The NYT Talks about Telling the Truth with Half Truths. Walter Duranty Would Be so Proud.

In a decent propaganda piece the writer needs to give mostly the facts as Hanoi Hanna [1]did in her Vietnamese radio broadcasts to the US military forces or as sanctioned by Omar Shariff, in the movie Tamarind Seed:[2] “Tell the truth most of the time so that an occasional lie will be believed when necessary.” [or words to that effect]. Here, one of the lesser, but still dedicated liberals tries his hand at explaining the ‘truth’ about the ‘truth’ about the oil crisis and that here is only one alternative.

The construction, entitled Truth or Consequences[3] by Tom Friedman begins with this:

“Imagine for a minute, just a minute, that someone running for president was able to actually tell the truth, the real truth, to the American people about what would be the best — I mean really the best — energy policy for the long-term economic health and security of our country. I realize this is a fantasy, but play along with me for a minute. What would this mythical, totally imaginary, truth-telling candidate say?” [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.][Also, this link references all quotes in this blog unless specifically designed otherwise.]

In terms of a propagandistic construction this is not bad as the door here is opened for speculation about what politicians might say under a heavy dose of truth serum. Of course,   this is not reasonable as our planetary culture seems to utilize some macabre reverse Darwinian Selection process that selects the worst possible liars and sleaze bags as our ‘leaders,’ but we can play along here for educational purposes. We already know what the NYT intends to tell us, because that is part of the party line: we don’t like private property or capitalism. The key to this screed is based on ‘telling the whole truth’ and this will be suppressed today, as usual,  at the Walter Duranty Papers.[4]  They deal only in half truth mixed with leftist ideology and cryptomisoxeny. [5]

More oozes forth:

“For starters, he or she would explain that there is no short-term fix for gasoline prices.”

 Now, that is the truth, but we need a little truthful fluffiness to give the reader the false notion that the rest of this essay is also grounded in truth. Note the little gender slip here. Hillary is out as far as the Times is concerned. [6]

“Cynical ideas, like the McCain-Clinton summertime gas-tax holiday, would only make the problem worse,…”

The cynicism here refers to a tax cut, something so abhorrent to the left that it cannot even be discussed with any coherence. His brother in economics on the NYT staff [some krugmaniacal essayist] actually uses terms like Tax Zombies [7]to criticize and demonize those who would take money away from the ‘people.’ Actually in Europe, now having riots and blockages and more,  the 19% VAT tax might be lifted with some effect.[8] But, as they could not handle the cars being burned or being overrun by Islamo-Fascists either so we shall see. Losing 100,000,000 good citizens since 1870 in nasty wars has affected their gene pool we might surmise as we view the incoherent sputum of European Leadership such as the Prince of Wales. [9]This effect will be discussed later in my refutation of this NYT fluff.

“This candidate would note that $4-a-gallon gasoline is really starting to impact driving behavior and buying behavior in way that $3-a-gallon gas did not.”

 True. This is an astonishing remark as it implies that there is some kind of supply and demand function that might influence buyers and sellers. Maybe NYT economists and their lackeys did take Econ 101.

“But the message going forward to every car buyer and carmaker would be this: The price of gasoline is never going back down.”

 Oooops. The supply/demand function now has a bottom on it. If the supply increase, the price will never go down = NYT Econ Lesson #8831.

And, here we hear the Final Solution:

“We need to make a structural shift in our energy economy. Ultimately, we need to move our entire fleet to plug-in electric cars. The only way to get from here to there is to start now with a price signal that will force the change.”

Some think we need a structural change in our political system. Sometimes there is truth and then there are consequences.

Translated, this means fixing supply and letting the price go wild. The economies of Asia, the US and the socialist Europeans will take a serious downturn, but what the heck. We need to ‘do the right thing’ as Spike Lee said. [10]And, what will generate the electricity? Nuclear power as in France and Japan? Coal? On an efficiency basis, only solar powered cars would let us escape fossil fuels or nuclear energy.  They don’t work. Batteries are too heavy.

“Barack Obama had the courage to tell voters that the McCain-Clinton summer gas-giveaway plan was a fraud. Wouldn’t it be amazing if he took the next step and put the right [(sic), he means left] plan before the American people? Wouldn’t that just be amazing?”

Yes, but telling the good citizens that he will hold down supply and let the price of gas rise to 8-10$ per gallon is not the kind of thing that gets you elected. The citizens will tolerate this for a while until they realize that the liberal Democrats are directly responsible for these prices as they prevent us from exploring, drilling and producing gas from the trillions of barrels of energy we own. The utopian leftists, dreaming of high-rise projects where the good citizens use public transportation and adore their leaders is a dream that will be smashed with capitalism, as usual. Remember the USSR? 74 years of this drool and it went down.

When the voters get angry enough, there will be more drilling and pumping and the construction of numerous nuclear plants. The penalty for this is little as the Global Warming Crisis is a leftist EcoNazi [11]pipedream and only a slick trick to hike taxes and everybody will know that when the weather and hurricane activities continue to run counter to the predictions of their phony compute ‘models.’ [12]

Notice the cynicism in his description of a temporary tax cut? He foams at the mouth at such a prospect.

Here is the truth about capitalism from a distinguished Democrat member of Congress:

“And guess what this member* would be all about? This member would be all about socializing — er, uh. [Pauses for several moments] …. would be about … [pause] … bsically [sic]… taking over, and the government running all of your companies.” [13] [14]--Maxine Waters.

“Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.”[15]-- Maxine Waters.

These rants are shared by almost all the Obama core supporters and the New York Times as well. What NYT article takes on Maxine for her ignorance and racist remarks? She is as important to the Times as Walter Duranty was in his day. This is known as belligerent ignorance.

Several things can be of help here:

[1] Obama tells the liberal truth as the liberals want it to be said, and loses the election and the voters learn that the liberals and their racist progenitors do not like private property and especially hate  SUVs and private  homes in the suburbs.

[2] The idiot Europeans have a nice heavy depression and a juicy civil war with their new Islamo-Fascist masters, lower the demand for oil and the US price goes down while the supply goes up.  Maybe Paris will finally burn down.

[3] The Chinese and Indian economies go into the dumpster as the US demand for their plastic crap is lowered by the high gas prices here at home.

[4] We could blend our current fuel consumption and energy needs with other alternative energy schemes in some kind of decade-long program where oil is slowly phased out and new fuels are phased in. Tax incentives and research and such can be used to find new efficient ways for energy and avoid a depression or severe economic decline in the US and the world.

This blending theme, or any variant thereof, is not mentioned here in this propaganda piece by the Times, but only half truths are offered from the NYT, as this plan is too reasonable and takes power away from the liberals. The best of political times was in 1933-1935 where workers were ‘thankful’ for their worthless jobs raking leaves in the  national forests and viewed Roosevelt as some form of paternal god. “These are hard times.” Well, the left can bring back those times.  After they cause the oil crisis they can solve it with more socialism.

 So, another sophomoric rant passes over the muddy waters and we are again educated as to the actual intent of this form of propaganda. The ‘truth’ in this article was properly distorted in classic Walter Duranty fashion and we salute the Times for being consistent. They are not as good as their Soviet mentors in this art, but some of their works are praiseworthy.

Another thing that might help the fuel prices might be if we legalized sodomy, narcotics, prostitution and celebrated any form of sloth and forced the good citizens at the LeftCoast to recycle food. [16] We could suggest they eliminate all wage taxes for government workers, double taxes for corporations and their employees. As an added social feature they might suddenly double the welfare payments in California, Washington and Oregon thus attracting the sick, lame and lazy from other Parts of America. That might lighten the gas usage for Real Americans.  Utopias do not need fossil fuels—they exist on love, drugs and song.

rycK

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