Jiminy is the manliest of bugs.
I have written several times before on truth, the lack of it, the abuse of it, and the blatant disregard of it. USA Today published an article and an opinion piece that should be of interest to any of my fellow lover’s of truth out there. This is just downright infuriating. The articles are both on the lack of truth in the political TV ads from the McCain and Obama campaigns.
If you want my concise paraphrase of both articles here it is, “Neither of the United States presidential candidates seems to have scruples about completely misleading the American people for their own political gain and McCain is the worse of the two.” There you go.
There is so much more I could say on this. I believe this is the inevitable result manifest, of living in the postmodern era.
The fact checking websites, FactCheck.org and PolitiFact.com were heavily cited in both the article and the opinion. The chart below helps to demonstate how widespread the problem is.
PolitiFact.com rates candidates’ statements on a six-category scale from “true” to “pants on fire” falsehoods.
Barely true
McCain 22
Obama 14
False
McCain 23
Obama 18
Pants on fire
McCain 6
Obama 1
Source: PolitiFact.com, a joint venture of the St. Petersburg Times and CQ.
This stuff makes me want to pull my hair out and start lighting things on fire!