I didn't vote for Schwartzenegger and am not generally enamored of him...but for today Arnold is once again a hero!! The Ex-terminator is back in action; not with a fusilade of bullets, but with simple straight forward words of truth.
On ABC's This Week, Arnold spoke truth about his party: he spoke truth about the Republican lying hypocrisy that seems so pervasive of late.
Countering lies and propaganda with truth is not often found in our not-so-liberal, corporate media these days. Instead they are wont to repeat the lies cum propaganda with a he said-she said scenario minus any corrections or references as to its validity. (Note that repetition is one tool used to transmit propaganda/imprint memes in our brains)
So any truth speakers or truth seekers out there must become our heros, if only for the nonce.
Think Progess elaborates on Arnold today:
SCHWARZENEGGER: I find it interesting that you have a lot of the Republicans running around pushing back on the stimulus money and saying this doesn’t create any new jobs. Then they go out and they do the photo ops and they’re posing with the big check and they say, "Isn’t this great?"
Schwarzenegger then railed against his GOP colleagues for playing politics with the stimulus bill and attacked them for claiming it didn’t create jobs: