Tag: lies

Posted on

New York Times calls out Romney/Ryan lies and distortions

In an Op/Ed piece in the New York Times, the paper ran an editorial calling out many lies and distortions put out by the Romney/Ryan campaign. And I, for one, am glad.

Run on your record, run on your truth. But don’t lie and distort to make yourself look better.

A few of the issues the New York Times highlights:

Deficit Commission: While Ryan spoke of the Simpson-Bowles commission, what he didn’t mention was that HE was a part of that panel. AND he voted against the commission’s recommendations.

Credit Rating: Ryan talked about the down-grading of the US credit rating blaming the President. What he didn’t mention was that the credit rating was down-graded because the GOP fought raising the debt ceiling for spending that had already happened and had been approved by Congress.

Medicare: Ryan tried to portray the President as “raiding” the Medicare fund of $716 billion dollars. The problem with that is HE himself had already recommended cutting the same amount from Medicare. However, the President’s savings would come not from trimming benefits for current recipients, but from cutting the projected growth in reimbursements to hospitals and insurers over the next decade.

Head over the the New York Times article and take a read.

Posted on

President Obama – “Romney wants ME to apologize?”

Seriously, folks, Romney practically walked into his own pothole here.

He spends months making up lines like “Obama apologizes to our foes” when the President has never done such a thing, and now turns around and says “We should be talking about the issues.” SRSLY?

And now that major news sources are investigating whether Romney has lied about his tenure with Bain Capital, Romney wants the President to apologize? For Romney’s own misstatements?

SRSLY.

Posted on

Romney: Did he leave Bain Capital in 1999 or later?

So the issue is this: Mitt Romney has said he left Bain Capital in February 1999. Now, SEC documents show him to have stayed on as CEO of Bain for approximately three more years.

This matters because Romney has said all the things that happened (like outsourcing jobs and bankrupting companies) after 1999 when he said he wasn’t with the company weren’t his responsibility. But now, maybe they were since he is shown on company documents showing he was still CEO.

What it comes down to is: did Romney lie on SEC documents to protect his own investments and money? Or is he lying to the US public now?

Things that make you go “hmm…”

Posted on

Video: Lies about Amendment One in North Carolina

I expected something very heavy and legally dense when I clicked on this video.

Instead, what I got was a very clear demonstration of the kind of sideways rhetoric that anti-gay groups put out to keep the LGBT community second class citizens.

One person who attended the service called this “A political message disguised as a sermon.” Take a look.

This shows not only the lies but the truths about Amendment One.

Click here to see how you can help stop discrimination in North Carolina.

Posted on

Chris Matthews: Hearings on no Iraq WMD

I watch Chris Matthews “Hardball” everyday. He is absolutely honest, direct and fair with every guest that comes on his show. Democrat or Repub, he demands honesty and direct answers. I’ve seen him call out anyone who tries to double-speak their way out of something.

Yesterday, in light of the fact that more and more people have come forward saying there was no evidence of WMD in Iraq. Over 4,500 American soldiers have died and over 100,000 Iraqis have died. “Curveball” – the Iraqi who said the weapons were there now admits he made it up. Rumsfeld now admits we had no evidence.

The war in Iraq was sold to the US people with the scare tactic that Iraq HAD Weapons of Mass Destruction and they were “coming to get us.” This, after 9/11, made the US people so afraid that they supported the war.

If the last administration had come to the US people and said “Hussein’s a bad guy – we’re going to invade a country that has never attacked us and lose 4,500 American lives to free the Iraqi people” the country never would have supported the war.

We’ve also spent over $770 billion on the war there. Talk about spending and deficits!

Watch Chris Matthew’s end of show yesterday. He tells it straight. I want answers too.