Republican Lies category archive
Chris-Crossed, for Whom the Bridge Tolls Dept. 2
Dick Polman marvels at the disparate treatment.
We all know what would happen. The mainstream media would nail Clinton for the “perception” that a “shadow” had been cast over her campaign. They would assail her for refusing to dump the aide. They would amplify Donald Trump’s inevitable declaration that this episode proved the perfidy of “Crooked Hillary.”
But since Trump is inexplicably permitted to play by banana-republic rules, there will be no such equivalent oucry over the fact that his own transition leader, Chris Christie, was outed yesterday in federal court by a prosecutor who said he was fully aware of the bridge closures while they were happening. It was a milestone moment in the long-running scandal, the first time that a federal official has said such a thing in a formal judicial proceeding, and it flatly contradicted Christie’s long-running lie (which he repeated Sunday on CNN) that he has been exonerated by all the investigations.
More troubled waters at the link.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Gene Nichol comments about North Carolina Republicans’ gut-out-the-vote effort; he minces no words, though he does mince Republicans’ lame justifications for racial discrimination in the franchise. A nugget:
I can attest that Republican leaders take potent umbrage at being compared to the segregationists of a half-century ago. But why is that? Is it because they seek only to disenfranchise blacks, not to hang or shoot or beat or use water cannons on them? Is the implicit suggestion that, given the treatment their grandparents got, African-Americans today ought to be grateful their government now pursues only electoral suppression?
Trump’s Cavalcade of Lies 0
Dick Polman calls the roll.
The Voter Fraud Fraud, Reprise 0
Peter St. Onge finds himself flabbergasted at the capability of North Carolina Republican election board members to believe stuff that ain’t.
Just read it.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Richard Eskow speaks with Ian Millhiser about how the legislative record in North Carolina documented North Carolina’s racist gut-out-the-vote motives and actions and how the Tarheel GOP is doubling-down on the deception.
Long-Term Goals? 0
Thom and Jared Yates Sexton wonder whether Trump is looking beyond the campaign to a media venture, sort of like this:
I don’t buy it.
I don’t think that Trump is capable of “plans,” at least not as most of us understand the term.
If he were, he’d not have left a trail of broken dreams and failed businesses.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Daniel Ruth reiterates that Republican concerns over almost non-existent “voter fraud” is a con and a fraud.
Details at the link.
Afterthought:
It’s a comment on Republicanism that its adherents know that they cannot win a fair election.