Mitt Romney is a liar
Sep. 10th, 2012 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumNot in the usual sort of way people call politicians liars... the shading of truths to make it seem all the facts are with them, the inability to face the idea that there might be some merit to the other side's plan (whatever side it happens to be, and regardless of the plan).
No, Mitt Romney tells blatant falsehoods. Steve Benen has been chronicling them. The count 616 lies, in 33 weeks.
Verified lies. Lies with cited refutations. That's 19 whoppers a week.
Things like, ". In an ad, the Romney campaign argued that Obama "has managed to pile on nearly as much debt as all the previous presidents combined."
That's not even close to the truth.
3. In the same ad, Team Romney claimed, "President Barack Obama named himself one of the country's four best presidents."
That's blatantly untrue, and the campaign knows it's blatantly untrue because it's been told the truth several times. Mitt's Mendacity Vol XII
If we skip back to Vol. VII we get things like these:
6. Romney also argued, "Syria is Iran's source of access to the Mediterranean."
Iran doesn't share a border with Syria.
7. Romney said of the American auto industry, "I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back."
And the press doesn't care. It really doesn't.
Look at what CNN did after Ryan's RNC speech: CNN doesn't care that Paul Ryan is a liar
Blitzer begins by calling it “a powerful speech,” then notes, in the same breath, that “I marked at least seven or eight points I’m sure the fact checkers will have some opportunities to dispute if they want to go forward, I’m sure they will.”
Burnett agrees that Ryan’s speech was so dishonest, she, too, was scribbling down lies in real time, but then concludes, “He’s a man who says I care deeply about every single word. I want to do a good job. And he delivered on that. Precise, clear, and passionate.”
...Just seconds after the speech, both Blitzer and Burnett already know, without even checking, that Ryan’s speech was completely full of shit, but their takeaway is that he “delivered,” and that he was “precise” and “clear.”
Romney is telling whoppers like the one's I cited at the rate of 17 a week. The Press doesn't care. They were all over the things Al Gore was purported to have said. They called him a "serial liar", but the Mittster? He's just engaging in "post-truth politics"
How does he get away with it? The press is failing. They pretend that the lies are "just one sides opinion". They have done away with looking for what is objectively true, in exchange for the myth of, "objectivity".
They have decided to embrace the words of Yeats:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
That's bad enough, but the rest seems far more prophetic than it did when I learned the poem. Then the first verse seemed a warning, now the rest seems to be a knelling.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
No, Mitt Romney tells blatant falsehoods. Steve Benen has been chronicling them. The count 616 lies, in 33 weeks.
Verified lies. Lies with cited refutations. That's 19 whoppers a week.
Things like, ". In an ad, the Romney campaign argued that Obama "has managed to pile on nearly as much debt as all the previous presidents combined."
That's not even close to the truth.
3. In the same ad, Team Romney claimed, "President Barack Obama named himself one of the country's four best presidents."
That's blatantly untrue, and the campaign knows it's blatantly untrue because it's been told the truth several times. Mitt's Mendacity Vol XII
If we skip back to Vol. VII we get things like these:
6. Romney also argued, "Syria is Iran's source of access to the Mediterranean."
Iran doesn't share a border with Syria.
7. Romney said of the American auto industry, "I'll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry's come back."
And the press doesn't care. It really doesn't.
Look at what CNN did after Ryan's RNC speech: CNN doesn't care that Paul Ryan is a liar
Blitzer begins by calling it “a powerful speech,” then notes, in the same breath, that “I marked at least seven or eight points I’m sure the fact checkers will have some opportunities to dispute if they want to go forward, I’m sure they will.”
Burnett agrees that Ryan’s speech was so dishonest, she, too, was scribbling down lies in real time, but then concludes, “He’s a man who says I care deeply about every single word. I want to do a good job. And he delivered on that. Precise, clear, and passionate.”
...Just seconds after the speech, both Blitzer and Burnett already know, without even checking, that Ryan’s speech was completely full of shit, but their takeaway is that he “delivered,” and that he was “precise” and “clear.”
Romney is telling whoppers like the one's I cited at the rate of 17 a week. The Press doesn't care. They were all over the things Al Gore was purported to have said. They called him a "serial liar", but the Mittster? He's just engaging in "post-truth politics"
How does he get away with it? The press is failing. They pretend that the lies are "just one sides opinion". They have done away with looking for what is objectively true, in exchange for the myth of, "objectivity".
They have decided to embrace the words of Yeats:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
That's bad enough, but the rest seems far more prophetic than it did when I learned the poem. Then the first verse seemed a warning, now the rest seems to be a knelling.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
