Greetings, y'all listening to Podcast No. 163 of Blast the Right.

I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.

Today, a subject that initially appears not that sexy, I'm talking about budget deficits and the national debt.

But, you'll see how the cold hard facts reveal right wingers at their lying and destructive worst.

As is often the case, the right accuses others of that which they're most guilty of themselves.

And you'll hear, it turns out that there's a strong moral, social justice component involved here as well.

Let's get right into it. Your sources today include the New York Times, Media Matters.org, The Washington Post, NewsBusters.org, TalkingPointsMemo.com, the website of the Congressional Budget Office, WhiteHouse.gov, CommonDreams.org, and FoxNews.com.

In the last couple of podcasts you've heard about, obviously life and death issues like Haiti and healthcare.

When I started looking into today's topic, federal budget deficits and the national debt.

It didn't seem like any kind of a similar moral screaming issue, and I figured I'd just be putting together a short segment.

But the more I got into it, the matter I got about the right wing's blatant lies in hypocrisy, and the mainstream media's silent complicity in the right's propaganda campaign.

And you may be as surprised as I was at how it winds up being, yes, a screaming life and death moral issue.

I'm going to stretch out here and give this subject the attention it deserves.

So why don't you sit back, relax, and stay for the ride. I think you'll be glad you did.

Whenever I see or hear a right wing or lie, I wonder to myself, would they dare say that face-to-face to someone who they know understands the real facts?

Someone who will throw the truth back at them with full force and obliterate them?

I always imagine me, talking back to the likes of Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly.

Now of course, Hannity and O'Reilly do have nominal non-right wingers on their programs.

They have on their shows conservative dems, meek timid dems, dems who don't even seem to know the basic facts needed to refute the right's lies, cow-towing to stay on the program dems.

Anyway, recently a right-winger spattered off a talking point lie about Barack Obama directly to the face of the one person in the world who obviously would not take kindly to a lie about Barack Obama.

Who did the right-winger tell the lie directly to face-to-face?

Barack Obama! Let me set this up.

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