{"id":17281,"date":"2010-11-22T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=17281"},"modified":"2010-11-22T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:41:29","slug":"the-fifteen-biggest-lies-about-the-economy-and-everything-else-the-right-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-taxes-jobs-and-corporate-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/11\/22\/the-fifteen-biggest-lies-about-the-economy-and-everything-else-the-right-doesnt-want-you-to-know-about-taxes-jobs-and-corporate-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy: And Everything Else the Right Doesn&#8217;t Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-112310\/2010_11_23_holland.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-112310\/2010_11_23_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT-e_TqAV_D3GwpUrTAETn-xZa84rJrRUPXsk88F1M_6fngpLdsqQ\" alt=\"joshua holland\" \/>The non-partisan fact checking organization Politifact effectively debunks dishonest claims by politicians and pundits in the public discourse. The Daily Kos recently ran a statistical analysis of Politifact&#8217;s results and concluded that &#8220;Republicans and Conservatives are significantly more likely to make false or dishonest statements than Democrats and liberals, both as politicians and non-politicians&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2009\/10\/16\/793026\/-Analysis-of-PolitiFact:-GOP-Conservatives-Significantly-Less-Honest\">Click here<\/a> to read Daily Kos Analysis). Indeed, conservatives often exaggerate claims or say the opposite is true of a fact to justify, in particular their economic policies, as explained in a new book by Alternet senior writer and editor, Joshua Holland: The Fifteen Biggest Lies About the Economy And Everything Else The Right Doesn&#8217;t Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America. From conflating huge corporations with small businesses, to killing finance regulations by audaciously casting them as bank bailouts, Holland&#8217;s book is a handbook for progressive activists and responsible journalists. Economist and author of &#8220;It Takes A Pillage,&#8221; Nomi Prins said &#8220;Joshua Holland&#8217;s brilliant, data rich, accessible, and in-your-face book &#8230; should be required reading for every American livid about floating a political-financial system that benefits powerful institutions and megalomaniac leaders.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Joshua Holland, senior writer and editor at Alternet<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-partisan fact checking organization Politifact effectively debunks dishonest claims by politicians and pundits in the public discourse. The Daily Kos recently ran a statistical analysis of Politifact&#8217;s results and concluded that &#8220;Republicans and Conservatives are significantly more likely to make false or dishonest statements than Democrats and liberals, both as politicians and non-politicians&#8221; (Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}