One of the academics quoted in the article says, "A good education involves a search
for truth and understanding. To an extraordinary degree you have to validate what
you say with evidence…. that’s the accepted professional standard.”
I laughed when I read that because the people propagating all the "rewriting,
sugarcoating and ignoring" simply don't care. We have known for quite awhile
now that things don''t seem to have to make sense to the these people. And
while many look on in astonishment, they also let them get away with it. Instead
of saying recently, for example, that Michele Bachmann is wrong--that the meaning
of submission is not "respect" they let her have her own meaning and others can
believe it, too, if they desire. They let Sarah Palin and her ilk believe that Paul
Revere was out warning the British in some convoluted way that she uttered.
I was watching a program last fall about how some of these things that conservatives
utter become truth and talking points. A specific example was used -- how a person
on Fox news uttered something that was picked up by others as true and their source
was that it was said on Fox news. The truth then being that if it was said on Fox news,
it was then true ultimately. Proving things to this new conservative group using facts and
logic doesn't matter to them. They seem to only believe what they want to believe if
it suits their purpose, facts and logic be damned. After all, they are "faith based." You
used to be able to fight against a lot of these inanities using facts and logic. How you do
it now when facts and logic are dismissed is a quandry I hope someone can find an answer to.