Guy Smith | October 28, 2011
Fear is effective and entertaining. If you don’t believe people are amused by fear, just watch any Hollywood horror film or a presidential primary.
In my book Shooting The Bull, a handy guide on propaganda analysis, of the 71 forms of fibs, lies, canards, casuistry, flummery, tergiversation, artifice and tarradiddle, the Lie of Fear was foremost. [...]
Guy Smith | July 30, 2011
One radio talk show host recently asked me to name the top five myths about gun control.
My response was “Why discuss only 0.0001% of the lies?”
Statistical snideness aside, the question provoked unnecessary thinking inside my convoluted cranium. It would be easy to rattle off several fabrications about firearms, numerous misinformation points involving numbers, or even [...]
Guy Smith | June 29, 2011
Why is California an intellectually backward state?
The amalgamated mindset of the Golden State views itself as progressive, leading, positively superhuman. For California to fall behind 82 percent of the nation on any topic, especially one where the lives of its citizens are concerned, makes thoughtful folk reevaluate state-wide sensibilities. For California to be clueless, to [...]
Guy Smith | June 17, 2011
Representative Gerry Connolly is odder than your average orb, though his increasing girth and gravitational pull might be adversely affecting the space-time continuum and thus distorting reality.
In recent hearings on governmental criminality, Connolly conned the conference by using several types of lies documented in Shooting The Bull to either protect his party’s leader or assist [...]
Guy Smith | June 15, 2011
“You’ve got people who are dead, you have weapons that are missing and you have an administration that doesn’t seem to want to take any accountability for it.”
When does a screw-up become a cover-up? As the details concerning operation Fast and Furious unfold, we see sickening similarities with the most infamous of 20th century scandals [...]
