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Facts? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Facts

Rep. Peter King (R, N.Y.) seemed to be rehearsing a new version of the scene from Treasure of Sierra Madre when “Gold Hat” proclaims “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!” In the new version King says that he doesn’t need facts in claiming that President Obama went on an “apology tour” in the Middle East despite the conclusion by independent fact checkers that he never apologized or said I am sorry on the tour. King barked “I don’t care what fact check says.” It appears that, according to Santorum below, the GOP has also decided to give up on trying to attract “smart people.”

Here is the exchange:

O’BRIEN: There are fact checks. You may not care, but they’re a fact checker.

KING: No. Soledad. Any commonsense interpretation of those speeches, the president’s apologizing for the American position. That’s the apology tour. That’s the way it’s interpreted in the Middle East. If I go over and say that the U.S. has violated its principles, that the United States has not shown respect for Islam, that’s an apology. How else can it be interpreted?

O’BRIEN: I think plenty of people are interpreting it as a nuanced approach to diplomacy is how some people are interpreting it. So I don’t think that everybody agrees it’s apology.

Finally, someone who is willing to liberate politics from tyrannical hold of facts.

This seems to dovetail well with the statement of former presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA) who told an audience this weekend that “We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will never have the elite smart people on our side, because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do.” Yes, those pesky “smart people” are always such a drag.

I hereby nominate Alfonso Bedoya for president . . .

Source: Think Progress

59 thoughts on “Facts? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Facts”

  1. ID707,

    I didn’t understand most of it. I’m a long way from California, but the leaves are just starting to turn here.

  2. Matt,

    Thanks? for the link. Latest post in 2011. Maybe there aren’t so many, or they died in the desert. Lively place. Cool reading Swedish on an “American” site.

  3. Jeez, that was the longest friggin’ link I’ve ever seen. Will look at it later.
    Meanwhile, how are the winters?
    Today if piss rained hard two times and the sun came out briefly two times. Are the birches gold yet?

  4. idealist707 1, September 18, 2012 at 4:51 pm

    OK, I’ll bite. Which is the Badger State?

    Wisconsin
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    idealist707 1, September 18, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    I googled. Cheating. I thought you were the dairy state. Thus cow would be more appropriate. How many etnic swedes do you have?

    California thinks they’re the dairy state now.

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.swedesincalifornia.com%2F&ei=heFYULeALsPu0gHI84DQAQ&usg=AFQjCNF6FE7nMnTf8-ToWsF1iT–zC5WhQ

  5. They all just repeat what they read on the wing nut email chains. My suspicion is that these ‘Liar emails’ are crafted in Karl Roves office and sent out to circulate endlessly among the true believers of lies.

    It is interesting to have conservative friends, people with absolutely no connection to each other send me the same wing nut emails almost simultaneously. With the flags, and stars and puppies and babies et al- total bull. They were successful under Bush at creating their own reality, and they are sticking to it.

    At least the Dems do not do this.

  8. nick spinelli 1, September 18, 2012 at 3:47 pm

    ID, I live in the Badger State.
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    When did you move to the Badger State? I’ve been here since 1996.

  9. This seems to dovetail well with the statement of former presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA) who told an audience this weekend that “We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will never have the elite smart people on our side, because they believe they should have the power to tell you what to do.”
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    Let’s see. Don’t the Republicans think they’re the elite smart people? Who has all the oil money?

  11. Leejcarrol,

    Even Annapolis, and by estension all, make mistakes.
    Judging job applicants is the most fraught with guaranteed failure duty to be done. Just one example.

    And we all know that we, who vote for a legacy party, are not very smart either. But, what the hell there
    are even odds that we end on the nominal winning side.
    Changing hats does not mean changing our course however.
    We vote our convictions and get screwed unless we belong to the one percent.

  15. This is consistent with Romney?Ryan campaing mode. You have proven what we said about the Prez welfare to work and he wants to remove the work part is a lie but hey we will keep reopeating it, enough folks will soon it accept it as truth because we have repeated it so often.” Same for this crap.
    Sad thing is I know a smart person, went to Annapolis who swallows all of this hook, line, and sinker so at least anecdotally not all smart people are for Obama.

  16. Rafflaw,

    He knows his base and his money givers. Playing to hate is very popular. But is he worse than Ryan. Of course to be fair, you said he was “one of the worst”.

    Hope my intent is clear, ie make a joke, but not at your expense.

  19. Rep. King just hates it when the facts get in his way. He is one of the most dangerous members of Congress and he needs a new profession.

  20. Peter, “Eraserhead” King, the material supporter of IRA terrorism, doesn’t believe in facts? Heaven forfend!

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