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The Latest Lie(s): Everything In The New Romney Ad

A new Romney ad claims ... OK, wow, just watch the ad: more »

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The Latest Lie: "Redistribution Is A Foreign Concept"

Now Mitt Romney is using another selectively edited video to make it sound like President Obama is a communist who wants to seize all the wealth of the rich and hand it out to ... negroes and communist party members? more »

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The Latest Lie: "Obama Sympathizes With Muslim Rioters"

In April, 2011 American pastor Terry Jones burned a Koran which set off days of riots in Afghanistan that killed 12 people, including four UN guards. Now Jones has released an online film mocking Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, depicting him having sex. This set off riots in Muslim countries including Libya and Egypt, where they later stormed US embassies. The U.S. ambassador to Libya, J. more »

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The Latest Lie: Obama Will "Take God Off Our Coins"

Campaigning alongside Pat Robertson today, Mitt Romney implied that President Obama plans to "take God off our coins."

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The Latest Lie: "Four Straight Trillion-Dollar Deficits"

Now Mitt Romney is saying that President Obama gave us ":four straight trillion-dollar deficits." Since we are in Obama's third budget year, a different President must have brought us trillion-dollar deficits. Was it Bill Clinton?

The Romney Claim

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Romney/Ryan Going Full 'Southern Strategy' With Welfare

After all the fact-checkers and many in the media denounce the Romney campaign's blatant fabrication that Obama is "gutting" the welfare work requirement, Romney/Ryan doubled down, going full-on Angry White Male. The campaign says they are doing this because "it's working" and declares "we are not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers." Clearly not. more »

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Why Does GOP Make Ridiculous Claims?

Republicans said Obama "tripled the deficit" but they were talking about Bush's last budget year. They said Obama massively increased spending, but Bush did that and Obama did not. They said Obama raised taxes, but he cut taxes. And now they say that we have fewer jobs because of Obama, when jobs are up by millions from the trough resulting from the Bush crash. more »

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The Green Cheese Campaign, Or Say What You Need To Say To Get In The Door

The Republican Party seems to have become a party of "say what you need to say to get in the door." And what happens when they do get in that door?

The Green Cheese Campaign

"Obama is mining green cheese on the moon and putting it in school lunch milk." more »

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The Latest Lie: Campaign Of Hate

Mitt "I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I" Romney has accused President President Obama of running a "campaign of division and anger and hate." WTF? more »

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The Latest Lie: Obama Cut Medicare

There is a pattern to Romney's campaign of lies: accuse President Obama of the very things candidate Romney is doing. This "I know you are but what am I" tactic, in PR-speak, "provides cover." And this one is a big one, with Romney accusing Obama of cutting Medicare. Wow.

The Ryan Plan To Eliminate Medicare

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