{"id":237,"date":"2008-07-29T20:42:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T03:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/237"},"modified":"2008-07-29T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T04:46:18","slug":"mcliar-liar-pants-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/mcliar-liar-pants-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"McLiar, liar pants on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I kept hoping against hope that Karl Rove wouldn&#8217;t play a part in the current election year.\u00c2\u00a0 He is <strong>evil incarnate<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 He is the antichrist.\u00c2\u00a0 He is a vile creature that should be doomed to eternal torment in unimagineable ways.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe <em class=\"b\">you <\/em>can imagine them &#8211; if so share some ideas with me <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greyhavens.org\/myfamily\/smiley.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mccain_bush_hug_300.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"McCain - like Bush, only older and angier.\" class=\"floatleft\" \/>But I digress.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, John McCain has hired Steve Schmidt, a disciple of Karl Rove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s who worked on George W. Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2004 ads.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 He is using the Rove playbook that says that it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter if something is true as long as your target audience won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother to find out the actual truth, and believe that it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sounds like it might be a true.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a\u00c2\u00a0tactic similar to one employed by the nutcase Sean Hannity.\u00c2\u00a0 He relentlessly repeats falsehoods day after day,\u00c2\u00a0unchallenged by his co-host or call listeners.\u00c2\u00a0 Those lies become embedded in the media (and his audience).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Hannity could use some eternal torture as well.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently,\u00c2\u00a0in his desperation, <em class=\"b\">John McCain forgot his promise to run a clean campaign<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Here are a couple of recent doozies.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new McCain TV ad falsely insinuates that Obama canceled his visit to wounded troops in Germany because &#8220;the Pentagon wouldn&#8217;t allow him to bring cameras.&#8221; (untrue)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But even if HAD visited the troops McCain had another ad (lie) ready claiming Obama used the visit\/troops for political\u00c2\u00a0gain.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<a target=\"resource window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/elections-2008\/snubbing_wounded_troops.html\">Here&#8217;s what FactCheck.org has to say.<\/a><br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In another recent ad, he&#8217;s claiming Obama is\u00c2\u00a0the guy to thank for the high price of gasoline.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/elections-2008\/a_full_tank_of_nonsense.html\">Complete\u00c2\u00a0nonsense, according to FactCheck.org<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And here is what <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/oped\/2008\/07\/our-view-on-cam.html?loc=interstitialskip\">USA Today editorial board <\/a>had to say about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry, but if you believe the crap in these ads, you are as big an idiot as McCain&#8217;s team takes you for.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kept hoping against hope that Karl Rove wouldn&#8217;t play a part in the current election year.\u00c2\u00a0 He is evil incarnate.\u00c2\u00a0 He is the antichrist.\u00c2\u00a0 He is a vile creature that should be doomed to eternal torment in unimagineable ways.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe you can imagine them &#8211; if so share some ideas with me But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/mcliar-liar-pants-on-fire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McLiar, liar pants on fire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}