Truth is False

When reality does not agree with their world view, Republicans simply claim that the truth is false.

Whack Job Alex Jones still claims that the Sandy Hook Massacre was staged which would be welcome news to the parents who lost their first graders there. “Here are your kids back. Sorry for the inconvenience.” The Parkland HS survivors who spoke at gun control rallies across the country were “all paid actors”. The Jan 6 riot was “legitimate political discourse”. “Hang Mike Pence” will go down in history along with “When in the course of human events…”

When the story broke about the 10 year old Ohio girl who had to go to Indiana to obtain an abortion, Republican response was predictable. Ohio’s Attorney General told Fox News that his office heard “not a whisper” about the case and “Every day that goes by makes it more likely that this is a fabrication.” The next day, police arrested an illegal alien who confessed to the rape. The A.G. changed his tune, “He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!” There was no mention of the “more likely fabrication”.

I’m surprised he didn’t resurrect Donnie’s classic line about “murderers and rapists and a few, I suppose, are good people flooding over the border from Mexico.”

Maybe the Ohio AG is running for reelection so he can make unsubstantiated claims that appeal to the GOP base. The Wall Street Journal has no excuse though. When Joe Biden brought up the Ohio girl’s case, the WSJ editorialized, “The abortion debate is intense and passions run high, but the American people deserve better from their President than an unproven story designed to aggravate those passions.”

Dear Wall Street Journal, you are NOT Alex Jones’ podcast. You are NOT Tucker Carlson. Leave the rabble-rousing to the professionals.

At least the WSJ had the journalistic integrity to update that editorial with a note on the rapist’s arrest.

Still, first impressions are strongest. No doubt the majority of WSJ readers would claim, “That Ohio 10 year old girl story is “unproven”. The Journal says so.”

By Ed Dufton