Quotes: Opinion & Fact

[Don]

Considering the times we are experiencing , along with the resulting controversies :

Source: Journal Inquirer, Manchester CT, August 1, Page 18, Editorial:

" You're entitled to your own opinions. You're not entitled to your own facts "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan ( Senator-NY ) to a 1994 electoral opponent on a WNBC debate in New York.

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On the other hand, even facts are subject to opinion. The truth is very hard to find and to know.

[Dan40]

Nowadays, even the truth is hard to believe!

[Ron61]

Isn't there an old saying thet The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction?

Ron

[Don]

Source: NY Sunday Times, Aug 2, Clark Hoyt, Public Editor

Clark was commenting on the high number of errors in the Times reporting on the life and obituary of Walter Cronkite:

" Chip Cronkite seemed philosophical about all the errors. He said his parents had a joke ashtray with the inscription " :

" Just give me the facts: I'll mix 'em up when I quote you "

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The following article may be of interest....

With All Things, Facts & Truth Matter

http://www.newmediajournal.us/staff/...9/06122009.htm

For example......

Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.” – Samuel Johnson

Few things are more important in life than the facts and the truth. Ironically, the quest for both has waned over generations. Today, fact and truth suffer the narcissism of a generation of self-indulgent ideologues who have sought to shape the world to their belief system, doing so armed with little more than falsely elevated self-esteem. The result has been to bring our great nation to a divide not seen since the US Civil War; a divide of politics, ideology and culture; a divide that threatens our Republic’s very existence.

Samuel Johnson’s adage about truth being a casualty of war is not exclusive to wars of nations, it is applicable to wars of all breeds: cultural, violent, ideological and political. In fact, today’s American culture places more worth on the delivery of words than on the credibility of words. A gifted orator can mesmerize the citizenry into reacting to a melodic tone and artful inflection and into caring little for the accuracy of the statements being made. He can pass impossibilities as realities using hollow promises, promises that serve as distractions to truth and fact.

Truth be told, today, the American public is more interested in being captivated by the “bright shiny” distraction, being entertained by the slickly delivered sleight-of-hand rhetoric of “hope” and “change,” than they are in gathering the facts in an effort to better understand reality.

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Future historians and archeologists are going to have a field day with American society in the latter part of the 20th century and the early part of the 21st. We are overwhelmed with a nonstop supply of half-truths, propaganda, utter BS and outright lies that they will have to sort through and weed out!! The legacy we are leaving behind, as technology grew and increased our ability to access information; we, as a society got progressively dumber and fell for some of the slickest flim-flammers known to mankind!

God Save America.

[Don]

Some political humor ...........

Source: Wall St Journal Opinion Review & Outlook, Aug 13th, Billy and the BeanStalk:

" It's one thing to accept the Capitol Hill advice that if you're not at the table, you're on the menu .................. "

[Wayne Maybury]

Originally Posted by Ron61

Isn't there an old saying thet The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction?

Ron

I have always believed that there are 3 sides to every story; one side, the other side, and the truth which is probably somewhere in between.

Wayne

[Maurice Johnson]

Mark Twain "--- this report of my death was an exageration"