Randall Hoven offers insight in American Thinker on April5

Stop Making Sense

Excerpt

But when the adversary is not nature, but fellow men, rationality as normally considered is out the window. We live in a world where Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank are taken seriously. Where Libya is given the chair on the Human Rights commission at the UN. Where heads of state genuinely believe sheep farts are dangerously heating up the planet.

As Vladimir Lenin was commenting on “all those starving people who are starting to eat each other, who are dying by the millions,” Walter Duranty was the New York Times Moscow bureau chief saying things were just wonderful there. He won a Pulitzer Prize for that.

Here is the awful truth: it’s not what is true, it’s what you can convince others to believe.

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