Republican Lies category archive
Spin Cycle 0
An ex-corporate spin-meister discusses how “spin” differs from “lies” and marvels at the multiplication of mendacity. A couple of nuggets (emphasis added):
But let’s say that beyond emphasizing just one figure and de-emphasizing another, to try to “help” our company I decided to unilaterally claim that Assets Under Management were up 10 percent, not 1 percent. That’s not spinning. That’s lying. You can’t do that. At least not for long. . . .
Today lying has been elevated to a renegade art form. We call it Fake News. (I’d rather call it Real Lying.) In a year of troubling trends, no trend is more troubling to me than the everyday casualness with which folks in power, or seeking power, ignore facts or make up their own when real facts don’t suit their needs.
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
In related news, Solomon Jones finds inspiration in an unlikely place (follow the link for the complete article):
They must stand up, red-faced and outraged, and shout that now-infamous phrase.
“You lie!”
Press Conference
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Tony Norman has more. Here’s a snippet from his article:
This indifference is what the Trump administration is counting on. The multiple daily outrages via Twitter, or at a White House briefing, or in a dark presidential speech or uttered on a Sunday talk show will quickly consume the public’s finite allotment of outrage. This can only lead to more indifference and a glassy-eyed boredom that will not serve us well when long-term assaults against every one of our democratic institutions begin in earnest.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
The Charlotte Observer skewers the non-apology apology of a Republican operative who authored a “fake news” story.
The San Francisco Chronicle has more on this particular faker.
(What’s unusual about this is that the faker got his comeuppance. Wonder if he’ll get picked up by Fox News?)
Outside Agitators 0
They aren’t who you think they are.
“Because His Mouth Is Moving . . . .” 0
The Charlotte Observer observes:
Here’s why. We can’t see what’s in his heart. We can hear what comes out of his mouth. He’s quickly making himself the butt of an old joke: How do you know when Trump’s telling a whopper? His lips are moving.
More observations at the link.
All that Was Old Is New Again, Throwing Granny under the Bus Dept. Reprise 0
The kleptocrats are coming for the olds.
The Fakery Factory 0
In a column syndicated at the Portland Press Herald, Anne Applebaum, who was once herself a victim of a false news story originating in Russia, tries to understand why “fake news” has become a thing. She suspects that there is more to it than the lies and lying liars who propagate them or the gullible who gobble them up. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
The problem also lay with Hillary Clinton, who was hardly a trusted figure to begin with.
But it is also true that we are living through a global media revolution, that people are hearing and digesting political information in brand-new ways and that nobody yet understands the consequences.
The Voter Fraud Fraud, the Jim Crow Election Dept. 0
Good luck with Trump’s “Justice” Department.
A Common Thread 0
Shaun Mullen finds an eerie similarity in certain recent events. Here’s a snippet:
We also were told to buck up and move on when:
- The Reagan administration secretly sent weapons to Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, in 1985 as part of the Iran-Contra scheme. Reagan couldn’t be impeached, we were told, because America was still getting over Nixon and Watergate although only a few years later Bill Clinton would be impeached for a blowjob.
- The Supreme Court in 2000 jumped the extra-constitutional shark and meddled in a presidential election, ruling that the winner was George Bush, who “won” because the Republican-controlled election apparatus in Florida was as fixed as the high court majority turned out to be.
- The very moral foundations of our democracy were subverted by a secret post-9/11 program of dark-site prisons and the use of Nazi torture techniques no matter if the victims weren’t terrorists, which they often were not. This yielded no valid intelligence but did tank America’s standing abroad.
Is it merely a coincidence that all of these outrages were perpetrated by Republicans?
Do please read the rest.
All the News that Fits 0
Daniel Ruth is appalled by the fabulists that are Trumpling into power. Follow the link and read his column.
Mike Smith provides the illustration:
We are a society of stupid.
Lies and Lying Liars, Reprise 0
Shorter Badtux: Lies have consequences.
Discussion Question:
Who’s more dangerous, the liars or the persons stupid enough to believe them?
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Dick Polman waxes Pence-sive.