Karl Rove has said, if you say something often enough people will believe it. Joseph Goebbles said if you say a lie often enough it will be a truth. This idea was put forward by a Greek philosopher and I am sure used many times by others. It becomes necessary for all of us to fact check and check again before we accept any politicians word.

I'd love to see the full list on one (long) page. Also would be great to group some of the repeating lies.

On the bright side, it looks like the national media is finally beginning to take note of the unusually high willingness on the part of the Romney campaign to stick with false claims. They may be 32 weeks behind Steve on this, but better late than never.

Romney's audacity to suggest that we who voted for Obama should ask if we are better off today is astonishing. Well, thanks to over 300 Republican filibusters, most of us are not.

So, then, since you asked: how are you doing, Mitt? We hear you did very well these past four years - to the tune of about $100 million.

Do Mormons believe in the 10 Commandments, #9 in particular?

If Mitt had a dollar for every time time lied he'd be rich.....er...never mind.

thank you for this service to your country.

Foll me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... and I'm probably a Republican.

Everything you need to know about Mitt Romney

In the most important speech of his life, accepting his party’s nomination to be President of the United States at the Republican National Convention, before millions of onlookers and viewers, Mitt Romney stood up and told a bald-faced lie. It wasn’t a little lie to protect his or someone else’s feelings or reputation: it was a lie about an extraordinarily important policy matter: taxes. He said that President Obama had raised taxes, which is opposite of the truth. Romney is the man who will not release his own taxes, and who is selling himself as a businessman who has the experience and knowledge needed to fix the economy. So what would you get in the White House if you vote for such a man? A lying, dishonest businessman, tax-cheat. That’s what he demonstrated in his acceptance speech. He’d “fix” the economy alright: he’d fix it for himself and his wealthy friends.

Fool me once, shame on me--fool me twice... and I'm probably a Republican.

There was one point which seems to have had even the toughest reporters in tears. I apologize for the sacrilege, but I did not get Romney's story about the rose - didn't his father have a standing order for the rose-a-day? I mean, 64 years? And how did the florist get the sad news before the wife, Romney's mother?!

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MSNBC is brazenly pro-obama, you completely lost me on #3, Barry has all out attacked success in the now famous big Gaffe speech, "if you own a business you did not build that" speech which is a window into Barry's soul towards utter contempt and disdain for success, and in his incessant attack by taxation of the rich.....all shows a concerted effort on O's part to attack business and wealth, and reward those on benefits and hand outs...his "base"...and oh yes he obtained welfare waivers temporarily for his base not to have to look for a job prior to elections, you can water it down with experimental language, but this entire article is itself a long Barry advertisement, couched in "journalism"

Did anyone else notice that Marco Rubio said that he hoped we would be able to tell future generations that "We chose more government instead of more freedom." (16:49). Talk about a Freudian Slip! That may have been the only truth spoken all night at the convention.

Republicans can preach smaller government all day long but the truth is they want to limit our freedoms by removing our choices. I hope America takes the time to be informed this election season. We are living in scary times!

I guess the number one lie is 'we're here to tell you the hard truths'.

it speaks to the acceptance and belief of the lie as I wrote about in this article ... now it's the policy and practice of the RNC and Romney/Ryan campaigns.

Fear and Loathing in Tampa
The Truth in the Lie

©2012 by Geoff Wells

As I’ve watched the goings-on at the Republican convention in Tampa, I’ve wondered, whose party is this? I grew up in a conservative Republican household and even voted that way until the early eighties. But this is not the party I canvased for, worked the polls for and helped with the returns on election night. I can remember

calling results in to NBC the night of the first Reagan election. The party I now see, the party of Karl Rove, Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers, big money, big business and power is not that party. But again the question came to me, who are they the party of, who do they represent? I see faces in that crowd, and I know corporations, contrary to Mitt Romney speak are not people too, at least not in that way. It kept nagging me, then it hit me.

The answer lies just beneath the surface, in a veil of implied gestures, rumors, lies and ugly innuendo. It’s a party of win at all cost, distort the facts, push the lie and divide the people as long as we get our fifty-one percent, we win. The candidate has even said as much in so many words. Getting there, meaning, to Washington is the point. Because the not so thinly disguised plan is, once they do, to payback the powers that bought and paid for this garish display of rub-it-in your face wealth and power, and it wont make a difference then, mission accomplished, deal done, good-bye poor and middle-class, see you in four years.

I laugh, okay, not really, this is not funny, when I hear the anger, bigotry, sexism, racism and out and out lies, thinking no one will ever buy into it or believe it. Well, I have never been more wrong. Republican voters and would be undecided’s are lining up and drinking it down. In Tampa this week it’s the elixir fueling the push to capture voters and win the White House. And what I see are the exact same things used to scare people after 9/11, fear and loathing of our own citizens, surely “he must be a Muslim” I mean that was what I was told. It’s just now we have a legitimate american institution, a political party, pitching these whoppers and thumbing their noses at it, and all of us in the process. We have become in so many ways the thing we dread.

If they question the birthplace of our President, surely it must be true, if we question money being taken away from Medicare surely it must be true, if we create lies and confusion maybe people just wont vote at all, new voters, the poor, older, disenfranchised and so on because, as the theory goes, they would only be democrat voters. They clearly don’t trust the process that could elect them as well. No, assure it, win at all cost, using the lie.

You get the picture, and it’s not a beautiful Monet. This canvas is covered in ugliness and it’s tone is evil. Denial of votes will quiet the voices and strikes at one of our fundamental rights. Never mind the voting rights act. Sinister comes to mind here.

Tonight as countless speeches were given by the likes of Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Susana Martinez, John McCain, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Ryan himself, I saw the Republican Party showing their true colors, and let me assure you, it was not nearly as red, white and blue as they would have you believe. Lies became content in each and every speech only to be repeated and projected as fact, it was quite stunning to see the mastery of it all. Shock and awe to use a military phrase. If I let myself go for a few seconds and found I was starting to believe it, to get sucked in, but I withdrew in disgust. No, this is not the party I used to know and certainly not Abraham Lincoln’s or even Ronald Reagan’s Republican party. And how many times tonight did I hear his name used? More than a few, sorry Republicans you even insult his memory.

The masters of spin have become the masters of fund raising, who in turn have become the masters of the lie. Think it’s not effective? As many in the news media have said, and it could play out, they may just get away with it, and here’s the tactic they are using.

My recognition of it begins many years ago when I served on a jury for a robbery trial in my hometown of Indianapolis. I remember explaining as I was interviewed for the jury, just what it was that a Graphic Designer did for a public radio station, my job at the time. As this was my first trial I intended to learn all I could while doing my civic duty, being fair and impartial all the while. As I began to observe and hear the case played out there came a loud objection from the defense on behalf of the accused. As the counsel approached the bench for consultation over evidence and testimony, suddenly we the jury, were abruptly instructed to disregard the statement just given and not to pay it any mind at all, now or upon deliberation, withdraw it from your mind and don’t even think about it, you never heard it.

At that moment and from then on I saw both the flaw of it and the tactic of its use in the courtroom. No one really expects you not to remember what you just heard. In fact by calling attention to it we are made to remember it in all its detail with questions filling our heads on why we should try not to forget it, never mind judicial or jury protocol. It gets your attention and whatever you heard, now you believe it. The same is used here with great zeal, but with a twist. Once heard and repeated over and over you wont’ forget it and it must be true, after all why would they lie about that? You must be confused ... I heard it myself, again and again and again. Redundancy has made it truth - or has it?

I fast forward to tonights proceedings at the convention, and don’t think for a moment that the tactics used in that courtroom years ago were lost in what was taking place at the podium. They lie, repeat the lie and do it all over again. It’s the lather, rinse, repeat approach to engagement and persuasion. After awhile the lie becomes the thing and the thing becomes the truth, right? They all said it, it’s true, right? ... Wrong. I don’t know what world they live in, but in the one I live in, a lie is always a lie. Now before you go thinking I’m being all self-righteous and full of myself let me say, this isn’t about me or my personal political beliefs. It’s about the lying and deception of the American people for two individuals that just so happen to want to be the two most powerful leaders in the free world, our future president and vice-president. What was displayed was an utter disregard for not only the truth, but a belief in the lie. Talk about disrespect for the office they seek. Talk about craven. This is plainly morally bankrupt and has no place in our democracy. We are better than this, aren’t we?

And they know this and don’t care. They’ve given new meaning to taken out of context - “you didn’t build that” was one nights entire theme. Based on four words as a sound bite taken out of context from a speech President Obama made in Roanoke Virginia several weeks ago. Really? Do they care that presented in that way it’s a lie? The president spoke of all the things it takes to be successful in a business, saying it was a group effort, you didn’t do this by yourself. No, this is about winning even if you must lie to do it. The means does not justify the end here, not in this way, not now, not ever.

And I’d say the same thing if the Democrats ever created such a sham, but here’s the thing, they didn’t, and they won’t. Of course they want to win, but if it means lying to get there, no. They know Americans are worthy of so much more. You can’t accept and shun all at the same time. And Republicans have for years pointed the finger knowing this was the web they were weaving. Well now we find them caught in it. And it’s time to call them out. Deception has been their idol and the tool of gain. It appears it’s the only way for them to win and it is the “lie”.

And I have never seen anything quite like it. It has become both policy and science to the Republican party all at the same time. And it works. I can’t begin to tell you how many posts, emails, tweets and articles I’ve seen professing the quality, soundness and integrity of the Republican lie. And all one has to do is a bit of fact checking to disprove each and every one of them.You gotta love Google and access to the congressional record right? The media (not that anyone ever believes them) was all over Paul Ryan’s
lack of reporting on his own voting record in congress, but it didn’t seem to matter, after all the repetition of lie is truth and truth when you believe, translates to votes. This is the win at all cost mentality, this is the way they will win if they do, this is, the Republican party. This is why I am not a Republican and the very definition of wrong.

As I’ve said in my own posts and writings, I don’t care who you vote for, I care what you vote for and if it’s the perpetuity of the lie, your voting for the wrong candidate and we will truly not get the government we deserve. And we do deserve good and efficient government, not necessarily smaller government. Spreading the lie is how the Republicans could win this election which they know is close. The last one showed us that. Clearly they don’t want another 2008. Playing fair cost them one then, and we all remember both Bush elections and the fraud perpetrated on the people. If they didn’t know it, they wouldn’t be working so hard to deny people the right to vote in many key swing states, one of which I now live in, Virginia. And it stirs the framers in their graves. How dare you use the Constitution in the name of these lies.

So we come to one of the fundamental differences between the parties in this scene being played out all over the country and in the would-be mothership in Tampa. The real question is, as a people who say we are all about democracy, what is right, fair and just, what are we going to do about it? It’s time to call a lie a lie and not make it a virtue, honestly.

At the risk of sounding like one of those right-winged nut jobs using logic like ;("Obama's gonna' take our guns away, because he didn't do it in his first term"), I've come to the conclusion that Mitt Romney is actually what the republican party wanted from the beginning. A venture capitalist. In true (BAIN) venture (Vulture) capitalism form, the republicans have tried and succeeded in burdening the government with heavy, heavy debt in an effort to break it up, bring it down , and dissolve it into what they want it to be. They have done it to education. They have done it to the postal system. They have done it to prisons. In the word of Cheney, " Deficits don't matter !".....not when your trying to rid yourself of big government. Bring it down....Break it up....sell it off...and the rich get richer and the poor get poorer !

There is a serious problem though...seems as though no matter how much we point out the blatant lies (along with fact checking), so many people believe the lies even though the lies are fact checked. How can the polls show that Romney and President Obama are neck and neck? Why doesn't showing people how dishonest and deceiving the liars are, deter some people from believing the lies? I show my Romney-supporting friends the lies and the facts but they are not convinced, and still come up with excuses that (supposedly) support their views. Very, very discouraging to me...I love having Barak Obama for President!

are we better off today??? not even close, the debt is $16 Trillion, things may look better but thats like a family with a nice house and many nice things all bought by credit card debt that eventually bankrupts them, or Greece, Unemployment has not dropped either and 23 million are our of work, soon to be USA defaults if we don't change course, Barry can pretend things are better but that is to ignore the real facts

It's great to have the deception documented week after week. Thank you.

I admit, it gets discouraging to read the growing list of lies; however it's important to have a written record. At this point, I keep wondering what needs to happen for Romney's campaign to get off this broken record. Although I guess it serves its purpose, since we can't get real information out of him on his tax returns or policy details. Energy is spent on getting annoyed at these incessant lies when we be focused on something more productive.

The issue of lying is extremely important, but it feels like this constant retread. I wish that every time Romney/Ryan (actually there probably needs to be a chronicle for Ryan as well) or surrogates spout a well known lie, a journalist could simply add in a quick statement saying these claims have already been proven false and there's a link on their web site that viewers could go to. The journalist wouldn't need to spend time in a confrontation, since that has already happened on several other occasions.

If candidates knew that they would automatically be associated with deception for spouting blatant lies, perhaps they would stop. Imagine every time they state it on television, a banner would run across the screen saying this claim has already been fact checked and found false.

Given this outright pattern of deception, I find it weird that people go on about the need for business experience. What kind of workplace is it, if you're competing with your colleagues for a position and you're just making up stuff about your competition and disseminating that out to the groups around you for political gain. If you're in a company where it's an accepted part of the culture, you're not getting much done. Imagine a company where you had a minority that had views like Mitch McConnell and fought vigorously to prevent anything from looking like it had support of different factions in a company. If that happens in a company, that's not good business.

Then people talk about making tough decisions, but if those decisions are not fact based then how was it a tough decision? A politician who repeatedly tells the same lie repeatedly is not doing it to face what is tough. They're taking the easy way out. It's kind of like saying, well you wouldn't like the real me, so here's the fantasy... or the empty chair.

There's got to be a way to break past these lies.

why does no liberal media fact check this statement by Paul Ryan: 50% of college grads in their 20's are lying down on their beds in the house they grew up staring at a faded Obama poster, wondering when their life will get started....that is the truth that will be ignored

I’m perplexed why democrats on your show seem to think it’s so complicated and difficult to respond to the Romney campaign’s falsehoods about Medicare and Welfare.

It’s simple to say:

In fact, Obama increased the Welfare work requirement 20%. His policy requires states to put 20% MORE welfare recipients to work, if the states want the new flexibility their governors asked for. Obama didn’t remove the work requirement; he strengthened it – by 20%.

In fact, Obama didn’t cut a dime of Medicare benefits – he cut $716 billion of wasteful spending on overpayments to insurance companies and hospitals. With those savings he closed the Medicare donut hole, preserved Medicare for another decade, and provided other needed care. Romney wants to restore that wasteful spending and go back to overpaying insurance companies, and re-open the donut hole so seniors can’t afford their medications, and let Medicare run out of money in four years. But Ryan’s budget actually keeps the $716 billion in savings Obama found.

If you combine “Mitt” with “Willard” you get “Millard.” Millard Romney would be a worse president than our last Millard (Fillmore) who, according to Wikipedia, is “consistently ranked in the bottom ten of historical rankings of presidents of the United States.”

Just a couple things. When Bush was president, he began giving tax breaks and everyone was excited. Then 9/11 happened. Bush stupidly continued giving tax breaks while trying to fight and fund two wars in two countries. Troops were recycled to the point of exhaustion. The whole thing with tax breaks and the costs of wars is that it set us up for the economic situation that we have today.

Second, I was laid off while Bush was still president because of his policies. During that time, I worked at a small convenience store for minimum wage. But under OBama i was offered a new job with a decent salary. So, all I can say is that as far as my family is concerned, obama's economic policy is working for me.

So Ya think a debate or two will bring reality to the surface a bit? I do not get Mitt and the Yuppie's constant lies! Is half the Nation that stupid or so desperate to have there party win no matter what????

What about if these power hungry Rep. get in office?? Will we be in a couple of wars very quickly due to dishonesty. I for one am a little bit scared. I can not see sending our children off to fight wars over Mitt and the Yuppie lies. This is not natural selection it is more like the Darwin awards.

Some one please help shed some light on this terror. Some people need to sleep again. What are we to do??

Scared in The United States and not alone.