WP editorial: "Paul Ryan's breathtakingly dishonest speech" [View all]

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The author highlights the 2 biggest lies in Ryan's speech last night in Tampa:

--Blaming Obama for a GM plant closure announced in early June 2008;
--Claiming Obama 'raided Medicare' when Ryan's own budget includes the same savings from insurer and hospital overpayments;

But--with links to relevant documents--it also explores less blatant Ryan lies last night and wraps criticism of his mendacity in some very strong language for a mainstream newspaper:

WHAT'S YOUR OPINION? Have you seen editorial language attacking Romney-Ryan lies stronger than this from a regular columnist for mainstream media?

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"Paul Ryan's breathtakingly dishonest speech

By James Downie

Yesterday, at an ABC News panel, Mitt Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said, 'We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.' Wednesday's speech from Paul Ryan certainly took that disdain for truth to heart, as his address was filled with falsehoods from start to finish. ...

'[Obama] created a bipartisan debt commission(, the Simpson-Bowles commission). They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.' But Ryan was on that commission, and he voted against that 'urgent report.' Also, the president did not do 'exactly nothing': The White House released a debt plan last September, despite Republicans' best attempts to pretend it doesn't exist. Finally, if the crisis is so urgent, why does Ryan's own budget proposal not balance the budget until the 2030s? ...

'The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.' As Time’s Michael Grunwald, who has just published a new book about the stimulus, points out, 'Experts had warned that 5 percent of the stimulus could be lost to fraud, but investigators have documented less than $10 million in losses--about 0.001 percent.' ...

With tonight’s speech, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have doubled down on their twin bets of 2012 — that journalists will sit back and name winners and losers without regard to who is telling the truth, and that voters are too ignorant to care about the truth. Do not let them be right."