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In the discussion thread: Ever wonder when the GOP figured out they could lie right into Americans faces and get away with it? [View all]

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:44 PM

ashling (19,230 posts)

25. This is all good stuff (the whole thread)

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but let it be noted that the GOP has always lied to our faces. The difference is only in the degree to which we let them get away with it . . .

at least as far back as U.S. Grant

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44 replies	Author	Time	Post
Ever wonder when the GOP figured out they could lie right into Americans faces and get away with it? [View all]	NNN0LHI	Apr 2012	OP
When they saw that the media would not call them on it....	kentuck	Apr 2012	#1
Yep. After they bought the media it was open season on reality.	geckosfeet	Apr 2012	#4
exactly..my first thought when i saw the headline of the post..nt	xiamiam	Apr 2012	#21
bingo!	spanone	Apr 2012	#34
This was my answer too.	stillwaiting	Apr 2012	#40
They started buying up the media right after nixons resignation	madokie	Apr 2012	#42
About a third of the population is stupid or religiously crazy or both	CanonRay	Apr 2012	#2
That is one scary post (because of its deep truth). Are there any	coalition_unwilling	Apr 2012	#19
VOTE A STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC BALLOT and give yourself a chance.	xtraxritical	Apr 2012	#37
I'm not saying it cannot be overcome	CanonRay	Apr 2012	#43
Excellent post. However,	Tennessee Gal	Apr 2012	#3
I don't know. Even then the media reported the Watergate hearings.	geckosfeet	Apr 2012	#5
That is what I mean.	Tennessee Gal	Apr 2012	#6
Don't forget Vietnam	Alcibiades	Apr 2012	#18
Historical note: Karl Rove got his start as one of Donald Segretti's	coalition_unwilling	Apr 2012	#20
No, not really, I was watching while it happened..	Fumesucker	Apr 2012	#7
It was like witnessing a head on train wreck in slow motion	NNN0LHI	Apr 2012	#8
Been that way for over half my life now..	Fumesucker	Apr 2012	#9
Awesome, learned a new word today ("oubliette"). Had no idea	coalition_unwilling	Apr 2012	#22
They figured it out after the "Lone Gunman and No Shots from the Grassy Knoll"	ThomThom	Apr 2012	#10
Or a smoldering fire on the 80th floor, in steel frame building, can suddenly pancake it	RC	Apr 2012	#11
.	patrice	Apr 2012	#33
no	stupidicus	Apr 2012	#12
everyone should read the Walsh report	UpInArms	Apr 2012	#13
If you repeat a lie often enough......	Bosso 63	Apr 2012	#14
Yes that is their strategy but it also coordinated lying as well.	DCBob	Apr 2012	#15
It also requires false equivalence and misdirection.	sofa king	Apr 2012	#23
John Wayne asked Reagan to stop lying about the Panama Canal.	shcrane71	Apr 2012	#16
In the late thirties, when American business was IN LOVE WITH the Nazis "efficiency and order"	saras	Apr 2012	#17
Bingo. The GOP today resembles nothing more than the 1920s-1030s Fascists of Italy, Spain, & Germany	TahitiNut	Apr 2012	#39
I thought of RayGun before I even opened up the OP.	lpbk2713	Apr 2012	#24
This is all good stuff (the whole thread)	ashling	Apr 2012	#25
It's odd how from 1860-1920 or so they were the progressives	Recursion	Apr 2012	#26
The GOP has lied full time since the 1920's or so, at least.....	Bluenorthwest	Apr 2012	#27
I'm convinced the GOP strategists were watching Andy Kaufman .....	RagAss	Apr 2012	#28
You're a fan of Marc Maron? n/t	krispos42	Apr 2012	#35
No but I googled him and heard the Zmuda interview...Thanks !!	RagAss	May 2012	#44
I guess when they realized they served the same people as the media	FightForChange	Apr 2012	#29
Did not know faux was owned by arab	Thinkingabout	Apr 2012	#30
SAUDI Prince Alalweed bin Talal, 2nd largest block of News Corp stock, a.k.a. Fox News	patrice	Apr 2012	#32
The focus-grouping techniques that produced "Morning in America" are an application	patrice	Apr 2012	#31
How about when Ford pardoned Nixon?	muntrv	Apr 2012	#36
Been going on long time	Old Codger	Apr 2012	#38
Dad said...	Hubert Flottz	Apr 2012	#41

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