So Many Intolerable Lies - Even the U.S. Marines have been corrupted

The American Spectator ^ | January 6, 2014 | Jed Babbin

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Two events last week — one an announcement by the Marine Corps, the other speeches at the inauguration of New York City's new mayor — illustrated vividly how President Obama and his media cohort have so narrowed the boundaries of political speech that we no longer believe we can challenge outright lies..

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..What Obama said about America in that speech was a lie, what Rev. Lucas and Harry Belafonte said in the de Blasio inauguration were lies, and what the Marines did in renewing their diminution of physical standards for combat arms was the renewal of a broken promise.

There are so many lies coming out of the White House that we have become numb to them. But to concede that is to concede the debate. That is what is happening now across our political spectrum.

We are told by the New York Times that there was no terrorist involvement in the Benghazi attack and that Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker, should be pardoned. The former is an outright lie — see the statements of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers — and the latter is a judgment based on another lie.....

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...There are many certainties, many facts that have to be defended. And there used to be American institutions that could be relied on to defend those truths at all costs. How far has America fallen that the Marine Corps is breaking promises and implementing lies?

Too far. No nation can long survive if it bases its continuation on lies.....

[Westbrook]

> We now know how the Russians felt as they read Tass.

The Russians had a pun using the names of their two largest news services.

One was named Pravda, which means “Truth”, and the other was named Isvestia, which means news.

In the Russian it’s a pun because of the names of the news agencies, but it rings true in modern America even without the pun aspect.

“In the Truth (Pravda) there is no News (Isvestia), and in the News (Isvestia) there is no Truth (Pravda).

[donmeaker]

Keep in mind that we won Tet, we won Vietnam. We got a peacetreaty with Canada as a peace keeper. Only after we left did they invade in violation of their treaty. The 1972 bombings brought North Vietnam to the table and they signed a peace treaty.

After their invasion they were faced with the fact that communism doesn’t work, and had to abandon it. They even invaded Cambodia and stopped Pol Pot from murdering the rest of Cambodia.