Liar liar pants on fire (a compilation of "burning" reviews)
"Liar Liar Pants on Fire" Ryan
The reviews (taken from multiple DU threads)
Michael Cohen (the Guardian): "Never have I heard a major political speech so brazenly and stunningly dishonest."
Jonathan Cohn suggested last night's address may have been the "most dishonest convention speech" ever delivered, and I can't think of a close second.
Steve Benen: "It was a truly breathtaking display of brazen dishonesty. Paul Ryan looked America in the eye and without a hint a shame, lied to our face...Ryan lied about President Obama's auto-industry rescue...Ryan lied about Medicare...Ryan lied about the debt downgrade...Ryan lied about the Simpson-Bowles commission...Ryan lied about his plans for the safety net...Ryan lied about the debt...Ryan lied about the Recovery Act...Ryan lied about small businesses."
FoxNews: 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.
Michael Tomasky (Daily Beast): Analysis of the fact that Ryan can lie the way he does requires the skills of a psychologist.
Josh Marshall (TPM): Two things were unquestionably true about Paul Ryan’s speech last night: One, it was unquestionably a well-written and well-presented speech and Two, it was filled with a lot of out and out lies or things that were so hypocritically or comically misleading as almost to amount to the same.
Borowitz Report: In his speech to the Republican National Convention last night, Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan test-drove what the Romney-Ryan campaign says will be a major theme for the 2012 Republican campaign: “lying about everything.”
Boston Herald: Laying out the first plans for his party’s presidential ticket, GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan took some factual shortcuts Wednesday night when he attacked President Barack Obama’s policies on Medicare, the economic stimulus and the budget deficit.
Joan Walsh (Salon): nastiness and lies...
Jonathan Chait (New York Magazine): The political blogosphere has taken apart Ryan’s brazen dishonesty brick by brick so that barely anything remains. I have been writing about his dishonesty for three years. I have the equivalent of a master’s degree in Ryan lie-ology. I’ve heard many of his lurid fantasies innumerable times and I haven’t got it in me to go through it all again — his deep dishonesty largely reflects the fundamental gap between the radicalism of his agenda and his need for public acceptance.
Jonathan Cohen (The New Republic): The Most Dishonest Convention Speech ... Ever?
factcheck.org: Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention contained several false claims and misleading statements.
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