Episode 55: Truth and Consequences

Mom Always Liked you Best.
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"I would make a proposition to my Republican friends. If they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

- Adlai Stevenson

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Lies, Damned Lies, and John McCain

It's difficult to keep up. The Republican candidate's stormtroopers, the thuggish Steve Schmidt and practicing lobbyist Rick Davis, never allow the simple truth to sully their outrageous daily assaults on Barak Obama and reality. Still, here are recent examples of the unceasing mendacity of the unholy trio.

Lie: Obama passed legislation to teach comprehensive sex education to kindergarteners.

Truth: The Illinois bill would have allowed only "age appropriate" material, it didn't pass, and Obama wasn't even a co-sponsor.

Lie: Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy.

Truth: Alaska produces 3.5 percent of our domestic energy production.

Lie: McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, has had no involvement the company he co-founded and owned for several years.

Truth: Davis received a monthly stipend of $15,000 from his firm's client, Freddie Mac, right up until August, when the government took it over.

Lie: Obama will raise taxes on income, electricity, home heating oil, and life savings.

Truth: Obama repeatedly states he will raise taxes on income and capital gains only for couples making more than $250,000. He has voiced no plans to raise taxes on electricity and has proposed energy rebates of up to $1,000 for the purchase of home heating oil.

Lie: Obama's advisors are saying that the financial crisis will benefit him politically.

Truth: McCain's campaign cannot cite a single example of such a claim.

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News Item:

A moose estimated to weigh 1,000 pounds was killed when she crossed Intersate 684 in northern Westchester County, less than 40 miles from Times Square. Eight cars were damaged in the resulting pile-up.

Why did the moose cross the road?

She spotted Sarah Palin in the woods.

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If Palin Was a Contestant on Jeopardy!

Katie Couric's interview of Sarah Palin was lluminating, in its way.

Sarah's answer: "We have trade missions back and forth. We - we do - it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin raises his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border."

Katie's Question: "Have you ever been involved in negotiations with your Russian neighbors?"

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"We need more than a brave soldier. We need a wise leader."

- Joe Biden

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A doctor was treating an elderly Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle. Their conversation got around to the election and Sarah Palin.

The old rancher said, "Well, y'know, Palin is a post turtle."

The doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The rancher said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle."

The doctor was puzzled.

The rancher continued, "You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she's up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with."

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The first debate is over. The next one is supposed to return to the subject of the economy. When you watch it, consider:

During the last Democratic administration, the federal budget was balanced and the federal deficit was erased.

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