Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Yanno what chaps my hide?
aside from wet jeans....
Jeff Goldstein is right:
For several years, these people have been testing the water, trying to gauge the size of the lies they can get away with. Unsurprisingly, they’ve come to realize that, if they all simply insist on the “truthfulness” of a given lie of their own creation and marketing, that little piece of the greater war narrative will, with the help of a compliant media, slowly ossify into “fact”—or at the very least, will dig beneath the skin of settled history and fester there, constantly picked at by the conspiracy theorists and fantasists who stroke their own egos by pretending to know more than the surface reveals.
[It doesn’t chap me that Jeff is right—we’re all pretty much over that by now. It’s what he’s right about.]
What also chaps me is that the rational humans among us [regardless of party affiliation - if any] have not yet discovered a method of combating this practice. Whatinhell happened to The Enlightenment and the Age of Reason, anyway?
The particular kerfluffle that prompted Jeff’s overall statement is the “Chemical Weapons = White Phosphorus therefore America = Saddam” meme being pushed by the likes of Kos, Jon Stewart and, no doubt soon, Billary and Howie.
Rational explanations at Balloon Juice by Jason and more at his blog, Iraq Now/CounterColumn
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