You lack the intellect to match wits with me -- stick to carrying water for established racists like conservatives normally do
Capital Gazette Shooting -- Why Is It A Bad Thing To Kill The Media?
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You lack the intellect to match wits with me -- stick to carrying water for established racists like conservatives normally do
You aren't a conservative are you?
That's nothing new, is it, Cap'n?
Metaphorical maxims about the speedy dissemination of lies and the much slower propagation of corrective truths have a very long history. The major literary figure Jonathan Swift wrote on this topic in “The Examiner” in 1710, "Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believ’d only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect."
In 1787 “falsehood” was reaching “every corner of the earth”.
In 1820 a colorful version was circulating with lies flying from “Maine to Georgia” while truth was “pulling her boots on”.
By 1834 “error” was running “half over the world” while truth was “putting on his boots”.
In 1787 a collection of sermons by Thomas Francklin was published and a homily on vigilance included an instance of the saying in which “falsehood” reached “every corner of the earth”: "Falsehood will fly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, and carry its tales to every corner of the earth; whilst truth lags behind; her steps, though sure, are slow and solemn, and she has neither vigor nor activity enough to pursue and overtake her enemy."
In 1794 “The Confessions of James Baptiste Couteau” was published, and the author contended that the transmission of spoken lies was impeded, but once those lies were written in a pamphlet they circulated quickly and widely. Couteau referred to a line he ascribed to the prominent poet Alexander Pope: "Oral Calumny is tardy, feeble, and circumscribed, but give her paper wings, and, like a bird, she cleaves the clouds, and flies from province to province, from kingdom to kingdom, gives free circulation to imposition, and a solitary pamphlet, as the Poet Pope says of a love letter, 'Can waft a lie from Indus to the Pole'. Lame Truth limps after too tardily to prevent the winged progress of her adversary'."
In 1808 an adage matching Swift’s was printed in a Boston newspaper column titled “Thoughts”: "“Falsehood,” says one, “flies, and truth comes limping after it.” If a lie be believed sometimes only for an hour, it has accomplished its purpose, and there is no further occasion for it."
John Randolph of Virginia used to say that “a lie could travel from Maine to Georgia whilst truth was drawing on her boots.”
In 1855 the popular London preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon included an instance in a sermon: "If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old Proverb, ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on."
In 1948 Cordell Hull said. "A lie will gallop halfway round the world before the truth has time to pull its breeches on".
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
LINK, racist.
why is it a bad thing that some fake news reporters get killed?
What country have we become?