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Thomas Sowell: Are Facts Obsolete? - 'In an election campaign in which not only young liberals, but also some people who are neither young nor liberals, seem absolutely mesmerized by the skilled rhetoric of Barack Obama, facts have receded even further into the background than usual...'
What are mere facts in the face of sloganeering and PR? To listen to an Obamabot talk provides no modest amount of bemusement, yet they take themselves so very seriously, doncha know. It's like talking to an advanced robotic form, programmed to slip, slide and elide and repeat the same formulaic expressions with variations.
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What are mere facts in the face of sloganeering and PR? To listen to an Obamabot talk provides no modest amount of bemusement, yet they take themselves so very seriously, doncha know. It's like talking to an advanced robotic form, programmed to slip, slide and elide and repeat the same formulaic expressions with variations.