Rex's "Truth Goggles" Column Riddled With Deception

So on Sunday Rex rolled out the old deception wagon again to lie to Times Union readers. In a surprising twist, his lies this time are in a column about truthiness.

He begins his mindless pandering to the left by essentially comparing anyone that believes in conservative principles to be as stupid as some woman that had cement injected into her fanny. Nice.

At the MIT Media Lab, a graduate student named Dan Schultz is creating what he calls "truth goggles." These aren't goggles in the actual sense of the word, like those 3D glasses at the movies. It's software.

If it works, it will detect untruthful phrases in what's printed -- like, it might highlight "SuperGlue can enhance your figure!" in this column, if you're reading it digitally. It would "know" the active ingredients of SuperGlue and the deleterious effects they could have on blood flow.

Ah, Rex dreams, if only we could apply "truth goggles" to conservative principles, we'd all be devoted sucklers at the teats of big government in no time. Alas, he sees, too many Americans are dumb asses that don't know enough to see that conservative positions are all bullspit.

It's the failure of Americans to be curious and to look unblinking at facts that underlies a lot of our civic malaise. We're predisposed to settle for easy answers. We're easy marks for the sloganeers, eager consumers of ever-so-simple solutions to problems of immense complexity.

Unfortunately for Rex, doggone it, there just isn't room in his column for "ever-so-simple solutions" and "sloganeers" peddling things like "Hope and Change!" and "We are the ones we've been waiting for!" and how an inexperienced politician will control the oceans.

So we believe we can fix the economy by cutting spending and government regulation;

Rex, you see, portrays this as a laughable lie, believable only to idiots that don't know any better...despite the way the Carter economy was "fixed" under Reagan doing those exact things. Would the "truth goggles" point that out?

we can fight terrorism by talking tough,

I see Rex's straw man is back, even Democrats don't actually make any such claim.

and shut down the Occupy protests by telling the participants to take a bath and get a job.

That poor straw man...here he takes a double-handful of straw and crams it into liberal bogeyman Newt Gingrich's mouth - the intent is not that this would "shut down the Occupy protests" but would what these people need to do to get a job and pay their bills...I bet Rex is secretly hoping those truth goggles never get turned on his paper!

We'll fix public schools by squeezing their funding and avoid the evil of sexual abuse of children by looking the other way.

At this point I'm afraid I don't even know what Rex is talking about as these idiotic statements don't remotely match any claims by anyone that I've ever seen, heard, or even heard of before.

It took two clicks of my computer to learn that Sen. John Kerry had not been fully truthful when he claimed last week that the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction study had concluded we need $2 trillion of new revenues to balance the budget. It was even easier to learn why Mitt Romney's TV spot targeting President Obama's economic policies was clearly intentionally deceitful.

Really? Notice how slyly Rex indicates that he was able to find proof that Kerry had lied, whereas it was "easier" to learn, not that the ad was deceitful, but that it was "intentionally deceitful". Really, Rex? What website did you go to for this in less than "two clicks" of your computer? I guess I missed it when the ad creators gave an interview and said they'd "intentionally" made a "deceitful" ad...in fact, I could almost see how Rex is being "intentionally deceitful" about finding any such thing by 'clicking his computer'. Oh, but that's OK if you don't believe him...it's just because YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!

Maybe you'd just like to believe what they tell you is true. That's almost understandable: The truth is much tougher to swallow.

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I wonder what Rex makes of liberal 'news' hosts spouting lies like this garbage all the time: NBC's Gregory: Idea That Tax Hikes Hurt Economy 'One of the Falsehoods That's Peddled in Washington'

GREGORY: But the notion, but the notion that tax cuts or tax increases somehow impact economic growth, we know historically that's simply not the case. President Clinton raised taxes during boom times. President Bush lowered taxes did not spur great job creation. Isn't that one of the falsehoods that's peddled in Washington?

GROVER NORQUIST: No. If you take a look at when you cut marginal tax rates, the strong growth in the last six years of the '90s started the day the Republicans captured the House and Senate. Didn't happen in the first two years, certainly didn't happen with the tax increase, and there was a cut of the capital gains tax that helped stimulate economic growth there.

The Bush tax cuts 2001 were not designed to be stimulative to the economy. There were a lot of tax credits in there, they weren't real reductions in rates. The 2003 rate reductions you had on cap gains and others, that gave you four years of strong economic growth that lasted until the Democrats won the House and Senate, and you knew those tax cuts were going away.

And, as Newsbusters notes, after the cuts under Bush that "did not spur great job creation", 8 MILLION jobs were created in America. "Isn't that one of the falsehoods that peddled in Washington?" Well, certainly on the news the untrue "facts" Gregory is spewing are peddled.