Virtually anything can be treated as true

I agree with this blogger's take on the long gun registry. Warning: Supposedly, it's an "R" rated blog, but for the life of me I don't know why.

If there's anything that Canadians can learn from observing the most fervently ideological amongst its media personalities, it's that virtually anything can be treated as true, so long as it's repeated often and insistently enough.


The most recent case in point has been the exaggerated controversy over the Conservative Party's move to -- with the support of MPs from the Liberal Party and the NDP -- abolish the federal long gun registry............