Even Fox News Says that Paul Ryan Lied Like Crazy During His Speech
Perhaps Fox News needs to do a royal takedown of some of its analysts. Right after Juan Williams mysteriously disappeared from the air after referring to Mitt Romney’s spouse as a “corporate wife,” Fox News contributor Sally Kohn wrote about the numerous factual inaccuracies of speech presented by Vice Presidential nominee, Paul Ryan.
In her article, Kohn describes Ryan’s speech with three words: “Dazzling, deceiving and distracting.”
She says that Ryan did a wonderful job of letting the world know who he is:
“So, Ryan’s primary job tonight was to introduce himself and make himself seem likeable, and he did that well. The personal parts of the speech were very personally delivered, especially the touching parts where Ryan talked about his father and mother and their roles in his life. And at the end of the speech, when Ryan cheered the crowd to its feet, he showed an energy and enthusiasm that’s what voters want in leaders and what Republicans have been desperately lacking in this campaign.”
But in spite of her praise for Ryan’s appearance, Kohn then mentions that he was not entirely forthright in his message. She literally accuses Ryan of “blatant lies” in the speech, pointing to numerous factual inaccuracies to bolster her accusations:
“On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.
The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth.”
Kohn notes that while Ryan points to the downgrade in America’s credit rating after President Obama’s spending, she states that it was Republican opposition to increasing the debt ceiling that caused the downgrade in the first place. She also mentions that a GM plant shut down that was laid on President Obama actually happened during the presidency of George W. Bush. Finally, she stated that Ryan falsely accused President Obama of cutting the Medicare budget.
“Elections should be about competing based on your record in the past and your vision for the future, not competing to see who can get away with the most lies and distortions without voters noticing or bother to care. Both parties should hold themselves to that standard. Republicans should be ashamed that there was even one misrepresentation in Ryan’s speech but sadly, there were many.”
Kohn’s words are likely going to lead to more heated debate, since Fox News has consistently been a strong backer of the Right Wing. The Obamas said that they chose not to watch the Republican National convention, and sparks flew when Herman Cain accused MSNBC’s Chris Matthews of being a racist. It must be election season, since this is getting strange.
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what does anyone expect? Of course they are liars.
I’m glad journalists have had enough and are finally calling out the lies.
This is what they do all the time.
They distort the facts for their political gains.But let the truth be told we are not going to fall for their LIES.
I emphatically disagree with the notion that it “must be election season because this is getting ‘strange’.” The truth is, we as a people, have been under the auspices of “strangeness” in this part of the globe from day one… As to the lies, well it’s no longer a secret that the whole political ideology in the USA was built on lies and it’s still being maintained accordingly. Have we been bamboozled/hoodwinked to believe that literacy tests, poll tax and the grandfather clause were moral/ethical policies bestowed specifically towards ‘Negroes’ for the purpose of inclusion? Political pundits always give the populace jargon that they’re pleased to hear, but the real gorilla in the back room is the elite whom have more compassion towards satisfying the wishes of the status quo, (based solely on skin color as opposed to intelligence) and aren’t really interested in helping Blacks attain their rightful place in this part of the globe.
Until we wake-up and solidify & become independent we’ll continue to live under strange/unethical circumstances controlled by lies, ugly behavior & violence. It’s really that simple…
Thanks GoodGiant! Enough said. Let the Church say amen!!
Well stated Good giant. Until we realize that the constitution is not for US and that we need to support each other, we will always be blind to the truth.
We have become like the Russians in that we believe our own lies.
The truth will come out during the debates….and the GOP candidates will have a hard time talking the specifics of their “already known” policy positions without p*****g off a lot of people!!
People, for the most part, believe what they want to believe. If that were not true there would be no religious zealots. We are succumbing to delusion to expect truth from a nation that told us that Columbus DISCOVERED America, Moses parted the sea, and the earth was made in six days. Ryan, with his lies, might well be OBAMAS biggest problem. You can expect more to follow. The bigger the lie, the better it works. Hitler proved that.
Paul Ryan is still basically a punk frat boy. He believes he is entitled to tell blatant lies. Mitt Romney is the older, larger, and wiser version of him. It is a white elitist attitude. There is nothing new about it. Ryan got too cute with it. So people on his side felt insulted by it.
Ryan is what I think of as the one to fulfill the need. He is todays “White Hope” for getting the country back in order of what is their God given right to be incharge no matter how many lies they tell. President Obama was expected, even by blacks, to clean up 8 years of mess in one year. Do people not realize that he didn’t start the war? BUSH caused this mess! but you can’t blame the white boy for doing anything wrong.
Look at how many white males are not in prison for doing the same crime that a black male is serving unfair time. Sentenced in some cases by a black judge who is afraid if they show any care for a black that he or she will lose their position. Whites are sent to camps where they can continue their education and learn a skill. Why so much unemployment? look at the laws that keep our young men from getting jobs because they have a police record, not that they did the crime. Wake up people! Not many politicians are caring about the citizens, they like the game which gives them fame.
ACTUALLY, FOX news did not say Paul Ryan lied. The person who said he “lied” is a liberal NEWS CONTRIBUTER to Fox. Again, Fox is balanced unlike the rest of the media. The liberal “contributers” usually don’t know of what they speak.
How pathetic! bowatkin misleads Black Blue Dog’s readers with the uttely false headline claiming that “Even Fox News Says that Paul Ryan Lied Like Crazy During His Speech”
It took rochesternative to point out that Kohn is a liberal democrat and Obama supporter.
Yet, the first ten posters here accept bowatkin’s deliberate deceit without question. Additionally, bowatkin doesn’t include a single bit of evidence to support Kohn’s accusations. He just presents her unsubstantiated claims. Why didn’t bowatkin include Kohn’s proof in this column?
Who’s being deceived by whom?
We now live in Murdock world. he control every thing we consume in the western world in England, Australia, and now in the USA. The only western ation that Murdock does not dictate is in Germany. It wont be long before control their media too. Get used to the LIES, that is what they do best. Lie steal and cover it up.
Demons from h**l. Remember the Indians said that they speak with forky tongue. This has not change. Pray and Vote Obama 2012
They never can tell the truth and the sad part Is that the Republicans at the RNC believes Him this Is sad and sickend at the same time. I guess when you lie so much you began to belive It Shame on you Paul Ryan I don’t belive nothing that comes out of your mouth.
Ryan is no more a less a liar than the biggest liar of them all – President Obama. Newsflash: just because many of you worship Obama as if he is the second coming of Jesus Christ, does not make him a pillar of virtue and integrity.
He is the quintessential politician who will say and do just about anything for a second term and if he was a Republican, many of you would want to take him out back to the woodshed for some serious b**t whipping and you know it.
Have most blacks even looked at some of the extreme policies and plans the “perfect Democrats” have in store for us over the next four years? Ah, I can see it. More people struggling, out of work and on public assistance. The GLBT and all the other “attached alphabets” will be happy as a lark because they get to “be themselves” and run the country in all these think tank and public policy positions as well as in the echelons of liberal corporate America.
And, if you think you have less rights now, just wait and see when they take over and restrict what you can say and do in the fear that you will end up on some “homophobic hit list” sanctioned by the Obama administration. But, I guess that will be okay as long as those that desire them can receive “abortions on demand” for their sexually promiscuous lifestyle choices that that rest of us continuously have to pay for: in more ways than one.
Why some black people are so supportive of a man that did virtually nothing for them when they barely held jobs, could food on their tables or keep a roof over their heads is absolutely astounding to me!!!! How can Christians support a DNC and Obama platform of same-s*x marriage, abortion in the most extreme cases, illegal immigration and other policies that will almost surely have a deleterious effect on the black community is beyond me.
It is worth saying that when we follow and bow down to a false God who does not have our best interest at heart and is leading us to h**l, we deserve what we get!!!
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Ryan is no more a liar than the biggest liar of them all – President Obama. Newsflash: just because many of you worship Obama as if he is the “second coming of Jesus Christ”, does not make him a pillar of virtue and integrity. If the mainstream media ever took the time to really re-vet him, we might be surprised at what we find out. But, the earth would rotate off its axis before any “feet kissing” member of the mainstream media ever peeled back the curtains on the Obama façade. And, by the way, I have found Fox News to be much more “fair and balanced” than the other cable and mainstream media outlets that continually worship this President in one way or another so that the public is not regularly presented with a complete picture of this man or his presidency.
Obama is the quintessential politician who will say and do just about anything for a second term and if he was a Republican, many of you would want to take him out back to the woodshed for some serious b**t whipping and you know it.
Have most blacks even looked at some of the extreme policies and plans the “perfect Democrat” has in store for us over the next four years? Ah, I can see it. More people struggling, out of work and on public assistance. The GLBTs and all the other “attached alphabets” will be happy as larks because they get to “be themselves” and run the country as “Obama surrogates” furthering their own agendas and working in increasingly more visible and powerful positions from public policy to the highest echelons of “liberal corporate America.”
In Obama, I see a man more concerned about promulgating homosexual freedoms and tolerance at the United Nations than religious freedom; which has always been the case under previous administrations. I see a man that represents a party that initially removed the word “God” from its platform and because they received so much flak, had to be told to put it back in by the so-called “Christian” nominee, Obama. But, many of the delegates and others were none too happy as evident by the loud choruses of “No” and “boos.” And, more than likely, Obama only acted before this became a political albatross that threatened to overshadow his campaign and affect his stagnant poll numbers. Sometimes, if we are lucky, we get to see a mere glimpse into the true heart and soul of the Obama machine and the Democratic plantation. And, this incident revealed volumes about where Obama and the Democratic Party want to take this country.
Sadly, this is what the Democratic Party has become: an extremely left-leaning, liberal party that promotes socialist values and anti-Christian policies where the most extreme have more rights to propagate their agendas than ordinary Americans with traditional or centrist views of family values and fiscal responsibility.
If you think you have fewer rights now, just wait and see when gays and other extreme liberal fringes of the party take over and restrict what you can say and do and you wake up one day and find yourself or someone you care about on some “homophobic hit list” sanctioned by the Obama administration with your reputations besmirched and your livelihoods threatened by false allegations because you are not “liberal or sensitive” enough.
But, I guess that will be okay as long as those that desire them can receive “abortions on demand” for their sexually promiscuous lifestyle choices that that rest of us continuously have to pay for: in more ways than one. But, oh wait, the Obama health care policy mandates contraception coverage, so perhaps more innocent, tiny HUMAN LIVES will be spared by this administration that is supposedly so gung ho on the protection of human rights!!!!
And, if you are lucky enough in this horrible economy to have amassed and maintained some wealth, watch as they try to pass more laws to mandate that you pay your “fair share” even though the top 10 percent earned 48 percent but paid over 70% of personal income taxes!! This administration “parrots” the mantra of the rich paying their “fair share” as some kind of patriotic virtue but gives a pass to the bottom 50% who earned 12% of personal income but paid about 3 % of income tax revenues!!!
Why some black people are so supportive of a man that did virtually nothing for them when they barely held jobs, could put food on their tables or keep a roof over their heads is absolutely astounding to me!!!! How can Christians support a DNC and Obama platform of same-s*x marriage, abortion in the most extreme cases, “de facto amnesty” for over a million illegal immigrants and other policies that will almost assuredly have a deleterious effect on the black community is beyond me?
It is worth saying that when we follow and “bow down” to a FALSE GOD who does not have our best interests at heart and is leading us to h**l, we deserve what we get!!! Well… enjoy the ride because, apparently, the ride is much more important than the destination.
The rich white devils got to lie for they been lieing for many years on many things. For the President on been in office for 4 years the world problem started why before he got in. President Obama come in on a time when the devils planned for many years for they. In Nixon time the was talking about the New World Order then and one before that so we and if not they should know who really made this world as it was and it show wasn’t our first Black President of the State United the truth will let us free and the world forward,put President Obama back let him finish what he have started as he come President. Peace