchecking [...]
