Posted by
VBushmills on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 7:17:14 AM
Richmond, 16 September
First we have to make government's affairs (sic) public once again, then stop it lying about its affairs.
Why is Joe Wilson's bad manners and not President Obama's lies not the story?
Bernie Chumm has been working on a manual for some time about publicly debating public liars. This is to be a book for public officials, at least public officials with courage, and the press. It details how, without violating the various congressional codes of conduct, public officials can call out other public officials who lie. It details how media interviewers can trap officials, especially in that radio/phone call interview, when they lie. (And vice versa, just in case you want to lay into Bill Maher someday. The easiest way to get a fellow is when is trying to play "gotcha" with you. All you have to do is have the facts in your hands (that is the side that should always win) and be willing to go to the mat with those facts (that is the reason the factual side seems always to lose).
Make the lie the story. When a person lies, stop the debate, conversation, whatever, and make the rest of the conversation about that person and the lie. Make them prove their assertion. Since they obviously can't in that venue, promise to schedule a free, open air debate later on...soon...three, four days tops...but get a date certain.
What you have done (and which politicians and pundits alike hate) is to have the ball publicly thrown back in their court. They hate that...for they can't just walk away. The public...and if you're lucky, some of their constituency...are waiting with bated breath for the rematch, so their congressman can mop up the floor with you.
Only he ain't gonna show. He knows you got him.
Take away the lie and you take away 70% of the Left's ammunition and 30% of their protective armor.
Are you listening FoxNews?
Your news division needs to take "the lie" out of the political opinion segment of your broadcasts (Beck, O'Reilly, Gibson, et al) and put it firmly back in the news division...where I believe...the Constitution always intended it to be, for I do believe the Constitution viewed the media as Quality Control in this process.
Fair and balanced, my sister's black cat's arse. As long as you allow yourself to treat a lie as "politics" rather than a direct assault on the foundations of government, you're on the wrong side of the issue.
Get it Roger? Get it Shep?
VB