omissions , half truths and outright lies...everybody has an agenda

[Saltheart]

Recently I have been getting tons of emails about Obama's proposed health care programs. Each one is very clear about one particular point and their inetrpretation of that single point or statement but then says absolutely nothing about other points or stipuulations that may address or mitigate that point.

An exampel is all the people who now look for any little thing they can harp on to make the health care plans sound like the dark ages when in fact , they only care about the abortion part of it. If the plans involves any positive support for abortion or what they call "pro choice" the anti abortion people come up with twenty different scary things they blast all over the internet as if they are concerned with these minute details when all they are doing is piling more crap on to promote their single real cause.

Now I just used abortion as an example because I have seen it recently on the emails I get. It could be any other agenda where people want to rpomote one idea and do so by taking everything they can out of context or partial explanations and using these to try to defeat a bigger idea which does contain the one thing they are opposed to.

The ones that kill me most are when there is a statement that goes on for say 10 paragraphs. The anti whatevers grab one sentence out of those 10 paragraphs then they just use half of that sentence or parts of that sentence to make some interpretation of what was said to be favorable or against some idea that frightens people.

Imagine out of 10 paragraphs about health care there is a sentence that reads

" As may be required under existing or future legislation , this health care option will cover all pregnancy related medical care such as premature deliveries, miscarriages or abortions"

The story then gets told with no reference to the other 10 paragraphs and the headline reads "..future...health care options will cover all...abortions"

This is now happening all the time on boths sides of the issues. Its almost impossible for Americans to know what is really proposed or what has really been said by whom.

Another example of a sentence or two taken out of context and then repieced together

"The recent preliminary analysis or weather data from the Pacicfic Northwest by NOAA shows a long term trend for cooling on a global basis rather than global warming over the last 20 to 100 years."

Then becomes

Recent..weather data from..NOAA shows a long term trend for ..global warming over the last..100years."

This kind or half truth , out of context , fact omiting information in my opinion is outright lying.