In RNC Speech, Paul Ryan Lies “7 or 8″ Times, Accuses Obama of Killing Debt Commission That He Himself Killed
If you’ve made the news rounds today, then you know how Paul Ryan’s speech has been received by the media; good, but woefully dishonest. As a matter
of fact, the Washington Post described Ryan’s speech as breathtakingly dishonest:
Yesterday, at an ABC News panel, Mitt Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said, “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” Wednesday’s speech from Paul Ryan certainly took that disdain for truth to heart, as his address was filled with falsehoods from start to finish.
This from Gawker, which took issues with CNN pundits praising a speech that they themselves admitted was wrought with factual errors:
“A powerful speech” with only “seven or eight” facts to dispute? Sounds like a winner.
Erin Burnett agreed — “There will be issues with some of the facts. But it motivated people.” And in the end, isn’t “precise, clear, and passionate” more important than truthful?
And Salon.com has already done a thorough takedown of all of Ryan’s lies, including the one where he accused Obama of killing the debt commission that he himself killed:
He attacked Obama for failing to keep open a Janesville GM plant that closed under Bush in 2008. He hit him for a credit-rating downgrade that S&P essentially blamed on GOP intransigence. He claimed that all taxpayers got from the 2009 stimulus was “more debt,” when most got a tax cut (and the stimulus is known to have saved between 1.4 and 3.3 million jobs). He derided the president for walking away from the Simpson Bowles commission deficit-cutting recommendations when Ryan himself, a commission member, voted against those recommendations.
It would seem that no one bought what Ryan was selling, since even Fox News called him out. It is unprecedented that almost every media outlet has come out this morning recounting Ryan’s lies in his RNC speech. That will be the legacy of the Romney-Ryan ticket.
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I have never known a Republican to tell the truth, ever. In fact, most of the failures of the Obama Administration can be directly traced to the Republican Party’s lack of cooperation and condern for the American people. Lying is in their nature.
Regardless, of the party; caucasoids LIE…PERIOD!!! It’s in their nature to lie with their FORKED TONGUES. We are dealing with snakes!
WAKE UP FOLKS; THIS AIN’T NOTHING BUT A GAME!
This is what’s wrong with politics amount several thousands of other reasons. But their should be some type of mandate that when you misconstrued or twist lies about your opponent to your advantage you automatically give up your right to run for office! Can you imagine what our poliical officials would be like if that was case?!
You can’t possibly believe the Democrats don’t do the exact same thing.
The difference is the President has the media in his pocket, and the problem with this is one can never know the truth. So we believe all that we are told! (Thus the reason for 97% of the black vote going to the Democrats)
We are Lemmings, we know nothing about the issues except what we are told by the media, so we get only one side.
The President solves problems by spending money that we borrow from China. Or he spends money that is freshly printed. They both mean everything must cost more!
Their is so much more that is wrong with the current administration, I voted for the President, I have the right to be disappointed in him. I believe he sold his soul as soon as he got into office. They gave the man the Nobel Peace prize for something they expected him to do in the future, it has not been done yet.
Everything he has done to date is going to cost me money!
The taxes that will come into being on January 1 are going to be killers, I know the 50% of the population that pays no taxes don’t care, they will continue to get the freebees.
Food, housing, a phone, a check, healthcare, education and more.
If you have been happy with the first 4 years just wait until the next 4! The President will go down in history for a lot of reasons, but greatness will not be one of them!
I love him for being first, he will get my vote again, I’m but a Lemming.
I’m not entirely certain that you have an idea what you’re talking about. The media is controlled by both sides of the political party in terms of that, but given that there are legitimate facts that the republican party refuses to admit to (like the fact that they have refused to cooperate with President Obama since he got in office, much the deficit that is currently here was started before he was put in office, republican policy has led to the failed nature of our country over and over again).
The taxes that were proposed would only affect the top income earners and would only be a modest 3% back to what Clinton had it at.
I’m not saying that President Obama is the greatest, but I can tell you that he’s been MUCH better than what we’ve had recently, not to mention what we could have. The fact that people label those who support Obama as Obamabots, lemmings or other such mindless creatures illustrates the brainless nature of those who can’t think for themselves in terms of the lies that have been presented to them.