Special Report | The 2012 Campaign Lying Machine: Week of October 21

Sat, 10/20/2012 - 11:36 — Dave Culver

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Every campaign is guilty of exaggerations, embellishments, distortions, and half-truths. But lying is another thing altogether. Why do they do it, and how can they get away with it?
10 New Items including:
- The New New Romney Is a New Kind of Mendacious Liar
- Rigged Presidential Debates Amidst the Supine Media
- Presidential debate fraud exposed as sponsors withdraw
- Obama by the Numbers
- The Lie Factory
- Rev. Dr. King versus Frightening And Deadly Hypocrisy In Obama's UN Address
- Obama’s Double-Speak at the DNC
- 8 Falsehoods, Lies and Misstatements From Romney Fundraising Video
- Wingnuts Falsely Claim Obama Administration Forbade Marines From Carrying Live Ammo
- Corporate bribery and political corruption on display at Republican, Democratic conventions

Dana Summers

All candidates lie or or flip-flop with something like abandon in order to win. But what Romney is saying to the electorate now is so deeply cynical that it seems unprecedented.
Media credibility aside, the GOP message is bereft

This year voters are not allowed to know about the current backroom fix between Obama and Romney.
The Three Most Popular False Post-Debate Memes
Presidential debate fraud exposed as sponsors withdraw

Obama by the Numbers, Mark Warren and Richard Dorment, Esquire

Here, as a service to clarity and sanity, is the story of the Obama administration in raw, irreducible numbers. The unspun numbers sometimes benefit the administration, and sometimes they do not, but they always act as a corrective to the serial crimes against the truth that are playing out daily in the ongoing election fight — served up by the White House, the campaigns, the billionaires and their unaccountable super-PAC money, a million screaming blogs, and the unholy propaganda machine that is Fox News.
The New New Romney Is a New Kind of Mendacious Liar

Joe Heller

Passages are quoted from Obama's address to the 67th UN General Assembly alongside passages from Martin Luther King's world shocking sermon Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence. From the sour feeling in one's own gut while listening to the absurdities, one assumes that the President himself must have a strong stomach to be able to speak such preposterous untruth with a straight and stern face. Obama's falsifications noted.
Obama’s Double-Speak at the DNC

Obama’s Double-Speak at the DNC, Daniel Kovalik, Counterpunch
Sounding very much like his predecessor, George W. Bush, President Obama engaged in a very calculated act of misdirection and obfuscation at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to continue justifying his unprovoked acts of war abroad.

8 Falsehoods, Lies and Misstatements From Romney Fundraising Video, Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
(September 17, 2012) The real Mitt Romney speaks his mind; and he's as twisted as he is misinformed.

Wingnuts Falsely Claim Obama Administration Forbade Marines From Carrying Live Ammo, Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones

The Marine Corps has confirmed to Mother Jones that a military blogger's popular conspiracy theory about the embassy attack in Egypt is wrong.
Full text of the memo from the Marine Corps' congressional liaison
Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect

Away from the minutely scripted and orchestrated proceedings in the convention hall—with all their hokum and stupidity—the serious business of peddling influence and selling votes will take place in what has become known as a “parallel convention.”
Former GOPer: How Republicans Went Crazy, Dems Lost Their Mojo, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
12 Steps to Overcoming Addiction to Voting for the "Lesser of 2 Evils"

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