This will be Mitt’s night. The night starts off with his youngest son addressing the convention in Spanish. I expect that will piss off much of the faithful.
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Lyin’ Ryan: The Media Push Back
This diary is a collection of all the media push back (so far) that Paul Ryan has received. I intend to tweet, Facebook and email this list far and wide. Please feel free to add to the list as I will update this diary periodically. Thanks!
Dave Weigel, Slate.com:
“incredible string of false or misleading statements”
http://www.slate.com/…
Joan Walsh, Salon.com:
“His Republican National Convention speech was stunning for its dishonesty”
http://www.salon.com/…
Jonathan Cohn, the New Republic:
The Most Dishonest Convention Speech … Ever?
http://www.tnr.com/…
TPM:
Top 5 Fibs In Paul Ryan’s Convention Speech
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/…
Michael Tomasky, the Daily Beast:
“Paul Ryan pushed American politics into new territory with his convention speech, effectively daring Democrats and the media to call him out on his string of blatant falsehoods”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/…
Jonathan Bernstein, the Washington Post:
Paul Ryan fails — the truth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
AP:
FACT CHECK: Convention speakers stray from reality
http://www.google.com/…
Dan Amira, NY Magazine:
Paul Ryan Bets on the Ignorance of America
http://nymag.com/…
Fox News contributor, Sally Kohn:
“Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/…
Steve Benen, Maddowblog:
Paul Ryan stands on a foundation of lies
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/…
Huffington Post:
PAUL TALES: RYAN MISLEADS, AGAIN AND AGAIN
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Politicsusa:
5 Biggest lies in Romney’s speech:
http://www.politicususa.com/…
Bob Cesca:
Paul Ryan’s Speech: Lies, Lies and More Lies
http://bobcesca.com/…
Washington Post Editorial Board:
Mr. Ryan’s misleading speech
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Factcheck.org
“Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention contained several false claims and misleading statements.”
http://factcheck.org/…
Andrew Sullivan, the Daily Beast:
The lies and lies of Paul Ryan
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/…
Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker:
The Paul Ryan Speech: Five Hypocrisies
http://www.newyorker.com/…
Jonathan Chait, NY magazine:
Paul Ryan’s large lies and one big truth
http://nymag.com/…
James Downie, Washington Post:
Paul Ryan’s breathtakingly dishonest speech
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
James Fallow, Atlantic
Paul Ryan and the post truth convention
http://www.theatlantic.com/…
Robert Schlesinger, US News
http://www.usnews.com/…
LYIN’ Santorum
Rick Santorum repeats inaccurate welfare attack on Obama
http://www.latimes.com/…
Juan Cole:
Top Ten Repeated Paul Ryan Lies
http://www.juancole.com/…
The Guardian:
Paul Ryan’s speech: a round-up of his most audacious untruths
http://www.guardian.co.uk/…
Charles Pierce, Esquire:
Paul Ryan Is the Newest New Nixon, a Moocher Belied
http://www.esquire.com/…
Huffington Post
Busted! Ryan’s speech fools no one
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
David Firestone, NYT
Beyond Factual Dishonesty
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/…
Josh Barro, Bloomberg
Paul Ryan’s Hypocritical Attack on Barack Obama
http://www.bloomberg.com/…
Lindy West, Jezebel.com
Why lying is bad, a primer for confused republicans
http://jezebel.com/…
Jon Stewart, the Daily Show
Jon Stewart Would Settle For Any Truths In Paul Ryan’s Speech
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/…
William Saletan, Slate.com
Why I’m breaking up with Paul Ryan
http://www.slate.com/…
John Nichols, CBSnews.com
They love the lies Paul Ryan tells
http://www.cbsnews.com/…
Miles Mogulescu, Huffington Post
Paul Ryan: Lying Liar
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…
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Aviva Shen, Think Progress
6 Worst Lies in Paul Ryan’s speech
http://thinkprogress.org/…
Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register:
Half the truth often is a full lie for Paul Ryan
http://abetteriowa.desmoinesregister.com/…
Ezra Klein, The Washington Post
A not-very-truthful speech in a not-very-truthful campaign
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
Henry Blodget, Business Insider
Paul Ryan’s Speech Proves The New Political Truth: It’s Fine To Lie http://www.businessinsider.com/…
its-fine-to-lie-2012-8#ixzz258ABIMm2
The Week
The media coverage of Paul Ryan’s speech: 15 euphemisms for ‘lying’
http://theweek.com/…
Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon.com
Paul Ryan: The definitive fact-check
http://www.salon.com/…
Jean Williams, Examiner.com
RNC audience thrilled by Paul Ryan’s self-serving and deceitful speech
http://www.examiner.com/…
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Andy Borowitz (satirist), NewYorker.com
Ryan Launches Campaign Theme of Lying About Everything
http://www.newyorker.com/…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/30/1125935/-LYIN-RYAN-ALL-THE-MEDIA-PUSHBACK?detail=hide
Paul Ryan is the most dishonest pol since advice Nixon.
@Moon-howler
S If you would prefer me to ignore you rather than engage you in conversation, that is an easy fix. I feel you were rude to me.”
What? I wasn’t rude to you. I answered your question AND I put out a version of my ideas, again. And I STILL didn’t mention the word entitlements. Here’s my quotes.
“A-FRICKIN-MEN!
So, first we need courageous people in office that actually WANT to reduce the spending. Second, we need people in office that will prioritize and work out a plan. Third, we need the citizenry to realize that there’s no such thing as a free lunch and let these people work.
That means that we have to get rid of ….probably…..85-90% of Congress….. no biggie.”
HERE’S PAT.HERVE’S QUOTES: (I’ll cut out all but the important part.)
” If the R’s and the D’s could get on a plan to reduce spending, fix taxes, fix entitlements ”
I was copying and responding to HIS words. So, instead of kneejerk asking ME what I meant…why don’t you ask HIM?
I’m perfectly willing to discuss things. But maybe when I say that I didn’t say something, perhaps you need to go back and look for the original statements instead of claiming that I was rude to you.
Oh…and I don’t have a problem with your ideas about reforming Medicare/medicaid, etc.
Cargo, I thought you had said it. I can’t go through and read an entire blog. It looked like you had said it.
Sorry. I also wasnt asking for a diatribe, just solutions to a problem.
I get squirrely when I hear entitlements and I go wild when I hear medicaid lumped in with medicare and social security…mainly because of who pays.
Does it really matter who said it? You seemed to agree with the statement, regardless of who said it.
Obviously something is going to have to be tweaked somewhere along the time.
One thing I did like in Eastwood’s speech was when he criticized the president for not bringing our troops home from Afghanistan immediately. The crowd went wild when he said that. That was cool.
I’ve said this before….if Obama really wanted to screw the Republicans, he’d get us out of Afghanistan immediately. Not only would it appeal to his base, but the Republicans would lose the Ron Paul supporters for sure. I know full well that Romney PROBABLY means war, war, war.
@Starryflights
Thanks for pointing this out. Since the media has identified all these falsehoods from Paul Ryan, but none for Obama and Biden, I see that the only true, righteous path is liberalism and Obama. Or perhaps the media got its talking points from the DNC? I think these nearly identical points are more of an indictment of the media than of Paul Ryan.
And, thanks, Maureen Dowd, for a good synopsis of the last week’s events.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/opinion/sunday/dowd-cruel-conservatives-throw-a-masquerade-ball.html?pagewanted=all
re his son addressing the convention in Spanish: Mitt must have a pretty good command of French. One doesn’t hear about that very much. I bet he speaks French at least as well as John Kerry. Mormon missionaries get excellent language training before they go on their missions and their responsibilities require them to have a lot of inter-action with the natives. My guess is that Mitt’s French, although a bit rusty from lack of recent use, is quite serviceable. I learned French at about the same time and, although I occasionally get stuck on a word that I’m sure I used to know (yesterday it was, of all things, the word for “thumb”), it works pretty well.
A convention speech in French from the nominee would certainly have provided some variety.
9 years ago it would have been the political kiss of death.