Romney's Lying Machine

[TroyD]

08/24/2012

Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under Clinton

I've been struck by the baldness of Romney's repetitive lies about Obama -- that Obama ended the work requirement under welfare, for example, or that Obama's Affordable Care Act cuts $716 billion from Medicare benefits.

The mainstream media along with a half-dozen independent fact-checking organizations and sites have called Romney on these whoppers, but to no avail. He keeps making these assertions.

Every campaign is guilty of exaggerations, embellishments, distortions, and half-truths. But this is another thing altogether. I've been directly involved in seven presidential campaigns, and I don't recall a presidential candidate lying with such audacity, over and over again. Why does he do it, and how can he get away with it?

more here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/romneys-lying-machine_b_1827787.html

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1. He believes he's entitled to his own facts. When you have $250 million you're 'entitled',

didn't you know?