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9/10/04 "The Truth Will Bury You" The truth will set you free, if you rely on truth. If you rely on distortions and lies, the truth will bury you. Democrats never tire of squandering their credibility defending the indefensible and attacking the innocent. They claimed it was a right-wing conspiracy that almost brought down the Clinton presidency. They claimed for month after month unanimously that none of the accusations about Monica Lewinsky were true. They were all true. And there was no conspiracy. And for years they've been claiming Bush routinely lies, and they have yet to expose a single lie. But they keep saying it, and most of the press doesn't question it. Every time there is a witness or a document that disputes something Kerry has said, the New York Times pulls out the magnifying glass to try to find some evidence somewhere that will defend the truth of what Kerry has said. And every time there is a witness or a document that disputes something Bush has said, they splash the allegation on the front page, and when it turns out to be completely false, they bury the correction in the pages no one reads. Now CBS News' 60 Minutes has fallen into the trap. They put out documents on Sunday purporting to prove that George W. Bush was guilty of insubordination during his service in the Texas Air National Guard. These are the straws at which Democrats are eager to grasp as their favorite war hero struggles to evade the obvious conclusion that he can't go a day in his life without changing his mind about the fundamental issues of our day. So Sen. Tom Harkin goes around accusing the President of lying (as if there was something new in such an allegation) on the basis of the documents produced by CBS News. And Terry McAuliffe adds that to the list of faux falsehoods he trots out every time the media come out to fawn over him. But the problem is that there are now several strong indications that those documents are forgeries. Officers who worked in the Guard at the time say no such documents would ever have been created. They use fonts that probably didn't exist on military bases in 1971. The man who supposedly wrote them wouldn't have written them, according to his family. (It goes without saying that the man who supposedly wrote them is now dead. It reminds Soothseeker of the phantom notes that Marc Antony kept pulling out of Caesar's papers after his death, coincidentally always conferring favors on friends of Antony.) Another memo mentions a general Staudt who was supposedly pressuring the chain of command to "sugar coat" Bush's record. This is a general who had apparently retired by the time the memo was written, and thus would have had no real authority to pressure anyone. In other words, someone has bamboozled the willing liberals of CBS News into squandering their authority on a set of forgeries designed to skew the outcome of an election. They don't bother being skeptical or checking facts when the apparent facts fit their aspirations. And these are days when the truth can do an end run around the self-appointed guardians of truth. People like you and me can check things for ourselves, and there are news outlets that are not inclined to give a pass to liberal lies and let go the empty accusations constantly launched against conservatives. I suspect that finally we've reached a critical mass of obvious Democratic lies. In the near future, almost no one other than a Democrat will believe a Democrat when he says someone else is lying, and CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and NBC's Today Show (among so many others) will be recognized as satellites of the dissembling Democratic National Committee and people will start doubting everything they say that sounds like an attack on George W. Bush. The truth will bury them. Modified: 09/15/2004 |
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