Republican Lies category archive
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
The drum beat goes on.
Read the Footnotes 0
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel executes a tour-de-force debunking of duplicitous drivel.
All the News that Fits 0
Gene Collier looks at the deep distrust with which some Americans view the news media and considers the source(s). A snippet (emphasis added):
In a related vein, Beth Rabinowitz offers a look back at the era of yellow journalism and how objectivity became a journalistic value.
(Broken link fixed.)
Shep Smith Is Not Holding His Breath 0
Shep Smith discusses why he left Fox News.
The Chronicler 0
Daniel Dale looks back on four years of tracking Trump’s lies. A nugget; follow the link for more:
It was, in sum, a lot. In September 2020, I had to abandon my effort to produce a comprehensive count of the false claims: Trump was doing so much lying during the campaign that I physically could not keep up. By then, I’d tallied about 9,000 false claims since September 2016.
Via Atrios.
Warped Speed 0
We need to vaccinate ourselves against lies and lying liars.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Jamelle Bouie looks at the long history of Republican attempts to gut out the vote and at the racism that underlies them. A snippet (emphasis added):
Not that this was a shock. As an accusation, “voter fraud” has been used historically to disparage the participation of Black voters and immigrants — to cast their votes as illegitimate. And Obama came to office on the strength of historic turnout among Black Americans and other nonwhite groups. To the conservative grass roots, Obama’s very presence in the White House was, on its face, evidence that fraud had overtaken American elections.
Herding Trumples 0
The AP goes on the lies round-up. A snippet:
“Who’s the banana republic now?” asked newspaper headlines an ocean apart in Kenya and Colombia.
Trump leaves Joe Biden with repair work to do on the government’s credibility in a country where millions went along with their president’s fantastical ride — believing his persistent falsehoods about masks, election fraud, socialists in the halls of power, antifa rampant in the streets, his tormenters at every turn.
It’s a legacy of “magical thinking,” said Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland. “They have a full-blown independent reality, totally cut apart from the world of facts.” He said that is the road to fascism.
Misdirection Play, Insurrection Resurrection Dept. 0
Thom marvels at the Republicans’ attempts to blame anybody but themselves for what happened at the Capitol on January 6. As an aside, this segues nicely to Paul Krugman’s article linked in my previous post. (The relevant comment starts at about the four minute mark, after the introduction.)
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Paul Krugman marvels at the mendacity. A snippet:
For the big thing that has changed since Hofstadter wrote is that one of our major political parties has become willing to tolerate and, indeed, feed right-wing political paranoia.
This coddling of the crazies was, at first, almost entirely cynical. When the GOP began moving right in the 1970s, its true agenda was mainly economic — what its leaders wanted, above all, were business deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. But the party needed more than plutocracy to win elections, so it began courting working-class whites with what amounted to thinly disguised racist appeals.
Those “racist appeals” he mentioned weren’t even “disguised,” not even “thinly,” to the eyes of anyone who pays attention.
Freedom of Screech, One More Time 0
The Des Moines Register’s Rekha Basu explains that words can have consequences. A snippet:
Choosing the Low Road 0
Thom discusses why the Republican Party fears honest elections.
“The Red Hats Are Coming! The Red Hats Are Coming!” 0
Stephen’s monologue from Wednesday evening was a tour de force.