Stern has pointed out Orly's misapprehension that raising a reasonable doubt is her best strategy as an attorney, and
esseff44 has pointed out that the court is not her audience. She is a propagandist and that alone. All the evidence I have seen suggests that Orly intends only to raise enough "reasonable doubt" that some people will decide not to vote for President Obama, for whatever part of her pack of lies and stupidity they choose to believe.
So the question is whether we are following an optimum strategy for making her fail. For some citizens, demonstrations of the lack of evidence and the fallacies of her arguments before courts and not-quite-courts are needed. TFB is great at that. Others probably pay more attention to Colbert than they do to the whole of her dismal legal record. Colbert is outstanding. Still others only attend to rumors posted on the Web, particularly to "strong rumors" (whatever that means). TFB and a number of private blogs linked from TFB do a great job of destroying the rumors if the people read them with understanding. How about the rest of America? Are the mass media enough to reach them and teach them? I doubt it. That assumes that people pay attention to them. It also assumes that the mass media do their job. Rachel does it very well for
an audience of less than three hundred thousand viewers.
Maybe it's the President's campaign that has the job to fight the rumors, but that seemed to fan the flames in 2008. The President should not stoop to denying rumors except in humorous ways, as at the Al Smith Dinner in 2008:
Quote:
"Who is Barack Obama? Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the Planet Earth. Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president. If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome."
Whether that reaches the notorious grandmother in Orange County is questionable. She might see that humor as sacrilegious.
Is there anything more that we on TFB can do to destroy the rumors that Orly tries so fervently to spread? What is the best strategy for fighting back against propaganda?