Ryan did not just start lyin'--he's been at it for years

[eridani]

http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/72-72/13305--paul-ryan-was-always-lyin

Ryan seems to have fallen victim to circumstances he didn’t quite foresee. The Romney campaign has spent the last several weeks practically daring the national press corps to call out its lies. Well beyond the usual exaggerations of a national campaign, Romney has built its entire message around two accusations — “you didn’t build that” and “just send them a check” — that are obviously false. A day before Ryan’s speech, a Romney adviser told reporters, “We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” The media that had spent the last two and a half years nuzzling gently in Ryan’s lap had been prodded with sharp sticks and reacted in the predictable fashion, though probably not predictable to Ryan himself.

The thing about Ryan is that he has always resided in a counter-factual universe. He is a product of the hermetically sealed right-wing subculture. Many of the facts taken for granted by mainstream economists have never penetrated his brain. Ryan burst onto the national scene with a dense, fact-laden attack on the financing of Obama’s health-care bill that was essentially a series of hallucinations, pseudo-facts cooked up and recirculated by conservative apparatchiks who didn’t know what they were talking about or didn’t care. His big-think speeches reflect the influence of fact-free conservatives and collapse under scrutiny.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. Our culture has embraced the lie and liars, refuses to call a liar a liar and often promotes them

just to make it clear that they don't give a fuck about the truth. Ryan and his ilk did not spring forth from nothing, many facets of American culture helped create this concept that it is bad to call a liar a liar, while lying itself is never really lying, it is 'having bad information' or 'I just misspoke'.
The day we as a people utterly reject lies and the liars who tell them we will make a huge step forward in politics, arts, business and every area in which trust in an important feature. I say a person caught in a lie should be shunned, period. But America says 'let's make him VP because it is worse to call out a liar than to be a liar'.