False Premises

You certainly have to watch people with an agenda. They'll throw out a false premise to make a point and trust that you will just accept what they say as gospel truth.

Here's an example of what I mean:

"The assumption that straight people are better than gay people is incorrect." ~ Zach Wahls, the 21-year-old son of two mommies.

I'd like Zach to point out anyone who has based his beliefs on homosexuality on the assumption that straight people are better than gay people. I don't think he can do it. What Zach has done is substitute "better than" for right and wrong.

This is the same tactic Democrats use when they say that Republicans don't want poor people to have health care. Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that Republicans rightly agree that Obamacare isn't the solution for insuring that poor people have healthcare -- that Obamacare will, on the contrary, eliminate jobs for poor people and cost them more than they can pay; but all those poor gullible liberals accept the false premise without question and will swear up and down that Republicans are heartless.

Here's another quote: "Much is rightly made about the Republican War on Women. But the Republicans are fighting a more deliberate battle against the poor. It is audacious, insensitive and ugly. Republicans have clearly decided that the War on the Poor is good politics." ~Jeff Madrick, Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow.

Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous?

So the next time something is thrown out there as a fact to bolster a liberal agenda, examine it with a critical eye. Chances are, it's not a fact at all, and we should hold the feet of these purveyors of untruth to the fire by making them back up what they say!

"Fallout spreads for Scouts." The Dallas Morning News; September 30, 2012; p. 1A.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-madrick/republicans-poverty_b_1837962.html