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dtroutma
said, 8 months ago
Optical delusion, elephant specialty.
jmattadams
said, 8 months ago
I dunno. The msm had a much longer list of lies from the DNC. All they got from the GOP was a lame attempt to bust Ryan on a John Kerry “I voted for it before I voted against it.” I guess if fact checkers have decided they need to prove that they are necessary, they gotta start looking at the Dems more.
Fairportfan2 said, 8 months ago
Boy, you sure saw a different set of conventions and speeches than the Real World did.
Radish
said, 8 months ago
As they said on Fox news, Paul Ryan’s speech was three things: dazzling, deceiving and distracting.
Jeddidyah said, 8 months ago
As Clinton said, they live in an alternate universe.
ne7minder55 said, 8 months ago
Did you know that the GOP employees comment trolls? It made a tiny splash a couple of years ago that the GOP paid a staff of people to support them online and rip into anything that was negative for the GOP. These trolls often created many accounts so they could support themselves and appear to be a large number of people.
You see them here at gocomics all the time.
ARodney said, 8 months ago
The Democrats may have some unfair attacks (“I like to fire people”), but the Republicans are running their entire campaign on lies (“You didn’t build that”, “cutting taxes creates jobs” “I won’t take God off our coins.”) This amount of lying is really unprecedented, and it’s fun seeing reporters in the MSM finally holding people like Ryan to their lies rather than taking them at their word. Ryan, who PERSONALLY DESIGNED the cuts in defense because he didn’t want to risk taxes going up on the rich, is trying to blame Obama for it, and he’s not being allowed to get away with it. It’s leaving them floundering and sputtering, since they have no actual policy that they’re willing to admit to.
Ms. Ima said, 8 months ago
@ne7minder55
Is that because the dems have all the unpaid media to support them and create and propagate lies about Mitt?
JmcaRice
said, 8 months ago
Since when does the media care about checking the facts ? They have a pre-determined agenda (on the left or right) and espouse their viewpoint in poorly disguised objectivity.
lontooni said, 8 months ago
“elephants never forget” to lie
Nantucket19 said, 8 months ago
@ne7minder55
This started with the Bush administration paying columnists to promote their agenda. Maggie Gallagher comes to mind.
onguard said, 8 months ago
Chicago rules have overtaken the “Fact Checkers”.
Nantucket19 said, 8 months ago
@Ms. Ima
Even Fox called Ryan out on his lies in the RNC speech. Mitt’s campaign referred to him as Etch-A-Sketch.
Craig Linder
said, 8 months ago
@jmattadams
Another unsupported assertion by a troll. Surprise, surprise. Cite independent trustworthy sources or shut up.
corzak said, 8 months ago
Until recently, it was easy to tell a fabrication to one audience, and then a completely different version of it to another audience, and then even a third to a third . . . and no one would notice or make the connection. But today with social media, online fact checking, cell phone video, etc . . .
The Romney campaign has been flip-flopping all over the place – and even within a few hours! – not so much because flip-flopping is new, but because it is so visible now.