Last Sunday, after reading noted GOPer apologist Jason Lewis' latest rant in the Star Tribune, I posted "Who Is The Whiny 9 Year Old Here?" In it, I wrote: "I'd fact-check Jason, but what's the point? It's not like pointing out (once again) that Reagan said "facts are stupid things" and GOPers live it will really change their deceitful ways."
Well, yesterday - over at MinnPost - Eric Black took a look at Lewis' rant, too - in a post entitled "Jason Lewis' wrong and exaggerated arguments about freedom". And it's well worth the read -- so go read it! Here's a teaser:
Everything the right likes can be phrased as a form of “freedom,” as in freedom of the rich from paying higher taxes, freedom of corporations from government regulation, freedom to pollute, freedom of those with almost unlimited resources to use those resources to influence elections, freedom of the wealthiest 1 percent to accumulate any damn portion of the society’s wealth and income without shame, freedom to overthrow foreign governments (but only in order to bring freedom to the oppressed of those nations) and a few other important freedoms that you can think of on your own.
(more, here)
One area Eric Black pokes a big hole in Lewis' rant is the wingnut right's fixation on "the Founders" and their alleged anti-tax views. Again, Reagan said "Facts are stupid things" and wingnuts like Lewis prove it on a regular basis. That's why I stuck that picture of ol' Ben Franklin and that quote up there - ripping "money manipulators". OK, that quote was probably misattributed to ol' Ben. Be that as it may, Ben was a wise man indeed and - IMNSHO - would be standing with today's Occupy Wall Street protestors; protesting today's dishonest monetary system.
Eric blows a hole in Lewis' misuse of Federalist #21. I like the following quote from the second paragraph of Federalist #2:
"Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers." -- Publius (John Jay), October 31st, 1787
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Only a fool would believe what GOPers say - and what their apologists, like Jason Lewis and Katherine Kersten, write.
Noted GOPer apologist Jason Lewis is simply an example of: "You Couldn't Trust The GOP Then, You Still Can't Now, And Tomorrow Won't Be Any Different."