Republican Lies category archive
Wow. Just Wow. 0
In The Roanoke Times, a Radford University history professors takes a wingnut to the cleaners.
An excerpt from the first paragraph:
It gets better.
What Ailes Fox News? 0
Thom suggests that the sexual harassment charges against Roger Ailes, though headline-grabbing, are hardly the worst thing about Fox News.
Mythbuster 0
The Rude One marvels at Trump’s fact-free interview with Time Magazine. Here’s a snippet (emphasis added, warning: language):
When someone believes their own mythology, they become parodies of themselves. Trump has never not been that parody, and now, as his supposedly legendary dealmaking ability falls to pieces in the health care bill debacle, he is frantically trying to maintain the illusion of the myth. Without that myth, he’s just a sad old man in an ill-fitting suit who wants to play truck driver.
Homer Had the Catalog of Ships.
Trump Has the Catalog of Lies.
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TPM catalogs the biggest lies in Trump’s Time Magazine interview.
Image via C&L, which explores the ways in which conservatives strive to avoid and deny the truth about the Trumpling of America. (Excerpt below the fold.)
The Art of the Con 0
TPM explores the propaganda Republicans are using to promote their “they laughingly call it health care” bill. Here’s one; follow the link for the rest (emphasis in the original).
However, the CBO last week made clear — backing up what multiple other analyses have said — that Obamacare is not in or heading towards a death spiral.
“In CBO and JCT’s assessment, however, the nongroup market would probably be stable in most areas under either current law or the legislation,” the CBO said.
When Does a Pot Become a Kettle? 0
Josh Marshall wonders just how “unsubstantiated” an “allegation” must be for the media to call it a lie.
Suffer the Children 0
That’s not a quote from the Bible.
That’s Republican policy.
Portrait of the Con Artist as a Younger Man 0
Facebook Frolics, Dis Coarse Discourse Dept. 0
Eerily illustrating David Frum’s comments in the interview in the previous post, here’s more on the theme of “All the News that Fits.”.
“Presidented” 0
In the San Francisco Chronicle, John Diaz list precedents for a President. A nugget:
Speaking of Alternative Facts 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., shreds Ben Carson’s referring to America’s African chattel slaves as “immigrants.” A nugget:
But the slaves were no more “immigrants” than rape is making love.
Read the rest.