GOP Convention Shows How Little the Truth Matters to Them
The usual BS’ers took to the podium on the last night of the GOP convention. An addled Clint Eastwood was the sad highlight of the night.
The usual BS’ers took to the podium on the last night of the GOP convention. An addled Clint Eastwood was the sad highlight of the night.
Mitt Romney’s convention speech was watched 25 million Americans, which is 13 million fewer viewers than watched John McCain accept the Republican nomination in 2008.
Mitt Romney proved once again that he is not really good at this being a Republican thing, as his personal aide tweeted a pic of him watching the RNC convention on C-SPAN, not Fox News.
How bad was Mitt Romney’s acceptance speech? According to Intrade, the odds of Obama being reelected have increased from 55.7% before the speech to 56.8% after.
Republicans made their convention a festival of lies, but the biggest lie was one of omission. No speaker dared mention the deficit inflating five trillion dollar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Republican National Convention set new records – and lows – for blatant dishonesty and the mainstream media makes it all possible
Mitt Romney delivered an acceptance speech that stretched, massaged, distorted, and flat out violated the truth. Here are the five biggest lies uttered by Romney in Tampa.
The speakers are all plugged into the same outlet. Obama as job-killing monster; the end is near and the ongoing distortion of the President’s you didn’t build that statement.
The GOP’s Mitt makeover isn’t going over well with American television viewers. Compared to night two of the 2008 Republican convention, viewership is down by 17 million.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is praising President Obama’s support for his constitutional amendment and movement to overturn Citizens United.
If Republicans are attempting to make an impression on voters, they are reveaing themselves as mean-spirited with no love for the American people or this country.
Personhood fell victim to its own dishonesty yesterday in Colorado, even as the Romney campaign called the abortion debate a distraction
Paul Ryan took the stage in Tampa and peppered his speech with lies, falsehoods distortions and exaggerations. There were many to choose from, but here are the five biggest lies.
President Obama made some big news today by announcing that he supports a constitutional amendment like the one proposed by Bernie Sanders to overturn Citizens United.
Sarah Palin has taken to Facebook to complain that Fox News has canceled all of her scheduled interviews during their coverage of the Republican Convention.
Ann Romney targeted women voters with a speech that was a mix of pure corn syrup, and blatant lies.
Ann Romney lectured Hispanics today that they should focus on issues this time around, and warned them to ‘wake up’.
While admitting Romney’s welfare to work ads are less than truthful, Gov Sam Brownback (R-KS) told us we shouldn’t focus on little things — like Romney’s lies, the truth or policy.
The rebranding of the GOP and Mitt Romney took a hit last night, when RNC attendees threw nuts at a CNN African American camerawoman and said ‘This is how we feed animals!’
America is fracturing apart and when these heavily-armed groups begin shooting it is all down to Republicans inciting opposition to President Obama and violence against the government.
The Republican Dream apparently being one where children will be forced into life by Big Patriarchy but allowed to die in poverty after that
House Republicans are already threatening to deny disaster relief funding for Hurricane Isaac unless they get more budget cuts.
There may be a Revolution within the RNC. The RNC is violating Robert’s Rules of Order and is being broadcasted on the Interweb.
Rush Limbaugh hoped today that Hurricane Isaac kills lots of poor Democrats in New Orleans, so that Louisiana can become a more Republican state.
Republicans have spent the past four years fearmongering that Obama is coming for their guns, but at the 2012 convention, the GOP has banned all guns and weapons.
Drinking games to liven up the GOP convention.Take a shot every time a speaker calls Obama a socialist! Do a keg stand for each each personality present who represents an assault on women’s rights!
The Todd Akin, Tom Smith one-two media gut punch is hiding the fact that three quarters of those polled oppose the Republican Party’s no exceptions anti-abortion plank.
The mainstream media has largely ignored the fact that Mitt Romney’s racist lies are not a change or anything new.
John Stemberger tosses facts aside to claim that only Christianity could create the American experience and only Christianity can save it
The eve of the Republican convention was a bad day for ALEC as five more national and global corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council have cut ties with the group.
Republicans delayed their convention a day, taking no chances with Isaac. There will be no political chances taken with the base either.
Rush Limbaugh is claiming that President Obama is manipulating the forecasted path of Hurricane Isaac in order to hurt the Republican Party.
According to new poll by the Pew Research Center, more Americans are interested in Bill Clinton’s convention speech (52%) than Mitt Romney’s (44%).
Chris Matthews called RNC Chairman Reince Priebus out on Romney’s blatant race card playing via Romney’s inaccurate Welfare to Work ads and the birther joke.
Republicans adopted positions in their platform which are steeped in ideological purity that defines the party as angry, white, patriarchal, and paranoid.
Most of us like a little reality in our diet, but the Republican Convention seems to be focused more on how to mainstream the crazy
The Obama campaign responded to Mitt Romney’s attempt at Hollywood image makeover with a bit of comedy worthy of wide release.
While Americans are still demanding that he release his tax returns, Mitt Romney went on national television to discuss the virtues of buttermilk pancakes.
Ann Romney announced from one of the couple’s vacation homes that you people had her all wrong. Ann gets you, because she shops at Costco and makes buttermilk pancakes!
Rubio claimed Republicans were ‘protecting the rights of a human being to live,’ suggesting that pregnant women are not human beings.
Neil Armstrong’s passing seems to coincide with the end of American exceptionalism and signals the beginning of a new era in American history that, if Republicans have their way, rejects science.
Conservatives have steadily been eroding the power of unions in the wake of Citizens United since they are their only liberal financial foe
We have had it drilled into us that storms are not storms – I think it’s quite obvious that Isaac is God’s answer to the Republican platform
Mitt Romney learns the hard way that birtherism doesn’t pay in this amazing 15 second destruction put out by the Obama campaign.
An South Carolina Democratic Luncheon meeting attendee challenging the presence of a Republican spy, triggers a DINO defense of Republicans.
The mysterious hacktivist group may have struck again and this time, Mitt Romney’s taxes may have been the target.
When Romney said that no-one asked to see his birth certificate, he really told Americans that he is a pandering racist who thinks too highly of himself.
All Big Corporations would be Olympic Gold Medal Winners with a Romney Ryan 2012 Presidential Election win!
Thanks to the margin of error in polling, the rather surreal scenario suggests that the actual number of black folks who do not want Romney to be president is less than zero.
‘This is personal now.’ Women explain why they can no longer support the Republican Party, and instead are voting for President Obama.
In a brief statement, Todd Akin essentially told the Republican Party to forget about defeating Claire McCaskill because he is going to be in the race until November.
While claiming that he was illustrating the absurdity of the situation, Rush Limbaugh blamed President Obama and class warfare for the Empire State Building shooting.
The Obama campaign put the hammer down on Romney’s attempt to go birther by labeling him a birther and calling out his desperate dog whistle plea to the GOP.
Perhaps Jon Husted doesn’t understand that uniformity and fairness are not interchangeable when it comes voting rights.
With fiscal cliff in sight, Republicans will not accept anything less than austerity measures that guarantee to kill 2 million jobs in 2013.
Warren says he canceled his planned forum with Obama and Romney because of incivility but the real reason was neither man was interested
Not even trying to fool anyone anymore, the Romney campaign has admitted that their energy policy was written by the oil and gas industry.
. Sierra’s Beyond Coal project does only so much, and it has not recognized to date that ending Mountaintop Removal for the human health disaster science is now demonstrating that it is.
In 2010, one of the companies where Romney parked his money sent out a letter from its advisers to their investors warning of a coming fiscal catastrophe if the GOP took control in the midterms.
Ironies abound as the only network that will be carrying Ann Romney’s convention speech is that the same broadcast network that her husband has promised to kill (PBS).
MI Republican candidate for Congress Kerry Bentivolio told his students his goal was to make them cry and he added, ‘You’re just a paycheck to me.’
Every Republican who opposed infusing federal money into the economy, or obstructed President Obama’s jobs plans, knew they were stunting the economy and killing jobs.
Bryan Fischer is upset that his word isn’t good enough; that his Christian male voice does not invalidate a woman’s experience and science
Newsweek isn’t apologizing for their coat hanger cursor, with which they mocked women’s lives. Instead, they send US customers to an anti-Obama article on the Daily Beast.
A Republican candidate for Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Sheriff won’t rule out the use of deadly force to stop an ‘elective’ legal abortions.
President Obama asked Mitt Romney the fundamental question of this election. Obama asked Romney. ‘How many teachers’ jobs are worth tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires?
Buried in the latest results of the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll is an 18 point swing in economic optimism for President Obama.
Rush Limbaugh is even blaming Obama for the weather. On his radio show, Limbaugh claimed that Hurricane Issac is an Obama conspiracy to shut down the Republican convention.
Paul Ryan says women won’t be distracted by ‘side issues’ of Ryan’s positions on rape, which align closely with Republican Representative Todd Akin’s views.
Just when you thought voting rights were safe in Wisconsin, Attorney-General, J.B. Van Hollen decided to appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn rulings that struck down Walker’s Voter ID law.
The insincerity of GOP Akin-rebukes have become apparent with the revelation that Romney accepted the endorsement of the doctor behind Todd Akin
Todd Akin is claiming that he is the victim of his legitimate rape scandal, and now he is circulating a petition of support and trying to raise money off his comments.
There are 20 churches in Prague, OK, and one high school valedictorian who was denied her diploma for saying hell.
Newsweek changed the cursor on their Tumblr account to a coat hanger in order to support the GOP platform, mock HuffPo, and women’s reproductive rights.
Last Friday, Ohio’s Secretary of State Jon Husted took the unprecedented step to preserve his block the black vote directive.
As Akin begs forgiveness for his words, not one Republican apologizes for the mountain of legislation that proves ‘legitimate rape’ is a GOP policy, not a gaffe.
There has been a firestorm over comments made by Todd Akin regarding what he calls ‘legitimate rape,’ and although it is a big story, it is just a microcosm of the entire GOP’s overall view of women.
Todd Akin is running out of friends. Even an anti-abortion group wants him to quit. But his biggest loss will be Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS
Fox News and Rupert Murdoch’s other News Corp properties hate Obama so much that they have donated nearly $59,000 so far this year to reelect him.
Fox News is starting to freak out over Todd ‘Legitimate Rape’ Akin’s refusal to quit the Missouri Senate race.
While there are some Republicans holding on to the myth about voter fraud, others are more candid about their intent, not to mention the inherent racism that goes with it.
Romney and Ryan are trying to run away from Akin this morning, saying they are for abortion in the case of rape, but history tells a different story.
In a newsletter the Virginia Republican Committee is telling Republicans that if President Obama wins reelection, armed revolution will be their only option.
Missouri Republican Todd Akin says that women who are legitimately raped don’t get pregnant and that abortion punishes the child, not the rapist
In a desperate attempt to change the subject, the Romney campaign is now claiming that you don’t care about his tax returns.
In America, the crackpots are close to controlling the very government that they are bound and determined to destroy.
Instead of calling out Paul Ryan’s GM plant closing lie, CNN asked if Ryan was fibbing on the campaign trail about Obama.
It seems ironic that the advocates of small government have established a nightmarish and confusing bureaucratic process that will deny Americans the ID they need in order to vote.
Obama campaign spokesperson Stephanie Cutter defended Vice President Biden from Republican attacks about his competency by calling Sarah Palin mentally incompetent.
By accusing Obama of racism toward white people, the Fight Bigotry Super PAC is the perfect haven for real racists to invest their money.
Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence, even control policy
Bill Maher has the guts to say what the mainstream media won’t Voter ID laws are nothing more than a racist attempt to suppress the votes of African-Americans.
Prosecutors in Kansas dropped the remaining 32 charges against Planned Parenthood bringing an end to, anti-choice zealot, Phill Kline’s witch-hunt masquerading as a prosecution.
President Obama responded to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s rash of Medicare lies by setting record straight on what a Romney presidency would mean for Medicare.
Just like Sarah Palin’s bridge to nowhere, Paul Ryan is a secret pork lover who blames President Obama for his own federal spending on camera.
The GOP’s so called policy wonk spread lies about Medicare to America’s seniors that were taken from Koch Brothers funded television ads.
In Ohio’s case, the methods may be comparatively subtle, but there is nothing about the new rules that makes voting easy.
Ryan’s request for stimulus money proves he knows that the path to prosperity is not severe austerity measures and tax cuts for the wealthy, but government infusion of cash into the economy.
David Barton’s Christian publisher may have dropped his book of lies and who better to save lies about a Founding Father than Glenn Beck?