Republican Lies category archive
None Dare Call It Terrorism 0
Alfred Doblin points out that, in fact, it is.
I guess Adam Lanza, who shot 26 people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, was just a man with a weapon. Slaughtering 26 people — 20 were children — was not an act of terrorism because, according to GOP presidential wannabes, a crazed man with a gun killing more than a half-dozen people in a school is not a terrorist. Or James Holmes killing 12 and injuring 70 additional people inside a movie theater in 2012 is not a terrorist.
Read the rest.
The Trump Cycle 0
Jack Ohman spots a pattern:
1. He lies again.
2. He questions the motives of the people who caught him in the lie.
3. He repeats the lie; then he goes up two points in the polls.
More cycling at the link.
Image via Job’s Anger.
“Voodoo Zombie Economics”
0
The Laffable Curve has become another lie that will not die. From John Young:
Sure, tax cuts generate economic activity (as does spending), but never enough to make up for the lost revenue needed to pay for all the government that even so-called small-government types say they need.
Follow the link for evidence that the lie, gibbering and moaning all the while, still shambles its way through the Republican debates.
Take a Carson Ride 0
Ben Carson,
the Volkswagen candidate.
Both images via Job’s Anger. Click either image to see it at that site.
Correlation Is Not Causation 0
Then, again . . . .
In a Nutshell 0
Dick Polman sums up the Republicans’ Benghazi farce:
Follow the link for the play-by-play.
The Scam Cycle 0
Noz explains the workings of the eternal exercise wheels of Republican scamdals. A snippet:
Aside:
Noz misplet “librul media.”
The “Misdirection Play” 0
At Talking Points Memo, Jason Sanford explains how the Republican Party has raised the Misdirection Play to a high art.
Just read it.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Republicans make stuff up.
It’s what they do, because the facts lean left.
The narrator’s faith that
you can’t win the argument if you don’t have the facts
is touchingly heartwarming.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Proposed headline: Hen House Strikes Back at Fox.
Fox News was found in breach of British broadcast code that says, “Factual programmes or items or portrayals of factual matters must not materially mislead the audience.”
More at the link.