Republican Lies category archive

We went out to a local restaurant last night. One television was tuned to sports; the other, to Fox (the volume was off on both, thank heavens). I was facing the Fox News one, from which, I could tell from the crawls, the anchorblonde was vomiting lie after lie.

Shaun Mullen explains how it works. A nugget:

The Republican playbook has been simple:

* Avoid abstract ideas and appeal to the emotions.
* Constantly repeat just a few ideas by using stereotyped phrases.
* Always give only one side of the argument.
* Continuously criticize your opponents.
* Pick out one “enemy” in particular for special vilification.

This playbook would be immediately recognizable to students of the Third Reich. It was employed, almost word for word, with insidious effectiveness by Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler’s minister of propaganda.

Read the rest.

Via Juanita Jean.

Calling the roll.

Who can do it better?

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog, where the rest of the post is Chris-crossed.

Bobby Jindal.

Paul Ryan edition.

Remember, in Wingnut World, there is no truth, only soundbites.

The strategy is simple.

When you know that the majority of the public won’t vote for you and you know that your supporters are conquests of the “Southern strategy” determined to vote under any circumstance, do everything you can to keep everyone else from voting.

Almost a third of North Carolina’s 100 counties have received permission from the State Board of Elections to reduce early-voting hours heading into the May 6 primary below what last year’s elections overhaul law demanded of them.

The law, pushed through by state Republican leaders, remains a divisive issue with legal challenges as the upcoming primary provides a key test of how new rules will work before the November general election.

It is superfluous to point out the the Republican Party is no longer a political party. I’m not quite sure what it has become, but I think that “subterfuge” comes closest.

Gutting out the vote in Ohio.

At my local rag, Darryl Lease considers the latest tactic of the Republican Gut Out the Vote effort.

Dick Polman thinks it’s because they keep getting away with it.

The latest mendacious whopper about the health reform law – supposedly, it’s gonna throw two million people outta work! – will likely beneft the GOP on midterm election day. It doesn’t matter that the claim is a blatant lie; what matters is that the ginned-up conservative base is conditioned to believe it.

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I once overheard one of my neighbors say to someone, “[Redacted], every other word out of your mouth is a lie.” (And he was correct, but that’s another story.)

And that person wasn’t even a Republican.

Via C&L.

Via C&L.

The lies, followed by the truth.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

The three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and Republican talking points.

Kansas gets creative in the art of disenfranchisement.

Why are Republicans so frightened of the electorate?

(Yeah, I know. The question answers itself.)