Conservatives Have Figured Out A Disturbingly Effective Strategy: Tell Lots And Lots of Lies

Conservatives Have Figured Out A Disturbingly Effective Strategy: Tell Lots And Lots of Lies

By Amanda Marcotte at The Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/26/conservatives-have-figured-out-a-disturbingly-effective-strategy-tell-lots-and-lots-of-lies/

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Updated to add: A commenter reminded me that this phenomenon was first chronicled with creationists and deemed the “Gish Gallop” by skeptics. You can read about that here.

The rollout of manufactured conservative outrage about insurance plans being required to cover contraception—something, may I remind you, most already did—has been a demonstration that the right wing noise machine has perfected the art of bullshit, after decades of honing their craft. Conservative leaders have learned they can train their followers to believe anything, with One Simple Trick: Lie faster than the debunkers can debunk. With the contraception mandate, there’s been a dizzying amount of lies that have been pouring out of the right, and this is no accident. Conservative leaders have learned that if you drown your opposition in lies, they are doomed. Even if they debunk one lie, audiences who are eager to buy into the anti-contraception line will simply cling to another. If you debunk that lie, conservatives just switch to another or switch back. So discourse goes like this:

Conservative: I don’t want to pay for your abortifacients!

Liberal: Look, there are two lies in there. One, you are not “paying for” my contraception. That’s just how health care plans work, where everyone pays into a pool and we draw out what we need—

Conservative: But this is abortion and abortion is evil evil evil!

Liberal: The contraception mandate does not cover abortion. It covers contraception, which prevents pregnancy—

Conservative: But contraception works by killing fertilized eggs! That is abortion!

Liberal: Look, that’s two lies again. One, there is no evidence that most hormonal contraception has any effect on fertilized eggs and even if it did, that is not abortion, because pregnancy begins at implantation, not fertilization.




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