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 sought. And he lamented the nation’s credit rating—which was downgraded after a debt-ceiling standoff that he and other House Republicans helped instigate. And Mitt Romney, in his acceptance speech on Thursday night, asserted that President Obama’s policies had “not helped create jobs” and that Mr. Obama had gone on an “apology tour” for America. He also warned that the president’s Medicare cuts would “hurt today’s seniors,” claims that have already been labeled false or misleading…. Any unmasking of the lies or distortions, the thinking goes, rarely seeps into the public consciousness.
Alessandra Stanley writing in today’s NYT (“How MSNBC Became Fox’s Liberal Evil Twin”):
You can agree with everything that Rachel Maddow or Ed Schultz say on MSNBC and still oppose their right to say it. Especially when they and their hyped-up panelists shout that Republican claims are “lies.”
Gee, why don’t efforts to unmask the lies “seep into the public consciousness”? Maybe because newspaper reporters and television news anchors are too inhibited or too compromised or too terrified to call lies lies. Instead of telling us the truth in plain English—you’re being lied to—they tell us that facts took beatings, that “factual shortcuts” were taken, that a statement may have been “factually challenged.” They make it sound like facts did something wrong. (Facts are such pussies—why do they just stand there and take beatings like that? Why don’t facts fight back? Pussy facts!)
Here’s what happened at the RNC: lies were told, over and over and over again, by nearly every idiot who stood at the podium. And the same reporters and anchors who refuse to point out the lies and call out the liars—the same reporters and anchors who refuse to do their jobs—wonder why their pathetic, cringing, tortured, opaque, failing, flailing, euphemism-packed efforts to “unmask” lies without ever calling them lies never quite “seeps into the public consciousness.”
And when a reporter or an anchor actually has the temerity/balls/ovaries calls a lie a lie—when a reporter does his or her job—Alessandra Stanley is there to scold them.
Like when Obama lied about “hope and change”? Like when he lied and said he was going to “unify America”? It’s ok to be a liberal and lie to get elected. Like Sam Adams. There is zero accountability even when their credibility is shot to pieces. Nice leadership, guys. Way to go.
Like Harry Reid: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/…
Like Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manger:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/…
Paul Ryan has never been proven to be a liar. These are accusations and distortions from a desperate liberal lobby who simply want to hold on to power. These people are as dishonest as they get. They want to attack good people and divide us all. Mitt Romney is a far better man than Obama could ever hope to be. Mitt Romney helps people in the truest sense and I can’t wait for him to fix our country when he becomes the next President of the United States.
Jesus, doesn’t your family in Kansas miss you, SJR? Or were you kicked out of Kansas for being a zealot?
I was born and raised in Portland. I’m not going anywhere, either. I’ve seen first hand what liberal leadership looks like in our city and state. Sam Adams lied to get elected and liberals of Portland did NOTHING. Now liberals are somehow immune to criticism when they straight up fucking lie? They have some nerve using that tactic considering the many lies they tell on a regular basis. I have gladly provided some examples above. People have a right to know these things even if Sarah Mirk and Paul Constant aren’t willing to discuss THAT side of things on their way to pimp out their failed ideology.
What I suggest is liberals stop lying about things and start taking responsibility for their failures or lose my support for good. Then I will begin my campaign to convince the good, disillusioned liberals to become more educated on current events and disavow and connection to extremists who only want to divide us. The liberals I knew growing up in Portland were good people. They believed what they believed and if you disagreed with them, no problem. They would even offer to smoke you out and have some laughs.
Now you have these dishonest hypocrite creeps that use bully tactics to fool impressionable minds and that is truly despicable. As you can tell, I’m sick of the bullshit.
Fuck Kansas.
Go Portland! Go Blazers! Go ROMNEY!!!!!
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I once wrote a paper on “disillusionment” in high school. Wish this blog would have been around then. Great primary sources.