Romney lied & lied & lied &

[kpete]

Romney lied:

When he claimed that "pre-existing conditions are covered under my plan." They're not.
When he said that President Obama had "cut Medicare by $716 billion to pay for Obamacare." Obama didn't.
When he denied proposing a $5 trillion tax cut. He did.
When he said President Obama had "added almost as much to the federal debt as all the prior presidents combined." Not even close.
When he resurrected "death panels." That was called "one of the biggest whoppers of the night."
When he stated that half the green energy companies given stimulus funds had failed. Only if three out of nearly three dozen is half.

Stayed tuned. These just scratch the surface.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/04/1139793/-Mitt-Romney-Lying-to-victory

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In general, “lies” isn’t exactly the right word for what Romney threw out last night. I like the term “confabulation” because they were sound-good statements that were mainly unrelated to the positions that he’s been running on for the last 18 months. When these get unpacked, the DC press will finally realize that Romney spit out a bunch of shiny, nice sounding nothings. Unlike the primary debates, which are basically beauty contests, the Presidential debates get analyzed to death. There’s more than a day of “who gaffed the most”, “who looked the best”. Romney clearly is winning that part of the cycle. The next part, the part that never happened last Winter and this Spring, is “what did these guys actually say”. And on that score, Romney lost. You can’t make up a whole Presidential campaign in two weeks of debate prep, and that’s what he did.


http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/10/04/was-i-watching-the-same-debate/

[porphyrian]

1. . n/t

[nenagh]

2. Thanks kpete,

Romney's lies were driving me crazy.
Nice to see them itemized.

[rock]

3. And then he lied some more

But rather than lying all the time which would be a dead giveaway, he (randomly) lies close to 50% of the time. Now from a informational theory point of view this means he coveys 0% information.

[jsr]

4. Romney/Ryan = The twin turbo engine of lies