Republican Lies category archive
Just Because You Read It Somewhere Don’t Make It True 0
In the Portland Press-Herald, Greg Kesich dissects several Republican disinformation campaigns and offers some hints for separating spotting the cons. A snippet:
Consensus Census Con
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Mike Littwin takes a deep-dive into the Trump Administration’s changing rationales for adding a citizenship question to the census. A snippet:
Oops. Redistricting? Number one? That’s what the question’s opponents say it’s about.
Predictability 0
Tony Norman spots a pattern:
He (President Trump–ed.) never tries to distance himself from his lies — only from the truth.
Follow the link to see why he said that.
Objectiveng to Science
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At the Bangor Daily News, Basav Sen of the Climate Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies outlines the Trump administration’s war on science. A snippet:
Last November, when a report by government scientists contradicted Trump’s position and showed that the United States will suffer devastating consequences from climate change, the president simply declared that reality was irrelevant. “I don’t believe it” was his response.
Numbers Don’t Lie . . . 0
. . . but people do.
Video Vandals 0
Shorter Dick Polman comments on the right-wing’s faked video of Nancy Pelosi (and the legion of other faked videos). A snippet:











