Republican Lies category archive

“They throw mud because mud is all they got.”

For example.

Via Bartcop.

The summing up:

Via Political Animal.

Josh Marshall fisks ABC’s John Karl’s non-apology for spreading Republican propaganda in a blatantly–er–let’s just say “erroneous” news report.

(Link fixed.)

Reg Henry counsels caution. A nugget:

In this week of scandal, in which the conservative outrage meters have been howling about administration actions (or inactions), those of us who do not get our aerobic exercise by jumping to conclusions are forced to reconsider our cautious reserve.

This reserve is justified by the experience of recent years. During the Clinton administration, those crying wolf were in full throat over the Whitewater scandal, which wasted much time, cost millions of dollars to investigate and left the Clintons sitting pretty.

(snip)

And so it goes. From the moment President Barack Obama was inaugurated, the hate machine was cranked up. This happened with the last occupant of the White House, too, but that was a Model T hate machine compared with the super-duper, industrial-strength lie mixer rolled out for Mr. Obama. No other president in memory has had to fend off claims that he was not actually an American — and that was just for starters.

If you look at the facts on the supposed scandal, there’s really not much there there.

Rachel Maddow tries to separate truth from fiction, and finds out that one thing is certain: ABC got itself suckered.

Trudy Rubin zeroes in on the scandal:

The scandal is that Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) and some Republican colleagues are dishonoring the memory of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans by making a political circus out of their deaths.

As chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Issa is ready to manipulate the pain and anger of relatives and colleagues of the victims, but shows little interest in making U.S. diplomats safer. The hearing he held last week ignored the real issues raised by Benghazi in favor of promoting conspiracy theories about “talking points” that administration officials used after the tragedy.

Follow the link for her explication of the issues vs. the Republican talking points non-issues.

In the midst of a larger post about one of his favorite subjects,* one in which he has expertise, Dick Destiny pens the ultimate definition of “Republican Think Tanks.”

Heritage Foundation was never a think tank. It’s just another propaganda mill funded by wealth to provide convenient studies and experts for the worst GOP impulses.

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*That is, fear-mongering about made-up technological threats in pursuit of consultancy contracts.

Dick Polman looks at Darrell Issa and sees Geraldo:

I can’t help but recall Geraldo Rivera’s infamous TV documentary about Al Capone. This was in 1986. Geraldo said he’d found the gangster’s secret vault, and promised to open it on live TV.

Do read the rest.

Via C&L.

Chris Hayes parses the propaganda.

A quote from James Inhofe, R–One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, encapsulates the Republican strategy of lies:

There’s no downside if I’m wrong on this.

Via Bob Cesca.

Rachel Maddow reports on the latest tactic in the Republican gut-out-the-vote movement.

Jaded as one might be, Republican hypocrisy is forever new and fresh.

Now, just arriving from the Appalachian Trail:

“Do you think that President Clinton should be condemned for the rest of his life based on a mistake he made in his life?” Sanford asked during a recent debate with his opponent, the Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch.

That would be the same President Clinton that Sanford once voted to impeach.

Ten years ago today, George the Worst patted himself on the back on the carrrier Abraham Lincoln, congratulating himself for victory in the Great and Glorious Patriotic War for a Lie in Iraq.

He turned out to be about ten years early.

Dick Polman looks back. A nugget:

For his (George W. Bush–ed.) defenders, I offer this simple test: Imagine what they’d say if Barack Obama reacted to a 9/11-style domestic terrorist attack by invading the wrong foreign country under false pretenses, and then declaring that “major combat operations” had ended – when, in reality, the major combat operations, the deaths of thousands of American soldiers, the wounded and maiming of tens of thousands more, and the budget-busting expenditure of three trillion dollars, were only just beginning.

Dick Destiny wrote this so I don’t have to.

Maine’s Republican governor mills a big one.

As long as folks who feel free to make up any old thing because it sounds good, ignoring facts completely, can keep getting elected, we will continue to be doomed.