-By Warner Todd Huston
Lee Fang has cobbled together a new book ostensibly meant as a guide to things that conservative activists are doing for their cause and in his chapter on the Koch brothers he regurgitates dozens of un-sourced lies that have little basis in fact even as he presents them as fact.
Firstly we must dispense with any pretense that Lee Fang is anything but a screedist, a young fellow whose only goal is to churn emotional hatred against conservatives. He isn’t interested in truth or facts and his style is to just spin loose associations into grand conspiracies in order to push his narrative.
Fang is so bad that he has had to be scolded by his own publishers for his lies. He “writes” for the left-wing magazine The Nation and why they continue to employ him after his years of outright lies is anyone’s guess.
Take Fang’s April 22 piece on how climate “reform” was “poisoned from the inside.” His piece was so filled with innuendo, lies, and distortions that The Nation had to post a three-paragraph disclaimer telling readers that everything they wee about to read was essentially untrue. This warning to the reader was half as long as Fang’s piece!
Anyway, in a Washington Free Beacon article amusing titled “Half Baked,” Lachlan Markay does a great job deconstructing Fang’s latest lies about the Kochs
Markay notes that Fang goes into his book with fair warning that he is a left-wing activist. It was probably the only honest part of the book.
Fang says,
“I think we’d have a better political system if it wasn’t so influenced by special interest groups across the board,” Fang said. But “if you think the interests of two billionaires seeking upper income tax cuts and industrial deregulation are akin to unionized janitors and nurses seeking better work and retirement conditions, I don’t know what to tell you.”
Notice that Fang thinks the First Amendment is fine for him and his light-bringers, his pals on the left who only and obviously are angels with only gooooood intentions but that it is bad for anyone that opposes his views or that anyone that is on the right or works for a corporation is evil and shouldn’t be allowed to speak.
This is the left’s entire scheme of observing the First Amendment, it must be noted. Only they should be allowed to exercise the right of free speech. This is the essential hypocrisy of the left in a single focus. Liberals don’t want freedom. They are authoritarians, tyrants who want to use the force of law to supports themselves on one hand and to quash dissent on the other. This is why Democrats and liberalism is entirely un-American in every way possible.
I won’t revisit all of Markay’s points because he did a fine job shooting down many of the lies that Lee Fang vomits out in his new tome. Please go ahead and click over to his account of Fang’s distortions as it is a good read.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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