Archive for the ‘Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell’ Category
Gas, Past Tense, Made Facially
What the price of gas has done over the last 12 months (top green line there): What FOX News makes out of the green line: “Man, Mr. Murdoch’s third period math class is effin’ hard. But just leave out the uninteresting data points AND BLAME PRESIDENT MELANIN MCDARKGUY LOL HOMEWORK’S DONE. I bet I get [...]
February 21, 2012
· 
Zandar · 
118 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Energy Policy, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Hoot-Smalley, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now
Coming Clean Under A Hard Rain
Cue the “abyss staring back” and “ends justify the means” soul-searching on the case of HuffPo’s Peter Gleick admitting to less than forthright methods to obtaining the right’s game plan on pushing climate change denial in schools. At the beginning of 2012, I received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be [...]
February 21, 2012
· Zandar · 84 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Decline and Fall, IOKIYAR, Science and Technology, Show Us Your Countertops, The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right, We Are All Mayans Now
European Austerity Is Working? O R’yleh?
The Elder Keynesian Krugthulu arises from the depths of Lost Decade, shrill but dreaming, not to bring madness, but to end it! Ia! Ia ftaghn stimulus! Last week the European Commission confirmed what everyone suspected: the economies it surveys are shrinking, not growing. It’s not an official recession yet, but the only real question is [...]
February 20, 2012
· Zandar · 66 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Free Markets Solve Everything, Good News For Conservatives, hoocoodanode
Breaking: Republicans oppose regulation of large employers and health insurance companies
Boring headline, but factual. Here’s what he said: Santorum said he was talking specifically about some, but not all, prenatal testing, and not about prenatal care in general. “There are all sorts of prenatal testing which should be provided free,” Santorum said. “I have no problem with that if the insurance companies want to. I’m [...]
February 20, 2012
· Kay · 39 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
We may have to outsource this question to Detroit
Something really wonderful happened in Detroit last week. Mitt Romney, who has been lying about the auto bailout since 2010, was finally, finally called on it. The word “lie” was used. The words “reckless, detached from reality and dishonest” were used. It was a beautiful thing. I don’t know if this has ever happened to [...]
February 19, 2012
· Kay · 90 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
I Can’t Quite Put My Finger On It, But…
MoJo’s Nick Baumann again does us an invaluable service by pointing out the obvious fact that President Obama’s “unprecedented assault on America’s religious freedoms” by requiring church-related hospitals and universities to cover contraception at the federal level has actually been on the books for, oh, about 12 years now. In December 2000, the Equal Employment [...]
February 10, 2012
· Zandar · 69 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Flash Mob of Hate, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Republican Venality, We Are All Mayans Now
Chart Of Darkness: Belaboring The Point
Following up on Saturday’s post on the latest wingnut meme that Kenyan Soshulist Maths are hiding the truth that the reeeeeeeal unemployment rate among scared, crazy self-piddling conservatives is 157 gazillion percent, we see FOX and Friends is happily joining in the silliness. “Are they playing around with the numbers?” fill-in host Eric Bolling asked. [...]
February 7, 2012
· Zandar · 51 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now, Wingnut Event Horizon
Not exactly a sneak attack
Remember: it wasn’t an attack on unions, it was budget-balancing: An Ohio group has been cleared to continue its effort to push a ballot initiative that would keep workers covered by labor contracts from having to join a union or pay dues. Attorney General Mike DeWine on Wednesday said Ohioans for Workplace Freedom has provided [...]
February 6, 2012
· Kay · 32 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
Why you should defend the Administration on contraception (it doesn’t have anything to do with churches receiving federal money)
Wanted to do a quick primer on the large business provisions in the PPACA, before we get surrounded by conservatives setting up round tables and spewing oceans of abstract theory. It’s probably too late, because if there’s anything I’ve learned in following the “health care debate” is it that no one, no one, ever wants [...]
February 5, 2012
· Kay · 48 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
Chart Of Darkness
The problem with this Zero Hedge “implied unemployment rate” chart that the wingers are screaming about as proof of a massive “Democrat Party scam” is the fact that Tyler Durden ran the numbers back for 30 years and it exists all the way back to the Reagan era, and it shows that the “real” unemployment [...]
February 4, 2012
· Zandar · 92 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, Wingnut Event Horizon
Where Nothing is Ever Put Straight
You’d think our dozen or so Komen posts from yesterday would have captured all of the Komen news, but there’s more. This morning’s Times reports that Nancy Brinker was lying when she said that it was “stewardship”, not politics, that drove the decision to dump Planned Parenthood: Her comments directly contradicted those of John D. [...]
February 3, 2012
· mistermix · 56 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
Crossing The Rubin Con On Romney
Oh, Jennifer Rubin. You really are a terrible hack, and why the Kaplan machine keeps inflicting you upon the populace, I’ll never know. Romney as the nominee will be flyspecked and criticized over every word. He needs to avoid actual gaffes. But he can’t keep the media from editing out all the inconvenient parts of [...]
February 2, 2012
· Zandar · 34 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Clown Shoes, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Let Them Eat Safety Net, He Said
Mitt Romney is just really, really awful at being a politician. Every time he opens his mouth, that silver foot keeps getting inserted sideways. Greg Sargent tags this Romney comment from this morning: “I’m not concerned with the very poor. We have a safety net there,” Romney told CNN. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix [...]
February 1, 2012
· Zandar · 167 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, C.R.E.A.M., Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Scott Walker’s sea of corruption may have run Captain Preibus aground
Courtesy of the We Party Patriots, we learn that Reince Priebus (and there’s a rejected Bond villain name if I’ve ever heard of one) seems to be implicated in the illegal activities that have already resulted in the arrests and indictments of several of Governor Walker’s current and former aides. Walkergate” is unfolding into a [...]
January 31, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 26 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Election 2010, Election 2012, Grifters Gonna Grift, Kochsuckers, Republican Venality, Teabagger Stupidity
The truth is out there
I know you-all were anxiously awaiting further updates on this Fox News scoop, so here goes: Over the last two weeks, Fox has repeatedly promoted the claim that voter fraud is indicated by records showing that more than 900 South Carolina residents were recorded as casting a vote after their reported death date. Lou Dobbs, [...]
January 27, 2012
· Kay · 39 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell
