Lefty promulgates another fake “truth”

This is how falsehoods enter the common consciousness. Lefty misquotes someone (almost always a conservative politician). Other lefties pick up the falsehood and run with it as truth. If enough people pick up that the quote was wrong, a little correction on the original source gets issued on page 8, but plagiarists and serial re-quoters either don’t notice or just ignore the correction because hey, it’s such a pithy quote! And, well, if it’s not actually true (lefties have a special relationship with “the truth”), it sounds like it could be! Lefty bloggers start repeating false quote as “true fact.” And so on and so on, until a lot of people who hear it assume it must be true.

Heard a variation on this one?

There were people of course in the Reagan government – a very famous secretary ofthe interior who believed we should mine all the national parks because the end times were upon us and what the hell.

Go read this column from Andrew Bolt, bookmark the proof that that claim is flat out wrong, and throw it at the next Lefty you hear repeating that falsehood.

We really should build an easy-reference debunking link page, if there isn’t already one. Start with the “plastic turkey,” then the “God told me to bomb Iraq,” add this one…

Cheez-whiz, Lefties really tick me off.