# The Flexibility of Reality and the GOP **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flexibility-of-reality-and-the-gop/290936 "2005-02-19T21:22:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flexibility-of-reality-and-the-gop/290936/81 "2005-02-24T03:44:09Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > So let me get this straight… Not that there’s anything wrong with that… > [@](#): > > 1. You post a partisan liberal link which that misquotes a congressman in order to attack him The matter was discussed in a number of places…Salon, Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly… Certainly liberaly oriented, to be sure, but hardly rabidly partisan. If these sources have long standing records of mendacity, records that can be compared to sources that you have offered on these pages as substantiation, you will have no problem proving it. Did you even read the link I provided for clarification? If you had, you would be aware that the difference is very slight indeed. Mr. Cox relied upon a Fox News release, which he embellished to his own purposes. Point of fact, he was even more a liar than he was originally reported to be, as he distorted the very source he relied upon. Ms. Goldbergs veracity or lack thereof has no bearing on his own, however much you may wish it so. > [@](#): > > …2) You ridicule me for my healthy skepticism on the accuracy… When, oh, when will you cease to misrepresent and mischaracterize my posts! Your skepticism was advanced before you knew anything at all about the matter, you posited it in pristine ignorance of the circumstances. What do you expect, accolades for your biases? > [@](#): > > …3) You and several others indict the man, the administration and republicans in gerneral, saying that we **distort reality** … Yes. But, you will recall, my original question was more in terms of belief in the face of fact. Clearly, anyone who believed what he said was not a member of the reality-based community. It was your suggestion, was it not, that his words were merely blowing smoke up one another’s ass? And therefore harmless and silly, not like the dreadful demogoguery of the Evil Dean. > [@](#): > > 1. It turns out that I’m right and he was maliciously misquoted and his words distorted to better ridicule him Misquoted, yes, perhaps. _He_ says he was misquoted. But, truth be known, if the clarification offered is closer to the fact, it is far worse! I should have been more pleased to have that to offer, since the “perfume poison” plot is pretty near the silliest thing I’ve heard from a Republican orifice in…well, several days at least. > [@](#): > > …5) This vindicates you in your thesis that Republicans distort reality?.. Hmmm. Is there any distinction between an observation and a thesis? Didn’t you yourself, as noted above, call it bullshit? Hence, is it not your thesis as well? > [@](#): > > Do I need to point out to you that the people doing the lying and distorting of reality here were not Republicans? As noted above, you pointed out precisely the opposite. > [@](#): > > …You were so pissed off at Cox when you thought he told a factual untruth… He did. You said so yourself. If I cannot look to **Scylla** as my paragon of truth, were can I look? > [@](#): > > …Somehow it doesn’t bother you that you’ve been duped into falsely maligning the man, and encouraged others to do so here?.. Nope. The man’s a liar and a poltroon, it simply isn’t possible to malign such as he. > [@](#): > > …Not only are you being hypocritical, to say you are distorting reality would be an understatement. You appear to be making up your own as you go along… When the subject is hypocrisy, I must bow to your expertise. But what did I “make up”? > [@](#): > > …I must certainly acknowledge again that it was rather decent of you to break the news on the falsehood of the story… I much prefer clarity and truth. It works to my advantage. > [@](#): > > …I’ll leave the final words with you, put on my dancing shoe, and bid you a fond adieu… _And bravely he did bugger off! Brave, brave, brave Sir Scylla!_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-flexibility-of-reality-and-the-gop/290936.md?page=4)