Be careful about what you believe

[struggle4progress]

BY LEONARD PITTS

... Phillips' scheme was foiled when routine background checks turned up multiple lies, inconsistencies and red flags. Afterward, Post reporters tailed her to the offices of Project Veritas ...

... if this is funny – and it is – it's also revealing. These people actually project their scuzzy values and motivations onto the rest of us. Apparently and incredibly, these geniuses thought a responsible news organization would run that cockamamie story without checking the source or caring whether it was true. It likely made sense to them because it’s something they would have done ...

The thinking behind this campaign to delegitimize journalism could not be more transparent. As the far right has apparently concluded it cannot win elections without suppressing votes, it now seems to have decided it cannot win political debates without suppressing facts.

This is an attempted coup against reality itself. What Project Veritas and all the other merchants of mendacity seek is a world without memory, a world where all facts are always in controversy and nothing is ever truly knowable unless it serves their ideological ends. The people of such a world are manipulable. They believe what you tell them to. They are anchored by nothing ...

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/11/29/leonard-pitts-be-careful-about-what-you-hear-and-believe-or-you-may-not-be-living-in-reality/

[Moostache]

1. Here are the only accepted right wing "facts":

1) Tax cuts, good!...spending on people in need, bad!
2) GOP tax cuts ALWAYS pay for themselves....Democratic sponsored programs ALWAYS cost too much.
3) "Christian" is not a belief, its a brand
4) Sex is bad...if you're LBGTQ or a woman or a minority and you should be PUNISHED for it...
5) Sex is good...if you're a white male only...and doesn't matter how old the woman is, unless she is too old...

There might be more, but they are basically all corollaries or addendums to these...