Here is a detailed description of the
many errors in the above HowTheWorldWorks video on YouTube:
Again, in this video, you claim I "deliberately distort the
facts," but, not only do you fail to show any factual distortions on my
part, but you actually make multiple factual errors of your own in the attempt.
You also provide NO LINKS in the sidebar or in the video backing up any of the
claims you made (unlike my video you criticized which backed up everything with
evidence).
At 1:00, you claim it is "not true" when I said that
"Republican Doug Hoffman left his local Republican Party for being too
moderate to run in the conservative party," claiming that Doug Hoffman
couldn't run as a Republican because there was no primary, but, the error here
is yours, not mine, because I never claimed there was a primary and Doug
Hoffman was one of several Republicans who competed in 4 regional caucuses
before the local county chairs selected Dede Scozzafava as the GOP candidate,
See, e.g.
http://www.pressrepublican.com/0100_news/local_story_198220940.html
Yet, you FALSELY claim Doug Hoffman "never left the Republican
party" at 1:01.
Will you correct YOUR error?
Then, starting at 1:10, you try to claim Dede Scozzafava is not a
moderate Republican, without giving any sources for any of the claims you make
and without addressing her position in the NY GOP leadership or addressing that
her more moderate Republican positions, including some you mention, are also
balanced by her more right wing positions like her support for keeping the Bush
tax cuts and opposition to cap and trade. MOST IMPORTANTLY, nothing in your
analysis actually addresses the my main point of my video that the SPLIT in the
GOP, with rights wingers like Palin and Pawlenty purging moderates, is a
lasting problem for the GOP which is not contradicted by your repeated
references to a "few thousand votes" (e.g. at 1:40 and 2:13). If the
GOP had not split, this district, which includes parts that have been
represented by a Whig more recently than a Democrat, would have stayed
Republican.
At 1:59, you emphasize that David Plouffe "is not a disinterested
party" even though I had just
explained his background, but you never address the main point of my
video that the SPLIT in the GOP, with rights wingers like Palin and Pawlenty
purging moderates, is a lasting problem for the GOP which is not contradicted
by calling it a "fluke," or, again, making a reference to a "few
thousand votes" at 2:14.
At 2:25 you say you don't know if I am "lying to myself or being
dishonest" without ever showing I was dishonest about anything, but, of course, you still haven't even backed up
that claim you made MONTHS ago that I am a "liar" and, after changing
your explanation multiple times, you still have not shown ONE thing I said that
was even untrue. Perhaps you should apologize for calling me a
"liar," Lee?
In any case, at 2:45, you attempt to rebut what I said about Dede
Scozzafava, who,"betrayed by so many national Republican leaders, returned
the favor and endorsed the Democrat," but your supposed rebuttal just
mentions Republican leaders who endorsed Scozzafava, missing the point, again,
that there was a a SPLIT in the GOP, and, again, ignoring what I said about
"national Republican leaders like Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty."
Next, at 3:16, you attempt to rebut what I said about NY's 23rd
Congressional including "territory not represented by a Democrat since before
the Civil War" by referring to "Michael R. McNulty" which is
particularly dishonest because I already rebutted this rebuttal in an argument
we had in the comment section of one of your video "Pigs Fly in NY"
that you can find at:
http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=XJoDC26dCIo&fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3DXJoDC26dCIo
So, as I pointed out to you before you even made this video:
"McNulty is STILL in the US Congress, redistricted into NY's
21st. AGAIN, as you may not be aware, redistricting happens every 10 years and,
with redistricting, NY's 23rd was 1 of only 2 districts in the entire US that
had some territorynot represented by a Democrat for >150 years. In fact,
more than 60% of the people in NY's 23rd live where no Democrat has won in the
20th Century" and
"The current NY-23 looks a lot like the old NY-24. McNulty (and,
to correct myself, McNulty left Congress in 2009) represented very little of
what's now NY-23, just a sliver in Oswego County. More than 60% of the people
now in NY-23 live whereno Democrat has won in > 100 years"
At 3:40, you again attempt to rebut me saying that "this phenomenon of leading national
conservatives coming into a district to reject the candidate chosen by the
representatives of the local Republican party in that district, could set the
tone for the future of the Republican party" but, again, you never address the main point of my video
that the SPLIT in the GOP, with rights wingers like Palin and Pawlenty purging
moderates, is a lasting problem for the GOP which is not contradicted by,
again, calling it a "fluke," or, again, making a reference to a
"few thousand votes."
At, 3:58 you falsely claim regarding Dede Scozzafava that "nobody
thought she was a centrist." This claim is factually false. See, e.g.,
Will you correct YOUR error?
At 4:20, you claim regarding Doug Hoffman that "if Scozzafava had
not been in the race he would have won the whole thing," but you give no
evidence to support this claim which is actually contradicted by your repeated
claim that Scozzafava was politically to the left of the Democrat which, if
true, would mean her votes would most likely go to the Democrat.
Starting at 5:16 you attempt to rebut Ron Brownstein's point that the
purging of moderates extends beyond what happened in NY's 23rd (he cites
incidents with Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen Charles Grassley), but your response
just cites the election results in NJ and Virginia that I clearly mentioned at
the beginning of my video and you never address the examples of Sen. Specter and Sen. Grassley and, again,
you never address the main point of my video that the SPLIT in the GOP, with
rights wingers like Palin and Pawlenty purging moderates, is a lasting problem
for the GOP which is not contradicted by, again, calling it a
"fluke," or, again, making a reference to a "few thousand
votes."
At 5:52, you attempt to rebut what I said about having "local
candidates to meet the needs of local constituents without being put in a
straight jacket by outsiders from the national party," by saying that
"There was no primary. Local people didn't get a choice," but, again,
I never claimed there was a primary and YOUR claim that local Republicans did
not get a choice is, again, false, See, e.g., again,
http://www.pressrepublican.com/0100_news/local_story_198220940.html
Will you correct YOUR error?
In the remaining minute or so of your video, you do not even attempt
to show any fact I distorted though you repeat some of the claims that I've
just shown do not address the main point of my video that the SPLIT in the GOP,
with rights wingers like Palin and Pawlenty purging moderates, is a lasting
problem for the GOP which is not contradicted by, again, calling it a
"fluke," or, again, making a reference to a "few thousand
votes" (as you repeat, again, at the end of the video).
I hope that helps clear up you misunderstanding and
thanks for the video :-)
thanks for the video :-)