Opinion:It’s not the lying, but the inaccuracy

By Roberto Radrigán / Bilingual Weekly Editor

We are approaching the November General Election and Republicans are in a roll, twisting anything and everything into something that will get them back the control of Congress and hopefully a bit later, the White House.“The Democrats continue to incite race to divide America for their political gain,” screams South San Joaquin Republican activist Frank Aquila, insisting on the dead issue regarding an alleged incident of voter intimidation by a New Black Panther Party leader on Election Day in 2008 in a black Philadelphia neighborhood (Blacks needed intimidation to vote for a first black U.S. President?) According to Aquila, of course, this is somehow Obama’s fault. Our own Republican apologist and columnist, Carol Trujillo-Hadley, goes a bit further. “Take a look at the current mess we are in, in our county with over 17% unemployment, crime starting to escalate at warp speed, teachers being cut, libraries closing” she states. This is probably very true, but then she reveals the Republican agenda… “Is the time to vote out our Congressional representative (meaning Democrat Jerry McNerney), and start all over again” First, it implies that the unemployment and everything else is the current government’s fault, and then —do you mean, really, to put back the same irresponsible demagogues who got us in this mess to start with?

But Aquila tops her off.  He twists the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill into a Socialist plot, planned by the Obama Administration to muster public support for the Cap & Trade Bill —a proposed law seeking to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emission of pollutants— a measure rabidly opposed by Big Oil and the Republican Party that lives off their handouts.

Maybe it is true that Change and Recovery are neither as quick nor as deep as we would like. So far, Obama is not proving to be much of a Roosevelt. But if you have forgotten why and how we got in this unprecedented recession and believe these or any of other truth-bending “facts” presented by the ones who caused it, you deserve to be governed by them. 

We are approaching the November General Election and Republicans are in a roll, twisting anything and everything into something that will get them back the control of Congress and hopefully a bit later, the White House.

“The Democrats continue to incite race to divide America for their political gain,” screams South San Joaquin Republican activist Frank Aquila, insisting on the dead issue regarding an alleged incident of voter intimidation by a New Black Panther Party leader on Election Day in 2008 in a black Philadelphia neighborhood (Blacks needed intimidation to vote for a first black U.S. President?) According to Aquila, of course, this is somehow Obama’s fault. Our own Republican apologist and columnist, Carol Trujillo-Hadley, goes a bit further. “Take a look at the current mess we are in, in our county with over 17% unemployment, crime starting to escalate at warp speed, teachers being cut, libraries closing” she states. This is probably very true, but then she reveals the Republican agenda… “Is the time to vote out our Congressional representative (meaning Democrat Jerry McNerney), and start all over again” First, it implies that the unemployment and everything else is the current government’s fault, and then —do you mean, really, to put back the same irresponsible demagogues who got us in this mess to start with?

But Aquila tops her off.  He twists the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill into a Socialist plot, planned by the Obama Administration to muster public support for the Cap & Trade Bill —a proposed law seeking to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emission of pollutants— a measure rabidly opposed by Big Oil and the Republican Party that lives off their handouts.

Maybe it is true that Change and Recovery are neither as quick nor as deep as we would like. So far, Obama is not proving to be much of a Roosevelt. But if you have forgotten why and how we got in this unprecedented recession and believe these or any of other truth-bending “facts” presented by the ones who caused it, you deserve to be governed by them.