> -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:24 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: McCain admits to being a technological illiterate > > >Crap or not, the rating is quoted all over the place, from MSM to > >fringe blogs. What burns your ass is that it sticks because it's true. > > > > So let me get this straight, you admit that the ranking is pure BS and > largely fictional, yet you still follow it. Tell me you still think > that the world is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth?
No - he's clearly saying that even if it was a bald-faced lie, enough people have now said it. Which makes it true. Because anything that's repeated enough must have some value. Essentially it's the same complex lie being using by the anti-evolutionists and the anti-vaccinationists: 1) Create and then publicize an outlandish statement. 2) With that statement create a political and/or social controversy where none existed. 3) Claim that the existence of the political and/or social controversy proves that the claim should be taken seriously factually or scientifically. 4) When the claim is ignored factually or scientifically (you know, because it's a lie) claim that some entrenched establishment is "suppressing the truth" (usually for some tenuously-linked monetary gain). I don't believe that we've made it here with the lie about Obama's voting record. It's a self-fulfillment fallacy: There must be truth in this controversy we've invented because there's a controversy. Really just a complex, more directly devious version of the Argument from Consensus, the "Bandwagon" fallacy. The fallacy considers truth a product of democratic processes. If enough people say it, it must have merit... so all you have to do to GIVE something merit is get it said a lot. Of course that's clearly insane thinking but it's a technique made art by the Republican campaign machines in recent years. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264517 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
