Republican Lies category archive

Of course he knew. It was not credible that his aides would pull a stunt like that on their own.

A former aide to Governor Christie said the governor lied about his knowledge of his administration’s involvement in the George Washington Bridge lane closures, according to a new court filing.

Christina Renna, who worked under deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly, texted: “Are you listening? He just flat out lied about senior staff and (former deputy chief of staff Bill) Stepien not being involved.” Renna, who was listed in the papers as Christina Genoveses. She added that if emails were uncovered in court discovery, “it could be bad.”

A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling upholding North Carolina’s gut-out-the-vote law. A snipped (emphasis added):

In the opinion, the panel of judges said that the law restricted voting in ways that “disproportionately affected African Americans” and that its provisions targeted “African Americans with almost surgical precision.” It said the state’s defense of the law was “meager.”

Sometimes even a court needs to point out the obvious.

More at the link.

Joseph DiStephano dissects Trumps lies about taxes in the U. S.

Aside:

It won’t do any good. Trump is merely repeating a lie that has been Republican orthodoxy for over a generation.

Werner Herzog’s Bear points out that Donald Trump’s political success is built on decades of Republican lies. Indeed, Mr. Bear’s catalog of Republican lies rivals Homer’s catalog of ships. Here’s just a few from the list:

Trump perhaps understood something that others in the more august corners of our media have failed to see: the modern conservative movement is built on lies that are endlessly reinforced through the propaganda arms of Fox News and talk radio. I’ll name a few. The lie that cutting taxes on the wealthy leads to prosperity for all. The lie that people are poor due solely to their own laziness and other shortcomings. The lie that America is an exceptional nation that is the greatest country that ever existed. The lie that American history is an uninterrupted march of freedom. The lie that institutional racism does not exist. The lie that global warming does not exist. The lie that evolution is merely a controversial theory. The lie that there is a war on Christmas.

That’s just part of his list. Follow the link for the rest.

I do have one quibble.

I do not believe that “our media have failed to see” any of this.

I believe that our corporate media, with a few exceptions as unheeded as Cassandra, have actively chosen not to see it; they prefer horse-race coverage and the broadcast ratings it brings, false equivalences, made-up scandals such as Whitewater and Benghazi, and the on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand both-sides-do-it narrative to accuracy, principle, and truth.

Like little Beltway Pilates, they wash their hands even as they cash their checks.