Listen to a campaign speech by either Romney or Paul Ryan. Over 43 percent of what they say will be lies.
Imagine that; come November, tens of millions of people will cast a vote to make Romney-Ryan one of the most powerful duos in the world and nearly half that decision will be based on constantly repeated shameless lies.
It remains the case that we are seeing nothing from the Obama campaign that’s anything like what Romney is attempting.
“If you tell a big enough lie, and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” ~ Adolf Hitler
Romney right now is premising one of the central arguments of his whole campaign on a complete lie.
The Republican claim that Obama “gutted” the work requirement in welfare reform has been debunked again and again, by independent fact checkers and by Bill Clinton - the same president who signed the law Obama supposedly gutted.
Yet Romney has repeated the welfare lie - in forum after forum after forum, in at least three new ads - after he was caught stretching the truth.
The Romney ad campaign says exactly the opposite of what the new welfare rule stipulates. PolitiFact called the first Romney ad "Pants on Fire," and Glenn Kessler gave it four Pinocchios. But now here they come again with a second ad saying that Obama "ended the work requirement." Plainly and verifiably not true.
The folks working at the corporate news organizations know full well that Romney is serial-lying with abandon. What should they do about it?
[source: WaPo, 22 Aug 2012]
Imagine that; come November, tens of millions of people will cast a vote to make Romney-Ryan one of the most powerful duos in the world and nearly half that decision will be based on constantly repeated shameless lies.
It remains the case that we are seeing nothing from the Obama campaign that’s anything like what Romney is attempting.
“If you tell a big enough lie, and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” ~ Adolf Hitler
Romney right now is premising one of the central arguments of his whole campaign on a complete lie.
The Republican claim that Obama “gutted” the work requirement in welfare reform has been debunked again and again, by independent fact checkers and by Bill Clinton - the same president who signed the law Obama supposedly gutted.
Yet Romney has repeated the welfare lie - in forum after forum after forum, in at least three new ads - after he was caught stretching the truth.
The Romney ad campaign says exactly the opposite of what the new welfare rule stipulates. PolitiFact called the first Romney ad "Pants on Fire," and Glenn Kessler gave it four Pinocchios. But now here they come again with a second ad saying that Obama "ended the work requirement." Plainly and verifiably not true.
The folks working at the corporate news organizations know full well that Romney is serial-lying with abandon. What should they do about it?
[source: WaPo, 22 Aug 2012]