Posted on 09/14/2013 7:16:27 PM PDT by markomalley
The blockbuster story that the facts in the Matthew Shepard murder case have been distorted in order to promote a political agenda is another example of the power of the left's narrative mythmaking. Gay journalist Stephen Jimenez presents a new argument as to the details of Shepard's murder in The Book of Matt, but he's up against 15 years of storytelling and inverted reality.
A piece in the gay culture magazine The Advocate by Aaron Hicklin lays out the facts about the Shepherd mythology, but it also contains a line that is the Rosetta Stone to understanding how leftist narrative mythology is so pervasive in both the arts in journalism. Despite the clear evidence that the story that Shepard was done in by deadly homophobia was inaccurate and that Shepard was instead killled in a meth-fueled bender by another man who was bisexual, Hicklin states:
There are valuable reasons for telling certain stories in a certain way at pivotal times, but that doesn’t mean we have to hold on to them once they’ve outlived their usefulness.
Take a moment and read that quote again, because it's one of the clearest statements ever written on how the left sees "the narrative." It's moral relativism applied to epistemology and metaphysics. There is no such thing as truth to the left. There are "certain stories" that can be told "a certain way." The story tellers, whether they are artist or journalist, simply pick and choose which story they will tell which way depending upon whether it's a "pivotal time."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Don’t leave Al Gore out of this mix. Think of how America has changed because of all these myths and lies. It is the only way they can sell this crap.
Yeah and were was Zimmerman when Matthew was killed?
Why promote a lie? Because the lie is more effective. That's all that matters in a culture that's dominated by the leftist views of Saul Alinsky, the Frankfurt School, and the media machines of the mainstream media, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue.
Hmmm! What was that about the military-industrial complex? Maybe we have met the enemy, and he turned out to be someone else.
yes fat Albert lent ALL of his Gravitas....to the Destroy America “movement”and the BUNK he spewed forth will likely outlive him..too.
WHO...could ever have taken al gore SERIOUSLY???
Left wing martyr myth-making has become a cottage industry.
thats right!
Not only did they get the “climate change” trend wrong, they got it BACKWARDS.
par for the course but it’s still ever so embarassing to see grown men and women make complete fools of themselves DAY AFTER DAY for YEARS now!
You bet.
And Dan Rather, who wrote the rules they play by. “Fake, but accurate...”
The left has done untold damage to women, gays and minorities, not to mention unions and environmentalists. Everything the left touches looks crazy, because it knows no other way. Progressives taint every one and every cause they think they own by mindless, emotional, irrational raving. The left cares about nothing but power, and once in power, women will be back in the kitchen, blacks in the back of the bus, and environmentalists in lunatic asylums, and they’ll have no one to turn to.
Speaking of journalism, do proof readers no longer exist?
Good one Wolf.
Not that lefties care about the truth.
I'd call it a factory industry.
Why promote a lie? Because the lie is more effective.
At about page 100, there are several delightful pages, under the heading ... “Why a Lie is better than the truth”. It included such gems as ...
* Lies are stronger than the truth. 99 parts lie, 1 part truth — lie. 99 parts truth, 1 part lie ... lie.
* Lies are more believable than the truth. The truth can be wildly improbable, but lies are carefully crafted to be believable.
There were 2 pages like this. Whenever I was asked to participate in writing a proposal, I would copy these pages and pass them out at the appropriate time to break the tension.
HEY LIBERALS:
IT WAS A JOKE!!!
Maybe they will revisit the Jesse Dirkhising story.
For leftist propagandists, the important thing is to saturate the culture with the lie. After that, the lie will continue to be widely believed long after it is revealed to be false. The saturation matters, the debunking does not. Many years from now, liberals will still babble about how horrible it was that Shepard was killed "just because he was gay," and conservatives will still stare at them in disgust.
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