Obama Doesn’t Support the Families of 9/11 and Other Outrageous Crap

From time to time, I have mentioned what the topic of conversation is at the workplace of my boys. And sometimes, when they get home, they will repeat the most outrageous statements, with a completely straight face, just to see my reaction. Last night’s outrageous statement was, “Obama doesn’t support the families of 9/11″

Now, where the hell did that come from? I suppose you can tell that their co-workers are follow the rantings of some very deeply disturbed people, because I cannot find who even has said this outrageous thing. My first inclination is to attribute this to either Rush, O’Reilly or Savage, but I’m not strong enough this morning to delve farther than their front pages. But, what is truly disturbing, is that these coworkers actually BELIEVE this crap, even though all the news outlets led with the story that Obama and McCain came together to remember 9/11 at ground zero.

Of course, no one mentions that McSame has broken with just about everyone and wants to keep troops in Iraq. Or that Iraq had nothing, whatsoever, to do with 9/11.

Which leads me to Krugman’s column.

Did you hear about how Barack Obama wants to have sex education in kindergarten, and called Sarah Palin a pig? Did you hear about how Ms. Palin told Congress, “Thanks, but no thanks” when it wanted to buy Alaska a Bridge to Nowhere?

These stories have two things in common: they’re all claims recently made by the McCain campaign — and they’re all out-and-out lies.

Krugmans point is that the media promotes the dishonesty.

Why do the McCain people think they can get away with this stuff? Well, they’re probably counting on the common practice in the news media of being “balanced” at all costs. You know how it goes: If a politician says that black is white, the news report doesn’t say that he’s wrong, it reports that “some Democrats say” that he’s wrong. Or a grotesque lie from one side is paired with a trivial misstatement from the other, conveying the impression that both sides are equally dirty.

This is a serious problem. Seriously, folks, when the media itself promotes the lies of the McCain campaign, without giving viewers/listeners factual information, there is a very serious problem. While we have to be on notice not to believe the media outlets, and do our own fact checking on every issue, Krugman notes that the actual lies are a sign of things to come, should the lying team somehow take the White House.

I’m talking, instead, about the relationship between the character of a campaign and that of the administration that follows. Thus, the deceptive and dishonest 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign provided an all-too-revealing preview of things to come. In fact, my early suspicion that we were being misled about the threat from Iraq came from the way the political tactics being used to sell the war resembled the tactics that had earlier been used to sell the Bush tax cuts.

And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?

This, is what we are fighting. Nearly 8 years of lies, leading to countless deaths, and a failed occupation, a failing economy at home, and all the other lies being spouted, should not give McStain the slightest chance for the White House. But, it will, as long as the media dishonestly trys to be “balanced” and people buy into the lies.