{"id":12318,"date":"2013-12-10T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=12318"},"modified":"2013-12-10T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:00:29","slug":"the-old-false-equivalency-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/10\/the-old-false-equivalency-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old &#8220;False Equivalency&#8221; Lie&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If one person jumps 5 feet, and another &#8216;4 inches, they did not jump<\/p>\n<p>the same height. But don&#8217;t tell that to FOX, or any Republican today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/false-equivalence-race-hounds.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12320\" title=\"false-equivalence-race-hounds\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/false-equivalence-race-hounds.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/false-equivalence-race-hounds.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/false-equivalence-race-hounds-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/><\/a>(No, not =)<\/p>\n<p>In <em>all<\/em> cases, they jumped the exact same, and all things are always =<\/p>\n<p>No they&#8217;re not. Not now, not ever. It&#8217;s called the &#8220;False Equivalency&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>game or &#8220;both sides do it!&#8221;. If I have a cereal killer, who killed 89, &amp;<\/p>\n<p>a guy arrested for assault &amp; battery, the media will shout, &#8220;Hey look,<\/p>\n<p>BOTH sides do it, it&#8217;s totally equal&#8221;. Over the weekend, one of the 2<\/p>\n<p>balcony old fart Muppets in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/101260411?__source=yahoo|finance|headline|headline|story&amp;par=yahoo&amp;doc=101260411|No%20%27extremists%20in%20my%20part\">Ken Langone<\/a> asked D-Steny Hoyer  this<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There are extremists on the Republican Party. And if <\/em><br \/>\n<em>you want me to throw out a name, I will. How about <\/em><br \/>\n<em>you throwing out a name of an  extremist in your party?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To this shit, Democratic house member Hoyer responded by saying:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think there are any extremists in my party&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then Home Depot Muppet Statler decided to throw up his hands big:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ken-Home-Depot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12321\" title=\"Ken Home Depot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ken-Home-Depot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Statler-Muppet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12322\" title=\"Statler Muppet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Statler-Muppet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;What more can I say. The other guys are the bad guys &amp; we&#8217;re the good&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ding! What does he win for playing the false equivalency game Jack?!<\/p>\n<p>While there are &#8220;corporatist whore&#8221; Dems, &amp; some who suck the dong<\/p>\n<p>of Wall Street, and yet some others are <em>very<\/em> spineless, the &#8216;Democrats&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t have people unwilling to govern, shutting down an entire country<\/p>\n<p>and obstructing every single thing. Meh, the old fart will be dying soon<\/p>\n<p>And then this Home Depot co-founder ignorance dies with him. I&#8217;m so<\/p>\n<p>sick of saying all things are equal. They are not. Only sociopaths want<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12323\" title=\"Steny Hoyer Democrat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Steny-Hoyer-Democrat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"211\" \/>(&#8220;you people are insane&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>that to be true, so when they kill MORE they still feel justified about it<\/p>\n<p>Hoyers response was measured, accurate, and cut to the very core here<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We took the Republican number of <a class=\"inline_asset\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/100378424\" target=\"_self\">sequester<\/a>. We didn&#8217;t like that number,<br \/>\nBut we also understood that you got to move the government forward&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is partisan insane sociopaths like Ken, want <em>their<\/em> way<\/p>\n<p>ALL THE TIME. They want &#8220;heads I win, tails you lose&#8221;. And they ALL<\/p>\n<p>hate the &#8220;uppity ni**er in the white house&#8221;. If they win an election, they<\/p>\n<p>scream, &#8220;Shut up &amp; do what I want, it&#8217;s a mandate&#8221;. When they lose an<\/p>\n<p>election (like they will be doing for the next 50 years) they&#8217;ll bluster, &#8220;I<\/p>\n<p>will <em>not<\/em> compromise or work with you at all, so fuck off. We do, what <em>I<\/em><\/p>\n<p>want, or you can go eat shit&#8221;. It&#8217;s a sociopathic ID driven Ayn Randian<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/false-equivalence.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12324\" title=\"false-equivalence\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/false-equivalence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/false-equivalence.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/false-equivalence-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a>(pretty much)<\/p>\n<p>child. What they is need a &#8216;time-out&#8217;, &amp; politically they will be getting it<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow: Nelson Mandela Smeared By The Right Wing Lunatics<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If one person jumps 5 feet, and another &#8216;4 inches, they did not jump the same height. But don&#8217;t tell that to FOX, or any Republican today (No, not =) In all cases, they jumped the exact same, and all things are always = No they&#8217;re not. Not now, not ever. It&#8217;s called the &#8220;False [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12327,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions\/12327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}