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The Republicans wage a war against facts

I'm talking about Republican Congressman Peter King of New York. When he made an appearance on CNN recently, he and host Soledad O'Brien had the following back and forth:

O'Brien: "Never once in that speech, as you know, which I have the speech right here, that was - he never once used the word 'apology.' He never once said 'I'm sorry.'"

King: "Didn't have to. The logical - any logical reading of that speech or the speech he gave in France where he basically said the United States can be too aggressive..."

O'Brien: "Everybody keeps talking about this apology tour and apologies from the President. I'm trying to find the words 'I'm sorry, I apologize' in any of those speeches. Which I have the text of all those speeches in front of me. None of those speeches at all, if you go to factcheck.org which we check in a lot, they all say the same thing. They fact check this and they say this whole theory of apologies..."

King: "I don't care what fact check says."

O'Brien: "There are fact checks. You may not care, but they're a fact checker."

King: "No, Soledad. Any commonsense interpretation of those speeches, the president's apologizing for the American position. That's the apology tour. That's the way it's interpreted in the Middle East. If I go over and say that the U.S. has violated its principles, that the United States has not shown respect for Islam, that's an apology. How else can it be interpreted?"

O'Brien: "I think plenty of people are interpreting it as a nuanced approach to diplomacy is how some people are interpreting it. So I don't think that everybody agrees it's apology."

While Democrats have claimed that Republicans have waged a war against women and rightly so in my opinion, it seems as if they're failing to mention another war that the GOP seems to be waging - one against facts. 

Mitt Romney pollster, Neil Newhouse, recently summed it up best when he said, "We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers."

I read a recent post about how a moderator over at the conservative website RedState was going to ban anyone whom fact-checked statements and included the link(s) and/or quote(s) from that site in the comments section. 

Peter King is now saying, "I don't care what fact check says."

I can't tell you how many times I've read or heard a Republican who has claimed that fact-checking sites have a liberal bias. 

Perhaps late-night talk show host and satirist, Stephen Colbert, was right when he said, "Reality has a liberal bias." Perhaps that's partly because it seems as if many conservatives simply don't care for or believe facts. 


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