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Defenders Discrediting Themselves

• Nov 27, 2009 Posted by Karen Erb
  Recently we in Kenosha have been in uproar about health care and its cost of coverage.

  
  

  The 2008 challenger to Paul Ryan made reform a key part fo her campaign, though many voters didn't understand her or what Democrats wanted to make clear.

  
  

  This Friday morning, far from the Black Friday shopping spree, I find in the Racine paper a letter praising Paul Ryan and denouncing a previous letter Mrs. Krupp sent to Journal Times. It appears under a headline "Get facts right" and completes raking over Marge Krupp with this sentence:

  
  

  Marge Krupp's deceptive "facts" must be what Don Quixote meant when he said, "Facts are the enemy of truth."

  
  

  That sentence has two clues in it that most of us recognize:

  
  

   1) our justice system, our scientific discoveries and just about everything else depends on discerning fact, on seeking the truth, so the quotation is foolish, on its face;

  
  

   2) Don Quixote is the main character of a novel, of fiction. The novel is generally considered a satire, a joust at a windmill with a lance from centuries past.

  
  

  In fact, you could say the writer criticizing Marge Krupp has well proved the exact edict of the headline, "Get Facts Right", by failing at it. While defending Paul Ryan with a clueless reference to a satirical anti-truth.

  
  

  It's a priceless instance of Republicans and defenders of Paul Ryan discrediting themselves.

  
  

  Happy Thanksgiving Weekend.

  
  

  Norm Siler
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