The right wing and fox have used fear to gain influence in America

My opponent has brought up a few different points that he characterizes as "fear mongering". So let's look at the definition shall we? FEAR MONGERING: spreading discreditable, misrepresentative information designed to induce fear and apprehension. It's my position that two of the points that he brings up cannot be considered in this light, Healthcare and WMD. Why? Because each of the positions of the right are valid arguments and therefore cannot be considered as such. Take health care for instance. In 2006 the federal government spent over $614 billion on just Medicaid, Medicare and other health related expenses, almost ï¿½ of our entire federal budget for that year. (http://en.wikipedia.org...) Let me put it another way, the federal government spent more on healthcare in 2006 than they collected in corporate income taxes, excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, customs duties COMBINED. And that's just for seniors, and poor people. What's going to happen to our budget and tax system if the federal government is paying for all of the nation's healthcare expenses? What is that going to do to our healthcare system? It will completely destroy the best healthcare system in the world. So this is not fear mongering. My opponent mentioned WMD. When every intelligence agency on the planet says there is WMD in Iraq, when every politician on both sides of the aisle say there is WMD in Iraq, when every leader in every industrialized country on the planet says that there is WMD in Iraq, then it is not fear mongering. So let's look at some serious fear mongering. In the 2004 election, John Kerry told a Des Moines, IA newspaper that President Bush could renew the military draft. http://www.cbsnews.com... Now a bill did come before Congress to renew the draft. Who presented it? None other than Rep. Charlie Rangle a DEMOCRAT. For as long as I can remember, liberals have been telling the American voters that seniors will end up homeless and eating dog food if they vote for a republican. Oh and that they won't receive their Social Security checks and all sorts of other rot. This IS fear mongering. My favorite bit of leftist fear mongering is when they call conservatives "Nazis". This really shows their intelligence as they weren't conservatives, they were socialists. The National Socialist Party to be exact. This would qualify as fear mongering in the worst way. Voter fraud is also a repeated scare tactic by the Dems. Yelling voter fraud where there is no evidence of such, employing lawyers and filing lawsuits days before elections is a regular exercise of the left. Another favorite scare tactic of the Left pertains to the federal budget. If a federal program is scheduled to receive say a 10% raise in funding, but when the time comes only receives a 5% INCREASE in funding, then the Right has "slashed" the budget of said federal program. Implying that the people who receive benefits of said program aren't going to get their money. Yet the money has actually been increased. How exactly does this work? We can also talk about former CNN chief Eason Jordon. In January 2005, during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jordan said that American troops were targeting journalists in response to a remark from Barney Frank about dead journalists being collateral damage Iraq. He later resigned because he couldn't prove his statements. I could go on like this ad infinitum. Does the right use scare tactics? Certainly. But not as regularly as the Left does.