Even now, even after eight years of unrelenting bullshit, I find it impossible to convince most people that the Republicans just make shit up, Goebbels-style.
Consider this tactic. The GOP takes a provision in the stimulus package that funds the restoration of an old rail line joining the capital of Nevada, Carson City, and the town of Gold Hill, Nevada…and they come up with this.
FOX NEWS’ MEGYN KELLY: It’s a super railroad, of sorts — a line that will deliver customers straight from Disney, we kid you not, to the doorstep of the moonlight bunny ranch brothel in Nevada. I say, to the moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada. So should your tax dollars be paying for these kinds of projects? […]
CONGRESSMAN TRENT FRANKS (R-AZ): The majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Harry Reid has fought for this publicly and is committed to this project, even in the face of criticism. … If this is something that is truly the priority of the majority leader of the US senate, it’s pretty late in the day, Megyn.
Where did Megyn Kelly and Trent Franks get this idea? The money is not for a new train-line, it’s not for a connection with Disneyland or any part of the state of California. It has nothing to do with the Bunny Ranch. The Moonlite Bunny Ranch is located approximately six miles from Carson City, but Carson City happens to be the capital of the state of Nevada, which seems quite a bit more relevant to this appropriation’s purpose.
But FOX News and the Republicans, working in cahoots, come up with new ‘facts’ out of thin air and present them as the reason that the American people are losing faith in their government.
Most people simply cannot believe that FOX News and the Republicans, however biased and self-interested they may be, would take lying to this level.
My concern is that this train may disrupt the marsh mouse as it transports good Christian men straight from Disneyland directly into the vaginas of prostitutes.
Fox viewers eat it up, and come back for more. Nothing else matters.
Boo, I am seriously hoping here that you are practicing the fine art of sarcasm in this statement and that you do not actually believe this.
Say it ain’t so!
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The proposed $12 billion magnetic levitation train connecting Las Vegas to Anaheim, Calf., conjures images of engineers, administrators and environmental experts huddled over room-sized maps and computer modeling.
In fact, headquarters for the California-Nevada Super Speed Train Commission (pdf) is in Richann Bender’s suburban tract home, a couple of miles from U.S. 95 on the west side of town.
“There’s always the criticism of something going into Vegas,” says Neil Cummings, project manager for the American Magline Group in Los Angeles. “Gambling express, you know?”
Indeed, the Las Vegas maglev train came in for ridicule last month after Congress and Obama included $8 billion for high-speed rail projects in the stimulus legislation. Republican critics wrongly suggested the money was designated for the Las Vegas maglev proposal. In fact, Las Vegas will again have to compete for funding with other proposed high-speed projects .
Still, Bender pushes on. She expects to get a salary from the commission someday, but that’s contingent on the project moving forward. She believes that will happen and finds the current circumstances the most promising in years. In her view, a maglev train is true to the spirit of Obama’s stimulus bill: It would create construction jobs in the short term and modernize the United States’ crumbling and obsolete infrastructure.
“And it would bring a whole new industry to the U.S.,” Bender says of the proposed 300-mile-per-hour maglev, which could allow travel from Las Vegas to Anaheim in 86 minutes — including stations along the way.
Critics question why a train would connect Las Vegas to Anaheim, rather than denser Los Angeles. But commission leaders say Anaheim is more committed — the city’s mayor is a commission member — and arguably needs it more: John Wayne Airport in nearby Santa Ana is maxed out, while Ontario Airport 45 miles northeast can absorb more traffic. The maglev would stop in Ontario on the way to Las Vegas from Anaheim, giving coastal residents quicker access to the less-crowded airport.
Aguilera estimates it would take just under 15 minutes to reach Ontario from Anaheim by maglev.
The next stop would be Victorville, possibly near the small city’s airport. The train would then continue along I-15 to Barstow, Primm and the proposed Ivanpah Airport.
The next stop would be near McCarran International Airport, possibly by Mandalay Bay, and the train would continue to its terminus in downtown Las Vegas.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."read that carefully. It never says that that proposed trainline received any funding, because it didn’t. And the bunny ranch is not near Vegas. The Sun article was their first bite at the apple at lying about Harry Reid, trains, and the stimulus. The bunny ranch is the second bite.
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Well aware of difference in Carson City and Las Vegas. I was surprised there was a 30 year old plan for this rail system. I offered some background in the stretch of imagination and the way the R’s fool the Fox News viewers. “Just believing”, a lack of knowledge and making no effort to think and find out for themselves. A prey for any and all propaganda, similar to the ease Bush (and Congress) got the US into the Iraq war.
The maglev sometimes does run into a problem and spiraling cost: 25 miles for $ 4.4bn. Clearly a rail system from Carson City to Moonlite Bunny Ranch by itself would be sort of … costly?
Enjoy life.
Kind regards Boo.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Hey… I live here… I drive by where they are building this rail line all the time. It’s called the The V&T (Virginia and Truckee)Rail Line. The rail route (i.e. the tracks) run out of Carson City, NV heading Northeast. That means the rail line itself does come close to the brothels (The Moonlight Bunny Ranch being only one of them.) outside of Carson City, NV on Highway 50. However, there are no “brothel stops” on the V&T. It’s a cool project.
Go here to read about it: http://www.visitcarsoncity.com/history/vt_railroad.php
Megyn Kelly and Trent Franks are fucking idiots too.
thanks for the local insights. How far northeast do you have to go from Carson City to get to Anaheim? And do you pass Mongolia on the way?
LOL!
From a theoretical FOX/GOP perspective, with northeast being southwest, up being down, black = white etc… the distance really isn’t that far… relatively speaking…via Mongolia or not. The flip side of that one would be to ask what is the straight-line distance (cranial route) between either Megyn Kelly’s and/or Trent Franks’ ears?
Fox gets away with telling fantastical lies because they started out convincing their target audience that the rest of the media was hiding shit from them. Their viewers think that they don’t hear about this nonsense elsewhere because the “librul media” doesn’t want them to know about it. Fox has been building this delusion for a couple of decades now and you’re not going to overthrow it on this, or any other, blog. Fox viewers don’t use the internet to be informed; they use it to find p0rn.
Thankfully, Fox viewers are not “most people.” I think there’s a strong probability that Bush’s final approval rating and Fox’s viewing audience are the same number — 26%. It’s pretty damned frightening to accept that one in four Americans are idiots but, at least, they’re not a majority. Unless we’re willing to infiltrate their churches, I don’t think we stand a chance of reaching them with the facts. And even then…
“Stupidity is the disease of America”.
Norman Mailer
even more disturbing than hacks making shit up is all of the apparently ignorant people in the U.S. who believe everything the hacks say– without bothering to corroborate it.
drug limbaugh just proved how powerful this group of ignoramuses is.
A friend called me about this over the weekend. He’d heard on the Glenn Beck show that Hillary Clinton, on her trip to China, promised eminent domain rights to the Chinese, as they wanted some security for all their investments in our dollar.
I told him no way would Obama or anyone with half a mind cede any rights of “eminent domain” to a foreign power. But nothing I said could shake him from this. He thought there had to be some truth to it.
That’s how powerful a lie is. Even when faced with facts, people still cling to the lie, if it fits their mindset. Really sad.
I remember an old saying that a lie travels to seven villages before the truth puts its shoes on in the morning.
May have been six villages.
What a sad day for the republican party. They just literally make shit up. It’s sad.