Normally, little attention is given to Gene Lyons, one of the weekly contributors to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette due to the fact his writing is short on facts that aren’t twisted to match his liberal big government agenda and ideology. However, his screed published on October 24, 2007, demands an answer since he so blatantly misrepresented the truth in every respect. In some circles that is called lying and that seems to be the forte of the man Lyons more often than not.

To begin with, the man doesn’t understand the Constitution in any shape or form, but the Constitution doesn’t mean much to liberals unless it can be used to promote some agenda they are pushing. First, the Constitution has no provision for providing health insurance to anyone no matter how much Lyons wants to twist any part of the document. He cites a CBS poll that says 81 percent of the public wants the SCHIP bill signed into law. An average of three groups supporting the bill in an NPR poll shows only 68 percent supporting the bill. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15356593  Read the article by clicking on the URL.) The man can’t even be honest with numbers by using several sources. Of course, that wouldn’t help with pedaling his propaganda for more government.

 But for now here is the paragraph from the article on percentages: Democrats overwhelmingly favored reauthorization (82 percent), as did independents (69 percent). But Republicans were very divided: A narrow majority (54 percent) said they support the expansion, while 41 percent were opposed.  Then most tellingly is the lack of understanding of the government’s role: Two-thirds of Americans overall think that the government is doing "too little" in providing health insurance to children who don't have it. This includes a majority among men and women, among every age group and among every income group.

What the items cited reveal is that both Lyons and the public think that others should pay for the SCHIP bill and know very little about constitutional government. Isn’t that the responsibility of parents to provide insurance? The SCHIP nonsense is nothing more than It Takes a Village pushed by Hillary Clinton.  While Lyons didn’t actually lie, he didn’t tell all the truth either. Never trust a Lyon liberal or any other liberal for that matter.

Lyons then went after Ann Coulter for what he called offensive remarks to the Jews. He so twisted what she said he could make a cork screw unrecognizable. His diatribe shows he knows as much about the Bible as he does the Constitution, which is mostly nothing. He made a big deal out of her using the word perfection which is the foundation for being acceptable to God. Perfection is through Jesus Christ for both Jews first and Gentiles later. Jesus told the Jews: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5:48) As Paul wrote in Galatians 3:28: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.  

He also said of Coulter: “Ann Coulter’s need to attract attention to herself and those slapdash concoctions she calls “books” approaches the pathological.” Mr. Lyons all six of her books are on the New York Times Best Selling list. How many books do you have on the best selling list? Have you ever had one there?

The liberal mind never misses an opportunity to lie. Lyons said that “Limbaugh’s not man enough to admit he shouldn’t have used the term “phony soldiers” when someone in uniform disagreed with him about Iraq.” (Who is Lyon’s to be telling another what words one should use in a discussion?) Lyon's knows full well that he didn’t reference those soldiers who disagree with the war. He was talking about Jesse MacBeth and the others misrepresenting themselves and the action they supposedly saw. That nonsense he parroted came from Media Matters (whom he cited for being truthful much like Billy Clinton and his “I didn’t have …” truth all the way from both), an organization that excels in twisting the truth and manufacturing fact. The issue at hand is the proof of their proclivities and it is no surprise that he used their twisted views of the truth. As for Rush’s patriotism, he has more than Lyons will ever possess and that opinion is based on the content of his writing.  

Only in this nation can people, such as Lyons, spout off and not be censored by the government. Mr. Lyons, try practicing telling the truth. Everyone will benefit and you might be much happier. If you told the truth you wouldn’t any longer be a liberal and that is totally untenable for those of your persuasion since lies are the bane of dedicated liberals.

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The article by Gene Lyons is shown below. It is published under the fair use doctrine to show the nature of the man’s work using name calling and promoting the liberal ideology better known as lies.

       Right-wing media machine coming off tracks

       Gene Lyons

    With the 2008 presidential election a year away, Republicans are running on empty. Polls show President Bush sinking to historic lows. Fewer than one-quarter of Americans (25 percent in a recent survey) approve of his performance. Most wouldn’t mind if Bush would simply go away, provided he’d take that snarling misanthrope Dick Cheney with him.
    Alas, it’s not going to happen. Whether out of conviction, habit or fear of Bush cult primary voters, congressional Republicans march in lockstep behind the White House—keeping the Iraq war going and sustaining even Bush’s veto of SCHIP children’s health insurance, supported by 81 percent of Americans, according to a CBS poll.
    Meanwhile, the GOP’s presidential hopefuls look like they’re auditioning for an AARP production of Snow White and the Seven Dorks, featuring Sen. Hillary Clinton as the princess, with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan competing for the role of wicked stepmother.
    Do they even want the job? The latest Republican presidential debate was scheduled opposite Game 7 of the American League playoffs, NFL Sunday night football, and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” I doubt even people paid to watch it, watched it live.
    Deservedly or not, Democrats, as the only other major party available, are wallowing in campaign money. According to NPR, Clinton has stashed $50 million in her presidential hope chest. That’s more than three times the cash Rudy Giuliani has on hand.
    Eager for White House access, many corporate donors are betting on Democrats. The Washington Post reports that even some major Bush contributors have defected to the other side. Barring a bidding war between the manufacturers of Cialis and Viagra, it appears the GOP nominee will have substantially less money to spend than the Democrat—unprecedented in the TV era.
    Come to think of it, wouldn’t Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Giuliani or Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thompson look terrific holding hands in those his n’ hers outdoor bathtubs?
    But I digress. If Republican officeholders have been behaving incoherently, the antics of the party’s media propagandists reek of desperation. “[T]he mighty right-wing media machine,” writes Eric Boehlert in his invaluable column for Media Matters, “is in the process of driving American conservatism right off a cliff. The loudmouths whom conservatives have supported for years, and whom Republican politicians have used for political gain, have become increasingly unhinged. And their recent public antics are drawing more and more disbelieving stares.”
    Ann Coulter’s need to attract attention to herself and those slapdash concoctions she calls “books” approaches the pathological. Not contented with offending the Jewish host of a CNBC program by describing her ideal America as for Christians only, Jews having been “perfected” out of existence, Coulter “clarified” her remarks on Michael Medved’s program.
    So here’s her apologia: “Jews don’t accept the New Testament, so, you know, as long as we’re playing this new sport of ‘he who is offended first wins,’ if anyone’s going to be offended by anyone else’s religion, the Jews believe that my savior, a Jew, was a raving lunatic, and you don’t see me sniffling and crying.”
    Actually, crying about America’s poor, oppressed majority is Coulter’s whole act. I expect she’ll eventually end up exhibiting herself at rural county fairs, possibly in the same tent with Goliath, the 5,000-pound steer.
    Then there’s Rush Limbaugh, the bombastic radio yakker with his vast audience of gullible souls with nothing better to do all afternoon than listen to a pompous braggart spout disinformation. Another crybaby, Limbaugh’s not man enough to admit he shouldn’t have used the term “phony soldiers” when someone in uniform disagreed with him about Iraq. It’s supposedly the First Amendment they’re fighting for.
    So he posted a transcript of his supposed remarks on his Web site, played an edited tape on his radio program, according to Media Matters, and compared a wounded Iraq veteran who appeared in a TV ad criticizing him to a suicide bomber. Then GOP congressmen ran to his rescue and promptly sponsored legislation praising the blubbering faker’s patriotism.
    Don’t believe me? Well, check out mediamatters.org, which obsessively documented the entire ludicrous affair.
    But the real prize-winner has to be columnist and Fox News personality Michelle Malkin. Bush, see, vetoed a bill bringing private health insurance to 10 million kids allegedly because America can’t afford the $35 billion cost. Then he demanded an additional $46 billion to pour into the Iraqi sinkhole, along with $150 billion already allocated this year.
    Democrats let a 12-year-old boy named Graeme Frost deliver a radio address telling how SCHIP helped save his life after an auto accident grievously injured him and his sister. Malkin and a posse of rightwing bloggers did what Republicans always do: attacked the messenger, falsely characterizing his hardworking Baltimore family as wealthy freeloaders, and deriding the boy as a “human shield” for Democrats. Needless to say, Limbaugh also joined in the fun.
    That’s right, they smeared a brain damaged child. Any questions?