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To bolster his welfare lie, Mitt Romney's new attack ad cites a new source: the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It's obviously intended to give the smear the air credibility -- if Romney had just made this up out of whole cloth, the newspaper, described in the spot as "one of the most respected newspapers in America," wouldn't have endorsed his loathsome position.
But Romney did simply make this up out of whole cloth, and the fact that the Times-Dispatch misled its readers with a ridiculous editorial doesn't justify the lie.
Indeed, in an amusing twist, none other than the Richmond Times-Dispatch ran a story on Romney's smear today, noting that the Republican campaign's attack ad "pushes [a] debunked claim."
Mitt Romney's campaign is up with a new ad in Virginia and other swing states using a Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial in support of the Republican's continued attack on President Barack Obama's welfare policies.
The 30-second ad doubles down on the Romney campaign's claim that Obama ended welfare's work requirement "gutting welfare reform," a charge that has been debunked by multiple independent fact-checkers. [...]
On the day it was released, PolitiFact.com debunked the first of the Romney campaign ads claiming that "under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check," rating it "Pants on Fire."
FactCheck.org followed suit, finding that Obama's changes to the welfare reform law neither gutted it, nor "dropped" the work provisions. Rather, the piece says, states were given authority to change the work requirements with a goal of increasing job placement. Making it a hat trick, the Washington Post Fact-Checker also gave the claim "Four Pinnochios."
So, Romney is saying the Richmond Times-Dispatch is "one of the most respected newspapers in America," so its reporting should be taken seriously. Great. The Richmond Times-Dispatch is also saying Romney is lying. Does the Republican still think it's still "one of the most respected newspapers in America"?
The problem, obviously, is that the newspaper's strange, Republican-dominated editorial board was so eager to attack the president, it lost sight of reality. As Dan Radmacher explained, the members of Times-Dispatch's editorial board apparently haven't "read their own paper."
The good news for the paper's readers is that the firewall between its good reporters and silly editorial board appears to high and sound.
Postscript: Incidentally, the Romney ad also quotes a Daily Caller columnist, who, as it turns out, believes the argument underpinning the attack on Obama has been "overstated and oversimplified." It's as if Romney can't get anything right.
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The biggest scandal we're living through is the media. If the country had a responsible media, we wouldn't be living through this nightmare.
I keep asking , Where is the outrage?
Oh I forgot ... we need a horse race to sell pharmaceuticals and Cheerios.
If one of the candidates is getting whupped , we wont get any eyeballs
Fair and balanced . So what if democracy suffers
I seriously just don't know where the outrage is, but I suspect the lack of it is simply because most people aren't suffering enough and they have a lot of diversions that keep them mollified. It's difficult to explain to people what is happening right in front of their very eyes. They think because we have a free press that "it can't happen here." It IS happening here.
A Romney aide said, "Oh, you meant the Virginia Richmond? I'm sorry, we were talking about this Richmond!
Richmond is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south-east fromMelbourne's Central Business District
-there's also a Richmond in the UK (A country that has a 'special relationship with us.)
Don't forget Richmond, BC.
Frankly, I am more than a bit cynical when it comes to the corporate owned lame-stream media! While there are a few "journalists" that I believe still have credibility - for the most part "the msm" have become jingoist propagandists!
This isn't a problem with the MSM -- they got the story right, and pointed out Romney's lies -- the problem is with politicians who credit a paper falsely with supporting their false claims.
So now we know, but who is going to tell The R&R Bookends' supporters? (Like they would believe it?) ;-/
If you lie often enough, people will believe you.
If you lie too often, people will laugh at you until you die.
I see a lot of laughing-at in Romney's future....
There's a reason Richmonders disparage the Times-Dispatch as the "Times-Disgrace."
Romney needed a credible source to parrot his baseless welfare talking points to give them credibility in the future. (Call it the journalistic equivalent of money laundering -- bull@!$%# was made clean.) He got that with the Times-Disgrace. It doesn't matter now that the Times-Disgrace has backtracked and disavowed their previous editorial. Romney got what he needed, and the Times-Disgrace helped legitimize Romney's mendacity.
Dang it! It was an "honest mistake. Just like the Bush era and WMDs.
Ain't it funny how the representatives of tea party madness who kow tow to the Evangelists-lie their heads off while counting on bigotry and/or ignorance to protect them? Good Christians lie? Gosh seems to me St. Lucifer was sent to hell for lying. Seems to me that the "Bible condemns lying more than any other sin. Seems to me these "good Christians" want to go to hell claiming they did it for god.
See you in November--I hope they let you vote.
If the GOP weren't such a thoroughly corrupt party, the two Republican governors for whom the waivers were granted would publicly call on Romney to cut the crap - instead, when asked direct questions about this, they hemmed and hawed so that Romney-the-magnificent-liar could continue lying his ass off.
I almost can't believe Team RomneyRyan are doubling down on this debunked lie.
The last 24 hours have had like 3 weeks of news crammed into 1 day. Maddow needs a 2 hour show tonight. From Akin, to Missouri election law, to this horrible ad, to Romney and Ryan in NH, to GOP Rep Yoder getting naked in Israel, to Neill Ferguson and Newsweek wetting the bed, to Augusta accepting women, to Ryan loving stimulus, to Medicare, to Mitt's taxes, to Obama talking to press corps again!
My head is spinning.
It's Akin to a bad dream is'nt it.
what's needed is everyone to consistently and constantly demand the truth from Romney and Ryan. They need to be asked "Why do you intentionally lie?" at every campaign stop.
Who? Anyone the right suspects of having a rational question on their lips isn't allowed near the Scheme Team.
Not just "a Daily Caller columnist," but Mickey Kaus himself. 'Nuff said.
what's needed is someone to do a poster a la the Obama "Hope" poster, instead it's of Romney, and says "LIAR" underneath.
and then they need to be plastered in every city in America
He was for the paper, before he was against it.
Look this is what Republicans DO...ALL the time. They LIE. PERIOD. From the Missile Gap in Ike's time to "I'm Not a Crook" Nixon, to Vice-President and Former head of CIA George H.W. Bush claiming no KNOWLEDGE of the Iran-Contra scandal and letting faithful Marine ol'Ollie take the fall by himself, to the story of 19 drunken bumbling, can't fly straight Arabs, some even stopped BEFORE boarding...causing 3 buildings to fall on 911 in NY and another to do what 911 Military Pilots for Truth says would have broken the plane apart and also the G-Force would rendered the pilot unconscious.
Yes the MEDIA is to blame on this and so many other things because the MEDIA is beholding to the revenue from BIG CORPORATIONS....the 1%. They actually could care crap about the viewer his/her selves. They only care about how many eyeballs they actually get you to watch to set the rate they can charge the 1% for all those ads..
There is no REAL news investigations anymore that are actually HONEST. I mean it. Nobody in the media has actually had the guts to come out and say some of the Republican or Democrat bullcrap is exactly that. LIES and crappy lies at that. The Republicans are as drunken and bumbling right now as the supposedly 19 Arab Hijackers who out-witted the ENTIRE US defense system !!! C'mon...looking back one guy and 19 lap-dancing drunken arabic idiots who can't fly straight brought down the ENTIRE defense system?
Bush and Condi Rice claimed "no one in our government could have ever concieved of using airplanes as bombs" is an outright LIE to the American people that the MEDIA let go. Cheney and Stanley Meyer were actually CONDUCTING that exact same scenario of that on 911 in the bunkers !!
That is why it took so long for ANY fighter jets to arrive in the air at the hijacked planes...they were sent off in every direction possible AWAY from where the attacks were going to happenby Cheney and Meyers. The 911 report at least admits this. Republicans LIE as natural as breathing.
They may yet outwit the public with the voter suppression that the Obama Administration could have the Justice Department step in and say ALL these State Laws VOLATE the Voting Rights Act of the 1960's. NOPE. Obama is busy raining drones down on civilians around the planet as the Afghanistan people, who knew the Flat Fact Brutal Truth of 911 all along are fed up with the Flase Flag invasion and infiltrating and killing US and what NATO forces are left anyway they can.
Obama was WRONG not to look into what Bush and Cheney did as Unconstitutional. Lying about Iraq WAS and REMAINS ... Treason and Impeachable. Not a single CIA higher-up was ever punished for the lies put forth.
Sibel Edmonds REMAINS under Bush then Obama a "State Secret" which means the US Congress cannot talk about her story, the courts will not hear her case, she is person-non-grata in the United States because she found out that the FBI KNEW well in advance that 911 was going to happen and that foreign countries that were supposedly allies were colluding with US government officials BEFORE 911 on the attacks.
Unless the PEOPLE wake up and FORCE the media to re-visit the Rpublican LIES outrght and a re-investigation into at least Building 7 which has NEVER - EVER been fully explained ... we may be doomed to a repeat of 2000. Which we ALL now KNOW as a Flat Fact of Brutal Truth...Bush LOST that election. And the Supreme Court did an unconstitutional thing stepping in and even said so in their opinion.
Until the meanstream media...somebody...anybody...starts raising these "Inconveint Truths" and Flat Facts... we WILL have our election of 2012 stolen from us again.
Obama has his faults...but it obvious to anyone living outside Foxland...he's the lesser of the two devils...but DEVILS they BOTH still be.
Bob...:(
Nixon: I'm not a crook
Mitt: I'm not a crock
Bob, you are seriously putting Obama in the same camp as Romney?
no need to dive into trutherism conspiracy land, that only makes you look foolish. The lies that are transparent and out there for everyone to see were ones about WMD's and connections between Iraq and AlQaeda.
The only 'conspiracy" s the government's that NEVER says a single sentence about Building 7. And the MEDIA are NOT ALLOWED to talk about it or Sibel Edmonds. So I not going to delve to your level and say follow your fellow lemmings...but look before jumping to conclusions for your own well being.
Bob...Have a good day.
Take your braindead b.s. somewhere else, you blithering ignorant moron, and while you're taking it there, fall in a hole you can't get out of. Please.
Not in same 'camp'...but he's STILL raining drones on civilians in a variety of countries...he sent the CIA into Turkey BEFORE this "uprising" in Syria began for that EXACT purpose...regime change in Syria...he ended the Iraq war..ONLY because Al.Maliqui(sp?) would NOT continue with agreement that would bar US troops from Iraqi law...otherwise...there would STILL be US troops in Iraq. He promised a "single payer option" yet caved to the 1% drug companies, he's invading State Okayed Medical Cannabis Clinics, the US has 17,000 US patents for medical cannabis uses yet won't declassify it as Schedule 1 drug, and still arrests a disparity of African American and Hispanics for cannabis...something the Declaration of Independence is WRITTEN on for COUNTRY's SAKE! Our forefathers GREW it as a crop and and in WWII there was "Hemp For Victory" put out by Pentagon back then. Our FIRST LAWS in American colonies was you HAD to grow cannabis for the hemp for manufacturing...makes better fuels, rope, cloth, paper, wood, insulation...even cars as Henry Ford showed with an all HEMP car he made.
And Sibel Edmonds story remains HIDDEN by his decree, and so many other "secrets". he's classifiying documents faster and more than Bush-Cheney EVER did..what is he hiding?
Devil he is....but as I said..he's the less evil one for the most of us 99%'ers.
Bob
rh,
You are full of @!$%#.
It's as if Romney can't get anything right.
As if?
Building a house of cards is clever enough, but if dealing from the bottom or the top, you still need a full deck. A card is missing in there somewhere.
Wasn't Romney once declared dead, it could have affected his mind. Would a brain scan be as revealing as his taxes? Did Romney get rich on his own, or did he use someone elses property.