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Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan says he didn't run a marathon in less than three hours as he claimed in a nationally broadcast interview.
The candidate acknowledged Saturday he had misstated his marathon time by more than an hour.
He released a statement correcting the record after Runner's World magazine found evidence he had completed one marathon and finished in just over four hours.
Ryan told radio host Hugh Hewitt last month he had run a "two hour and fifty-something" marathon. That's a pace of less than 7 minutes per mile for the 26.2 mile course - extremely fast for recreational runners.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/01/13611931-paul-ryan-says-he-misstated-marathon-claim?lite
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)A LIE soooooo big everyone knows you are self-deluded
arcane1
(38,613 posts)He rounded down to "two hour and fifty-something"
Jeez
lunatica
(53,410 posts)He was just misunderstood.
gulliver
(13,142 posts)He needs to be asked for a clarification on his clarification. And while they are at it, they need to ask his brother Tobin if he gave Ryan "a good ribbing over this at dinner tonight." That sounds like a fishy attempt to make this all funny. It is hard to imagine a brother giving his Vice Presidential nominee brother "a good ribbing" over something that makes him a liar. How's that funny? How is that a ribbing?
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)"In fairness to @PaulRyanVP, one does tend to run pretty damn fast when one's PANTS ARE ON FIRE." #LyinRyan
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)Is "misstated claim" a metaphor for "telling a lie" now?
If he lies about running a marathon, how can we trust him on other issues? Such as Medicare, or the Janesville plant that closed under Dumbya, which he is blaming Obama for?
The man is a liar and can't be trusted.
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)Fella couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it....
"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."
PCIntern
(25,347 posts)Oh...sorry...I mis-stated that...it really isn't you know...My brother gave me a good joshing on that one at the dinner table...
But I DID get your attention....and apparently that's all that counts.
Raven
(13,872 posts)could "misremember" their running time, especially if it was under 3. I suspect that this guy lost the vote of every runner in America over his gratuitious lie.
Phentex
(16,330 posts)a few minutes maybe, but NOT an hour!
subterranean
(3,427 posts)11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)So go the days of Paul's lies.
treestar
(82,383 posts)alterfurz
(2,467 posts)malaise
(267,834 posts)He's a marathon LIAR
Cleita
(75,480 posts)Disgusting people.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)LuvLoogie
(6,855 posts)He said he ran "two hour and fifty-something" marathon. "Something" could mean anything--an additional 1:10 even! Remember, Romney said that he presented enough documents so that people could "understand something of my finances."
These guys do not lie! They BULLLL --fucking-- SHIT !!!!
gulliver
(13,142 posts)In America there is nothing more damning. He sullied Sports. That's like spitting in the face of the American athlete. No one is going to want him representing America in anything. He hasn't heard the last of this one.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)alterfurz
(2,467 posts)...that he's a sociopath." -- Andy Borowitz
Lyin' Ryan's marathon tall tale + Dirty Chairy's debate debacle =
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)alterfurz
(2,467 posts)...his color has never been better!
renate
(13,776 posts)Cha
(295,929 posts)666?
I like that Chairots of LIAR!
Mustn't forget ol mitt, though..he's a bigger Liar 'cause he's older.
alterfurz
(2,467 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 4, 2012, 11:54 AM - Edit history (1)
Cha
(295,929 posts)vademocrat
(1,089 posts)ailsagirl
(22,842 posts)spanone
(135,636 posts)it used to be a LIE
ailsagirl
(22,842 posts)jimlup
(7,968 posts)Any runner would know their time for the marathon instantly. Twenty years later I recall my PR of 3 hours 45 minutes 48 seconds ... Ryan is no better than a teenager exaggerating to try to impress.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)when in fact he rode a bus and walked through the shopping mall.
A marathon under 3 hours is extraordinary -- world class racing.
A marathon over 4 hours is pretty darned good good for a regular guy, but nothing like a 3 hour result.
It wasn't a little exaggeration. It wasn't a white lie. It wasn't faulty memory.
It was a snot-nosed punk who has been a big fish in a little pond, never held accountable for anything his entire life. Welcome to the big stage, Paul Ryan.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)as a former marathoner who once almost made the starting line of a sub 3 hour attempt.... no sub 3 hours in the marathon is not "world class racing" ... not even national class actually. It's good but nothing that will even place in most small local marathons actually - Just sayin'
Don't get me wrong it says a lot about Ryan's character (or lack there of).
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)The best times ever in the most favorable courses in the most favorable conditions are just over 2 hours. Ryan claimed "2 hours, 50-something". So he was not claiming world record time, but (correct me if I am wrong) it seems to me that sub-3 is still a very elite result. I would think it would never happen that a person would run one race in their life and that would be under 3.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)Only truly gifted distance runners would be able to do it in a first time out kind of situation.
Apparently Ryan didn't think anyone would bother to check his comment. It says a great deal about who he is.
panader0
(25,816 posts)He ran "over" 4 hours. It's not misspeaking, it's lying. If he had said "just over three hours", it could be construed as misspeaking.
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Mariana
(14,849 posts)That's what I think.
Cha
(295,929 posts)Like the one about President Obama closing the auto plant in 2008?
Whisp
(24,096 posts)PD Turk
(1,289 posts)Euphimisms for LYING. Why does the press keep soft pedaling and letting them get away with this shit?
Oh yeah, I forgot. IOKIYAR.
spanone
(135,636 posts)I'm sure my dad would have bought that one
morningfog
(18,115 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)is a liar and a fraud.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)I have a sixteen inch penis.
I'm sorry, I misstated. I have a six-inch penis.
Because a six-inch and an 16-inch penis are easy to confuse, you see.
Nothing wrong with a 4-hour time for a marathon; it's a bit more than a 9-minute mile. Perfectly respectable, and twice that of an average walking pace. No reason to lie... but he did anyway.
Raster
(20,996 posts)Answer: His lips are moving.
Puglover
(16,380 posts)and finished in 4 hours and 5 minutes. You don't forget stuff like that.