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Scarborough: “Everybody lied” to GOP donors (except the Democrats)

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“I’ll tell you, if I were a donor, my biggest problem would be that I was lied to. I was lied to by the, as David Frum said, the conservative entertainment establishment. I mean, the conservative media establishment. They lied to the donors, they lied to the base. They lied to everybody about how Romney was ahead and things were looking good in the Senate. The pollsters lied. Everybody lied. And so guys keep writing checks and find out the reason they went to Minnesota and Pennsylvania is because all of these people that were saying Romney was going to win Ohio, they knew he was not going to win Ohio. They knew all along.”

— Joe Scarborough: ‘Everybody Lied’ To GOP Donors | Mediaite

The GOP donors (hell, the GOP base) ought to begin wondering what else they’re lied to about by the conservative entertainment industry (Fox, Rush, etc.). I wonder if the donors / base are noting that the non-conservative media industry, and the Democratic Party itself, weren’t lying to anyone about their polls and projections.

The fact of the matter is that conservatives don’t want to hear anything outside of their safe bubble of tribal knowledge. They’re right and everyone else is wrong, and if anyone disagrees: TALK LOUDER. That’s what we’ve had to deal with for at least a couple decades. They lied to themselves.

It’s always Ohio

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“In 2004, Ohio was ground zero for the Swift Boat smear campaign. In 2008 Ohio was ground zero for all things related to Joe the Plumber. In 2012 it’s already been ground zero for Mitt Romney’s fraudulent welfare ad and is now ground zero for a flatly dishonest ad about Jeep assembly being moved to China. At some point, you’d think that Ohio voters would get tired of Republicans treating them like chumps. Maybe this is the year.” — One can always dream… (via motherjones)

Donald Trump is a horse’s ass and other thoughts on Romney’s lies about Jeep

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dailydot: That awkward moment when the Senior Vice President of Design at Chrysler (which owns Jeep) calls you out on Twitter.

Detroit Free Press: “The larger question is: Why is this coming up at all at this late stage of the campaign? The answer is simple, political experts say. Both sides have known from Day One that this campaign would hinge, in large part, on the saving of Detroit’s signature business, and it’s still in Romney’s eleventh-hour interests to change the narrative that Obama gets the credit, especially in blue-collar parts of the battleground state of Ohio. No Republican president has ever won the White House without winning Ohio, and Romney — in most polls — trails there. [...] Melissa Miller, a political science professor at Bowling Green State University south of Toledo, said she doesn’t think the Romney campaign would be making the claim if they didn’t think it was going to help them, though she thinks its effectiveness is very much in doubt. “He’s probably put some fear in the minds of some people who work for Jeep, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re being told right there on the factory floor — by management — that this is a false claim,” she said.”

Romney Style: How to Destroy Your Campaign’s Credibility in Five Easy Steps:

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The Romney Campaign’s game plan: Fear. And hoping Ohio voters are stupid. It is literally all they have.

Hunter / Daily Kos:

“A reminder: Mitt Romney has had to absolutely kowtow to this man. [...] Does Mitt Romney—or any Republican, for that matter—care in the slightest that Trump is a rotten boil on the political landscape? Do they give a damn that the Republican brand has so thoroughly been reduced to pandering to the least common denominator of their base, all the rest of reality be damned? Of course not. No matter how big a fool this dimwitted, Palinesque publicity hound makes himself, Mitt Romney will still shake his hand, and Paul Ryan will still hold private fundraisers with the man. [...] Welcome to the modern Republican Party. These are the people who are chosen not to be shunned, but to speak for the party, and guide the party, and raise money for the party, and appear on television for the party, and hold the reins of party leadership. Congratulations, Republican Party. Whatever depths of vapidity and grifting you might have been aiming for, I’d say you’ve managed to get there and then some.”

Tweet of the Day:

FIVE DAYS LEFT: VOTE!!

Palin slams Romney, everyone laughs

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“I think what Gov. Perry is getting at is that Gov. Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain and people are wanting to know, is there proof of that claim? And was it U.S. jobs created for United States citizens?” — Palin slams Romney’s jobs record: ‘Is there proof?’

The “I said, ‘thanks but no thanks’ to that Bridge to Nowhere” half-term governor now demands politicians tell the truth on the campaign trail.

I love this!

Mitt Romney in 26 seconds: the new “Romney standard” of campaign advertising

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“The Romney campaign’s very first television ad, released this evening, dishonestly presents a 2008 McCain campaign quote as the words of President Obama. The ad features a voice-over of Obama saying “if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.” Then-candidate Obama indeed said those words, perhaps dozens of times during the closing month of the 2008 campaign. The only problem? Obama was actually quoting the words of a strategist from Sen. John McCain’s campaign.” — BREAKING: First Romney TV Ad Falsely Presents McCain Campaign Quote As Obama’s

NO BIGGIE! Here’s a hilarious ad about Mitt Romney, in his own words and according to his own standards for truth and fairness, created by Think Progress:

Fox “News” provides the confused and low-information viewer with more confusion and disinformation

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IT’S WHAT THEY DO. This is just over the past day:

“Still desperately trying to paint President Obama as having done nothing but raise taxes during his presidency, Fox News falsely claimed today that Obama wants to “raise everybody’s taxes” as well as “taxes on small businesses.” Both claims are not only false, but are actually the reverse of reality: the president’s recently released American Jobs Act calls for tax cuts for the vast majority of working, middle-class Americans, as well as tax cuts for businesses, and more tax cuts for businesses that hire the long-term unemployed.” — Still Not True: Fox’s Gasparino Ignores Reality To Claim Obama Wants To “Raise Everybody’s Taxes” (via: ryking)

And this: Fox News’ blazing, fear-mongering headline yesterday (below). The real story is much less exciting: a 26-year-old American from Massachusetts planned to blow up the Pentagon with remote-controlled airplanes.

Actual headline vs. Fox “News” headline:

And Fox News’ biggest star, Bill O’Reilly:

More from “The Daily Show” (via: inothernews)

STEWART: Here’s the reality: the top one percent (of earners) take in nearly 25 percent of income today.

O’REILLY: And pay how much of the tax? THIRTY PERCENT OF IT.

STEWART (continuing): But 25 years ago, it was TWELVE percent. Top one percent control 40 percent of the wealth: just five years ago, it was 33 percent. Top one percent have had incomes rise 18 percent over the last decade!

O’REILLY (childish): We should just shoot them.

STEWART: I’m not saying we should shoot them. But we shouldn’t act like returning to the tax rate of the 90′s is class warfare on par with Lenin and Marx.

If you have a family member or loved one who watches Fox News, do an intervention. Help them, help yourself. Help the world.

“Fox News stands as the culmination of everything Ailes tried to do for Nixon back in 1968. He has created a vast stage set, designed to resemble an actual news network, that is literally hard-wired into the homes of millions of America’s most conservative voters.” — How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory | Rolling Stone Politics

Polifact score summary of the GOP presidential candidates

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Via Balloon Juice:

538 has an interesting piece on Polifact’s ratings of the truth of statements by Republican candidates for President. The net of it is that almost every time Michele Bachmann opens her mouth, she’s lying. I’ll go out on a limb and argue that Santorum would be just as bad if he ever got a chance to speak, but his sample size is pretty small, as is Huntsman’s.

According to Polifact, at least 71% of what Obama says is at least half right, versus 51% for Perry and 64% for Romney.

But, really, it’s not like these people pictured below care about lying — they boo military vets and applaud death and executions. They care about winning. So should we.

inothernews: Hardcore members of the Tea Party attend last night’s Republican debate in Orlando, Florida while on break from the American Adventure Pavillion at DisneyWorld; left, Rush Limbaugh keeps his distance.   (Photo: Chip Litherland / The New York Times)

Roundup: RWNJ Faux Outrageous Outrage of the Day — Jim Hoffa Jr. and Union Thuggery!

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TBogg: Pearls Were Clutched. Sphincters Were Clenched – Jimmy Hoffa Jr. makes reference to “son’s-of-bitches” and immediately teabaggers and Republicans and conservatives and rightwing bloggers think he’s speaking specifically about them (guilt? … deeply guarded family secret?  …  mom really was a bitch?) and so they get the vapors and now they are super totally  not going to vote for the black guy.

Oh noes! Not Breitbartoacalypse II?

TPM: No regrets — On calling Republican members of Congress “sons of bitches” in a speech on Monday, Teamsters President James Hoffa tells TPM he would say it all over again.

All fun aside, this is the REAL issue — doctored video and lies:

MMFA – Matt Gertz: Fox Doctors Hoffa Speech To Fabricate Call For Violence — Right-wing bloggers misled by dishonest Fox News video editing are attacking Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. for supposedly urging violence against Tea Party activists during a Labor Day speech. Conservatives are also attacking President Obama, who appeared at the event, for “sanctioning violence against fellow Americans” by failing to denounce Hoffa. But fuller context included in other Fox segments makes clear that Hoffa wasn’t calling for violence but was actually urging the crowd to vote out Republican members of Congress.

Charles Johnson: Fox News Deceptively Edits Video to Smear Teamsters Pres. Hoffa — Absolutely blatant lying from Fox — Fox News aired a flat-out dishonest, edited version of Hoffa’s speech, deliberately doctored to remove a crucial point and make it look as though Hoffa was calling for violence and civil war.

This is the edited clip aired repeatedly by Fox “News” today:

ABC News has an unedited clip: 

An actual, unedited transcript of Hoffa’s remarks:

We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war.

President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. AndPresident Obama, we want one thing: jobs, jobs, jobs… That’s what we’re going to tell him. He’s gonna be … and when he sees what we’re doing here, he will be inspired. But he needs help. And you know what? Everybody here’s got to vote. If we go back, and we keep the eye on the prize, let’s take these son of a bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.

Hoffa was talking about VOTING OUT the sons of bitches? Oh, my. Obama has a responsibility to tell Hoffa he owes a quarter to the cuss jar – but THAT’S ABOUT IT.

Fox News: They make shit up. You ask no questions.

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Will somebody please go to Wisconsin and punch a Fox reporter? They really want you to. ~ Wonkette

Fox News’ Mike Tobin claimed he was “punched in the arm” by a pro-union protester in Wisconsin. Another lie:

Fox News has been making a lot of hay about one of their reporters allegedly being “punched” by a protester in Madison, Wisconsin.

Turns out, that didn’t happen.

Mike Tobin, reporting from amid the massive demonstration on Friday, claimed that one of the protesters “punched” him in the arm. In another broadcast, he claimed a man threatened to break his neck.

In both cases, supporting evidence for these claims was not broadcast — yet still, Tobin’s reports have been widely cited across conservative blogs that seem eager to depict union workers as hateful and violent.

What’s worse, Tobin’s allegation that he was assaulted might have slipped past without rebuttal were it not for a camera-equipped bystander, who captured the scene.

Turns out, someone merely touched his shoulder, as evidenced in the video below. The incident he claimed was a “punch” could instead be described as a pat, at most.

Video here…