{"id":30044,"date":"2011-08-16T20:27:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T02:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=30044"},"modified":"2012-02-20T22:41:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T05:41:46","slug":"lies-of-august-16-non-exhaustive-guest-post-by-motionview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=30044","title":{"rendered":"Lies of August 16, non exhaustive [guest post by motionview]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lies of Aug 16<\/a>, non-exhaustive.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got a number of members of my Cabinet who are here. All of them do outstanding work day in, day out. So I couldn\u2019t be prouder of them. First of all, this guy you should be a little familiar with because he used to be the governor of this great state — Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. (Applause.) Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. (Applause.) Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. (Applause.) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan. (Applause.) And the Small Business Administrator Karen Mills. (Applause.)<\/p>\n

This is a lie. Tom Vilsack is administering Pigford<\/a>. Have you ever thought about farming? Here’s your $50,000 (unless, well, you know). Ken Salazar administered the destruction of the Gulf oil and gas business<\/a> and is helping the statists lock up every actually usable energy source he can. Ray LaHood administered (well, ‘shoveled out the door<\/a>‘) the biggest chunk of the failed stimulus. They’re here to write Iowa checks with our money. (Possible reason not a lie but an unintended accidental truth- the worse the better, and for that this Brain Trust is outstanding.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve got small business owners here. We have farmers. We have ranchers, public servants, clean energy entrepreneurs and community organizations from all across rural America. And I\u2019m here because I want to hear from you, and my Cabinet wants to hear from you.<\/p>\n

This is a lie. Barack Obama is here campaigning on our dime. The Won does not need to hear from the likes of you. He is here repackaging funds Congress has already appropriated, gushing money towards his allies and potential voters. Note the shout-out to rural community organizations. As if an Iowa farmer needs ACORN to learn how to tax-farm.<\/em><\/p>\n

But we could do even more if Congress is willing to get in the game. There are bipartisan ideas -\u2013 common-sense ideas \u2013- that have traditionally been supported by Democrats and Republicans that will put more money in your pockets, that will put our people to work, that will allow us to deal with the legacy of debt that hangs over our economy.<\/p>\n

Some of these are so artfully crafted that it’s dififcult to separate and delineate all of the individual lies. Because it is also somewhat innocuous sounding, this is the kind of lie that will be repeated endlessly as the campaign goes on, until it is no longer even heard by the MBM, but is deeply internalized. There is<\/em><\/p>\n