Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Modern day conventions are heavily scripted affairs for TV. Every speech is vetted by the campaign and are rehearsed in advance. Nothing occurs at the convention in front of the cameras that has not been previously approved by the campaign. Nothing. The RNC spent the first three days of the convention keeping … Read more
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The GOP's alleged boy genius policy wonk, Ayn Rand fanboy Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), gave his vice presidential nominee acceptance speech last night to the GOP convention. I watched his speech. Paul Krugman is correct. Paul Ryan is The Flimflam Man – NYTimes.com.
His speech was substance free, devoid of any clearly defined policies. At best there were some undefined aspirational goals. The only clearly stated policy was "repeal ObamaCare." Apparently, boy genius did not want to disclose what he would "replace" it with (remember "repeal and replace"?)
Ryan did offer a mish-mash of focus group tested attack lines which have previously been fact checked and found to be false by media fact checkers. As I have posted previously, the "Galt – Gekko 2012" campaign has made a deliberate decision to pursue a Big Lie GOPropaganda campaign. They are saying to the media, "We're going to lie. What are you going to do about it?" This presents a test for the media villagers, who are averse to ever pointing out that someone is blatantly lying.
One thing we know for certain after last night's speech: Paul Ryan is willing to be as much of a shameless shapeshifter and pathological liar as his running mate, Willard "Mittens" Romney. America has never before seen a campaign like this, and it is setting a dangerous precedent.
It was so bad that even the GOPropaganda media arm, FAUX News, was shocked and called out Paul Ryan as a shameless liar. Sally Kohn writes, Paul Ryan’s speech in 3 words | Fox News:
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. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.
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. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Americans should thank God every day that Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 and not Arizona's angry old man, John McCain.
This Neocon war monger has never met a war he did not like. He still harbors dreams of his PNAC Pax Americana empire in the world imposed by U.S. military intervention and occupation.
The birthday boy delivered his speech to the GOP convention on Wednesday. Shorter version: "Four more wars!"
Video below the fold.
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It's not quite as fun as her 16-second brain fart during the gubernatorial debate, but it serves her right after some of the outrageous comments that Gov. Jan Brewer has made recently.
ABC 15 reports VIDEO: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer endorses President Barack Obama at Republican National Convention:
One day after endorsing GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer gave a live interview to MSNBC, apparently slipping up and endorsing his opponent, President Barack Obama.
The video is so hot on the internet, the Governor's office released a statement to ABC15 Wednesday night saying the Governor misspoke, and she isn't the first official to do so amid the noise and chaos of the crowd.
Video below the fold.
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
In case you missed this last night, a pair of Republican National Convention delegates decided to demonstrate their racist side towards an African-American CNN camerawoman. CNN initially did not want to report on this story, not wanting to become the news (and fearing a conservative backlash). Other news organizations commented that CNN has an obligation to report on this because it is news. CNN should reveal details of nut-throwing incident.
Today, CNN briefly addressed this ugly incident. Via TalkingPointsMemo, CNN Goes On Air With Story About RNC Incident:
On air this evening, CNN's Wolf Blitzer called attention to the
network's earlier report on two Republican National Convention attendees
throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman and saying, "This is how we feed animals." The attendees were removed from the Tampa Bay Times Forum after the exchange.
Blitzer called the incident "truly shocking" and said it "hit home"
for everyone at the network. CNN political analyst Donna Brazile said
during the segment she hopes the two attendees have their convention
credentials revoked.
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