Day: 10/11/2012

Biden/Ryan Debate: Paul Ryan Reprises PolitiFact’s 2010 Lie of the Year

Posted by on October 11, 2012 at 8:32 pm. NO Comments :

Pants on FireIt’s not enough for Republicans to merely lie after having set the bar for veracity so low this election season. Consequently, after Romney spent 90 minutes lying last week, Ryan had to aim higher. And boy, did he. He reprised the 2010 Lie of the Year per PolitiFact.

PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year: ‘A government takeover of health care’
Ryan: President Obama, he had his chance. He made his choices. His economic agenda, more spending, more borrowing, higher taxes, a government takeover of health care. It’s not working.

In addition to that, Ryan let loose another PolitiFact Pants-On-Fire lie:

Smallest Navy Since 1917
Ryan: If these cuts go through, our Navy will be the smallest — the smallest it has been since before World War I.

Republicans have been very upset at having been called liars lately. That’s despite the fact that Romney started it even before the first debate by projecting that Obama would lie. But I would advise them that if they don’t like being called liars, they should stop lying.

This Video Of Mitt Romney Praising Glenn Beck As A Statesman Should Disqualify Him For Office

Posted by on October 11, 2012 at 3:55 pm. NO Comments :

David Corn at Mother Jones has uncovered another video that should have serious repercussions for Mitt Romney. It shows Romney giving an introduction to his “friend” Glenn Beck at a fundraising event for a dubious college.

Mitt Romney & Glenn Beck

Romney begins his introduction of Beck by describing it as a “special treat” and “an honor.” He then describes Beck, who was eventually driven off the air due to his racist and deranged conspiracy rants, as one of the most popular hosts on TV with a “fresh” approach. And, finally, Romney gushes that Beck, a notoriously hyperbolic and divisive hate monger, is a “statesman.”

If Romney regards Beck as a statesman, it shines a light (or should I say casts a pall) on the sort of appointments he would make to the state department were he president. Perhaps he’d nominate John Bolton for Secretary of State, or Ted Nugent for arms control negotiator.

David Corn goes into some detail about the fringe university that is the beneficiary of the fundraiser. It was founded by followers of a Mormon author and professor, W. Cleon Skousen. After demonstrating that he was a fanatic who lacked any credibility (and a Nazi sympathizer), even the Mormon Church rejected him. But that didn’t stop Beck, also a Mormon, from incessantly hyping his book, “The 5,000 Year Leap,” which Beck effusively praised saying, “I beg you to read this book filled with words of wisdom which I can only describe as divinely inspired.”

Unlike the videos that the right splashes around the InterTubes proclaiming falsely that they contain bombshell revelations about Obama, this video of Romney is not a twenty year old relic that has no relevance to the current campaign. Romney made this video during the current campaign in 2009, while sucking up to right-wing demagogues in pursuit of the GOP nomination. And it is precisely because of the absurd allegiances he has that he is unfit for the presidency of the United States.