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Election 2012
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Lying Liars and the Television Critics Who Enable Them
Michael Cooper writing in today’s NYT (“Facts Take a Beating In Acceptance Speeches“): Representative Paul D. Ryan used his convention speech on Wednesday to fault President Obama for failing to act on a deficit-reduction plan that he himself had helped kill. He chided Democrats for seeking $716 billion in Medicare cuts that he too had […]
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RNC Diary Day 3: Triumph of the Willard
Mitt Romney finally got exactly what he wanted tonight. A coming out party. A debutante’s ball. A two-and-a-half-hour long very special episode of This Is Your Life, so the whole world can see just how gosh-darned great Mitt Romney really is. He’s smart, successful, calm, dignified, loving, kind, and, oh, yeah, did we mention humble? […]
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An Old Man Arguing with His Imaginary Friend
AN OLD MAN AND HIS IMAGINARY FRIEND Not pictured: Barack Obama. Yesterday afternoon, when Paul noted that Clint Eastwood was going to speak at the Republican National Convention, I figured we were in for the sort of stump speech that the generally liberal denizens of Hollywood usually give for democrats: something trading on that actor’s […]
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I Guess I’m Going to See Clint Eastwood Tonight, You Guys
Remember how Republicans always talk about how celebrities should keep their fucking fool mouths shut and just act, already? That’s not how they feel when the celebrities are on their side: Actor Clint Eastwood is the so-called “mystery speaker,” who will address the Republican National Convention on Thursday night, according to CNN. Fox News and […]
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Give Paul Ryan a Break!
All you commie homo libtards are all up in Paul Ryan’s grille about how last night he stretched some truths and took some factual shortcuts. SHOWS WHAT YOU KNOW. Gawker has compiled a list of Seven Inarguably True Things in Paul Ryan’s Speech. A sampling: “There she is — my Mom, Betty.”Fact-check: True. Paul Ryan’s […]
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RNC Diary Day 2: The Wholesome Kid with the Lying Mouth
Last night, Paul Ryan was supposed to jolt the system of the Republican Party full of youthful energy. And on the surface, I suppose, that’s what he did. After all, he talked about listening to AC/DC and Zeppelin, and who better to exemplify the hep now-ness of the Republican Party than a band that was […]
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Reality Has a Reality Bias
The Romney campaign is going to keep running on falsehoods. It’s part of the plan, apparently. Despite universal agreement among independent fact-checkers that Romney is lying about Obama’s welfare policy, Romney campaign pollster Neil Newhouse said that wouldn’t deter the campaign. “Fact checkers come to this with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs, and […]
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Two Republicans Do Something Racist Enough to Get Them Bounced from the Republican Convention
This is what happens when you play the racism game: Eventually some idiot takes you seriously and thinks racist shit is okay. Two people were removed from the Republican National Convention Tuesday after they threw nuts at an African-American CNN camera operator and said, “This is how we feed animals.” Multiple witnesses observed the exchange […]
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RNC, Night 1: Dance of the Tokens
For the debut evening of the truncated Republican National Convention, the party basically plundered their deep back bench of minorities and women to make speeches. Most of those speeches had to do with ridiculing President Obama for a statement that he didn’t really make. The theme was “We Built It,” in reference to the inelegant […]
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Convention Diary: The Ron Paul Delegates Disrupted the Convention This Afternoon
From my nosebleed seats high above the RNC floor about an hour ago, I caught a rare bit of unscripted excitement: A floor fight between the Romney delegates and the Paul delegates. It was a chanting battle, starting out with “Ron! Paul!” versus “Rom! Nee!” but spreading into more active chants of “Let! Him! Speak!” […]