“Seek Yahweh while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him. Turn to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon.”

Isaiah 55: 6-7

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Lies are Lies and We Need to Say So

While I lived in Virginia, The Washington Post was my daily paper and The Atlantic was my favorite magazine. I looked forward to reading both, but things have changed since I retired and moved to South Carolina 18 years ago.

In remember the mid-1990s when homosexuality was making its way into the mainstream of public life. As a news article, The Washington Post ran a piece about a problem at Fairfax High School in Northern Virginia. Fairfax, VA is a suburb of Washington, D.C., and it’s a microcosm of the D.C. community. In the article, an administrator at Fairfax High was lamenting the fact that “being gay” had become a fad at the school and that large numbers of Fairfax High students were declaring that they were gay to be part of the in crowd. The administrator talked about “being gay” as a problem that needed to be solved, not as a fact of life that people must accept.

That was almost 30 years ago. Imagine what would happen today if a school administrator at any school in America, not just a school in the D.C. suburbs, made a statement like that. He or she would be fired immediately for suggesting that “being gay” is a personal choice and that it’s very much like any other fad in most respects. I believe a person making a statement like that in the Post today would receive death threats, probably several of them.

At about the same time that articled appeared in the Post, The Atlantic published a lengthy article that looked at the scientific data on the so-called “gay gene”. The article concluded that there is no scientific evidence to support the claim that “being gay” is anything but a personal choice. The Atlantic article was a powerful indictment of “gay gene” theorists, and it was especially significant since the article’s author was gay. He made that point very clearly at the outset.

Thirty years later, there is still no solid scientific evidence of the biological reality of a “gay gene”. The existence of such a gene remains hypothetical, but in the public arena it’s discussed as a fact, and anyone who questions that hypothesis is portrayed by Democrats and the media as a homophobe who is just one step above a Neanderthal.

Like The Old Gray Mare, The Atlantic ain’t what it used to be. Yesterday, it published an article by staff writer David Graham titled “Pennsylvania Voters Have No Good Options”. In the article, Graham talks about the dismal performance of John Fetterman in a televised debate with Mehmet Oz, Dr. Oz. The men are running against each other for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Fetterman is a Democrat. Dr. Oz is a Republican.

In May, Fetterman had a stroke. It affected his cognitive functioning and his ability to communicate. Still, Democrats decided that Fetterman was their best hope for winning the Senate seat, and they stuck with him. In the televised debate a few days ago, the only televised debate between the two candidates, Fetterman looked like a man who is not up to the task of being a Senator. As I said, his performance during the debate was dismal. That view is shared by people in Pennsylvania of all political persuasions.

Graham was alarmed by what he saw during the debate. He thinks that our democracy is at stake, because Pennsylvania voters might elect a Republican to the Senate and deny Democrats the majority in the Senate that he thinks they deserve. In Graham’s worldview, electing a Republican is tantamount to destroying our republic. If that’s not partisan politics, I don’t know what is. It’s certainly not journalism.

Below are Graham’s opening remarks in the article. They give you a good idea about his objectivity and his perspective on what he thinks is at stake if Fetterman loses to Dr. Oz. Keep in mind that Graham is a so-called “journalist” at one of the most highly regarded magazines in the country covering politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science:

A fluke medical crisis has thrown one of the most consequential elections into disarray—with serious consequences for the entire country.

No one knows quite how the stroke that Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman suffered in May might affect his performance as a U.S. senator if he wins an election next month. But his halting, sometimes painful performance last night in the sole debate in his race against Republican Mehmet Oz last night showed that he’s not outwardly the candidate who won the Democratic nomination earlier this year.

The answers here are simply unavailable. His campaign insists that he is cognitively healthy but struggles with processing speech aurally and orally, a judgment no ordinary voter would be able to make from watching the debate alone. (As Fetterman recovers, he has sometimes performed better on the campaign trail and in one-on-one situations.) The campaign has declined to release full medical results, but although more transparency from public officials is important and doctors can assess Fetterman’s current health and make educated forecasts about his recovery, they aren’t seers, either.

Yet the peculiarities of the American electoral system—and this election—mean assessing the race purely from the perspective of Fetterman’s ability is impossible. The choice is not between Fetterman and another Democrat or a candidate with similar policy positions; it’s between Fetterman and Oz, an exponent of Trumpism and other quack cures. Moreover, the result in Pennsylvania could determine which party controls the Senate, with huge implications not only for the next two years of policy but even for the future of democracy in the United States.

Graham reminds me of Henny-Penny, an addle brained fairytale chicken. When an acorn fell on her head, she thought the sky was falling, and she rushed to tell the king about it hoping that he would know what to do.

You would have to be naïve, ignorant, or stupid not to see through Graham’s “analysis” of the debate between Fetterman and Oz. He is as transparent as glass. He believes that our democracy is at stake if Pennsylvania voters elect Dr. Oz, because he’s a Donald Trump supporter and a doctor who believes in “Trumpism and other quack cures”.

Graham is pimping for the Democrat Party, and he did it in The Atlantic. Shame on The Atlantic’s editors and the publisher for letting him get away with it. They have turned a reputable magazine into a sleazy purveyor of political propaganda.

I know very little about Dr. Oz. I know even less about John Fetterman. I do know this, though: Oz has a large, enthusiastic following among people who are healthcare conscious. Reading Graham’s article added nothing to my understanding about the Senate race in Pennsylvania. All he did was confirm what was painfully obvious during the debate: Fetterman has serious health issues that impair his cognitive functioning and his ability to communicate.

I am forced to draw this regrettable conclusion: For people of Graham’s ilk, it’s socially and professionally acceptable to lay aside any sense of objectivity and fairness if support for Donald Trump is involved, even though President Trump accomplished more in 4 years as president than Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton combined accomplished in 24 years.

Democrats and their operatives in the media, people like David Graham, will say, “That statement is outlandish.” Well, it’s not. Allow me to explain:

1. Trump brought back manufacturing to America. That was long overdue. It resulted in more jobs, better jobs, and higher paying jobs for American workers. Kudos to President Trump. That needed to be done, and he did it despite strong opposition from Democrats and their operatives in the media. To them, Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” became a source of derision, and Trump supporters wearing their MAGA hats were physically attacked by “liberal progressive” thugs while Democrats and their operatives in the media rejoiced. It was a sickening display of barbarism. The attackers were the same types of people who worked for Adolf Hitler. So, who are the fascists?
2. Trump’s foreign policy moves were spot on. He told our NATO allies that they needed to pay their fair share for their own defense. Many European leaders responded hatefully, because they have been sucking the American tit since World War II ended. Paying for their defense as they promised to do is anathema to them. Today, with Vladimir Putin targeting Europe in every imaginable way, Trump looks like a genius, but to David Graham and people like him, Trump is the antithesis of a great leader. Graham and people like him must ignore reality to draw that conclusion.
3. During his tenure as president, Donald Trump made America energy independent, and our country became the leading exporter of oil and gas in the world. Energy prices were low, because we had a surplus.
4. Joe Biden gave all that away during his first few days in office by attacking oil and gas producers in the U.S. The inevitable result was higher prices for oil and gas and higher prices for every product and service that uses energy. That’s every product and service, so inflation soared. The Fed had to raise interest rates dramatically to tame the inflation beast. As a result, the housing industry went into a freefall, American consumers who use debt are facing much higher interest payments, and the stock market fell precipitously. Those things negatively affected every American, but it was a crushing blow to older Americans.
5. Trump’s Middle East peace initiatives will become the stuff of legend. His Abraham Accords would have won a Nobel Peace Prize for anyone except Donald Trump. Joe Biden tossed all that aside, too, and Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia are turning away from the United States at a very bad time.

Trumpism was just what our country and the world needed, and President Trump delivered the goods. Joe Biden and leaders in the Democrat Party are still apoplectic when it comes to Donald Trump, because he proved that you don’t have to be a political flunky or a career politician to get things done in Washington. Trump made all of them look like incompetent boobs, and Joe Biden looks like the Boob in Chief.

Candidly, I think John Fetterman was more impressive in his debate with Dr. Oz than Joe Biden is any time he steps in front of a camera. Biden’s cognitive functioning has been suspect for a very long time, and his dementia only made matters worse. The United States under Biden’s leadership is like a rudderless ship.

I’m getting sick and tired of being fed a diet of crap by Democrats and their operatives in the media. If our democracy is a stake, and I think it may be, it’s because they are feeding us lies and telling us that it’s the truth. Lies are lies, and we need to say so.

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“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me — just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father — and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. The reason My Father loves Me is that I lay down My life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.”

John 10: 14-18

See “His Name is Yahweh”.