Republican Lies category archive
All the News that Fits 0
Aside:
At the end of the piece, the columnist, Bill Goodykoontz, seems to imply that Fox News is “reputable media outfit.”
It isn’t. It never has been. Indeed, it has never tried to be.
It’s always been nothing more than Roger Ailes’s dream of “Republican TV.”
All the News that Fits 0
Fox News photo fraud gets found out.
Defunding the Racist Fundament 0
Seth argues for clarity.
The Voter Fraud Fraudsters 0
Scott Lemieux rounds up a list of suspects.
(Surprise. They are not who Republicans tell you they are.)
“Where’s Waldo?” 0
At Above the Law, Elizabeth Dye notes that Donald Trump seems confused about a lot of things as to where he maintains his legal domicile.
The Art of the Con 0
E. J. Montini highlights an ongoing case of egregious mail fraud.
Numbers Gaming 0
Matthew Fleischer looks at Georgia’s game of three-card monte with COVID-19 stats. An excerpt:
And yet data don’t lie. Or do they?
Thanks to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, we now know things did indeed look too good to be true.
Georgia’s coronavirus numbers looked so rosy because officials misrepresented the data in such a way it’s difficult to believe it wasn’t done on purpose.
Aside:
One of the links to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the one cited around the phrase “misrepresented the data” in the excerpt above, is broken. Try this one instead.
From Sizzle to Fizzle 0
David discusses the how the air came out of Donald Trump’s trumped-up (you will pardon the expression) Obamagate balloon.
“What They Don’t Know Won’t Hurt Us” 0
In line with Sam Seder’s comment that I cited earlier this week,
That’s the Trump strategy in a nutshell: If we don’t have evidence, there’s no way for people to know about it . . . .
now comes Florida Man (much, much more at the link):
Rebekah Jones, whose work to build the user-friendly COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard drew praise and publicity, said her commitment to maximum transparency resulted in her removal from the dashboard project.
Numbers Gaming 0
Sam and his guest do the math and discover (surprise!) that the Trump administration is fudging the statistics on the effects of COVID-19.
The Fee Hand of the Market 0
Well, this should work out well (about as well as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, that is).