Friday, August 31, 2012

RNC Night Three: Mitt's Big Moment

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RNC Night Three: Introducing Mitt
Clint Eastwood Talks to Empty Chair in Tampa
RNC Night Two: Paul Ryan Center Stage
RNC Opening Night: One Hand Clapping for Lame Speeches

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Clint Eastwood Talks to an Empty Chair in Tampa

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OMG - You Can't Make This UP ~ legendary actor Eastwood upstaged Romney by talking to an Empty Chair at the RNC. Only in America. Only in America.



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Clint Eastwood Talks to an Empty Chair in Tampa
Romney Advisers on Hotseat Over Chair Debacle
Media Turn Clint Eastwood Every Which Way but Loose
Clint Eastwood Blames Mitt for Stupid Chair Skit

Clint Eastwood totally lost debate to that chair.
~ kittykop.tumblr.com/

“I am,” I said
To no one there
An no one heard at all
Not even the chair…”
—Neil Diamond, “I Am…I Said” (1971)
~ athreehourtour.tumblr.com/

I would give all the money in the world for Morgan Freeman to read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man out loud to Clint Eastwood.
~ praxjarvin.tumblr.com/

4 minutes into Clint Eastwood’s speech and things have yet to make sense
Clint Eastwood- the Chair Whisperer.
~ ohdearnotthisagain.tumblr.com/

I think we should stop calling them “straw man arguments”
and start calling them “chair president arguments.”
~ lunasspecto.tumblr.com/

Referring all questions on this to Salvador Dali.
~ Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt in email to Politico

I don't . . . I don't . . . I don't know . . . Clint Eastwood is 82 years old. And I don't know if that's what was going on there . . . That was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen at a political convention in my entire life, and it will be the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen if I live to be one hundred.”
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RNC Night Three: Introducing Mitt

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Previous Posts
RNC Night Two: Paul Ryan Center Stage
RNC Opening Night: One Hand Clapping for Lame Speeches

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Congressman Connie Mack, R-Florida










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Reagan Legacy Video


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Callista and Newt Gingrich (ex-Republican Candidate)




















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Craig Romney
















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Jeb Bush, Ex-Governor of Florida




















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Bob White, Romney Campaign Chairman














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Grant Bennett












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Tom Sternberg













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Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, R-Massachusetts












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Jane Edmonds, former Massachusetts secretary of workforce








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Actor Clint Eastwood Has His Own Post
Clint Eastwood Talks to a Chair in Tampa

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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida















Thursday, August 30, 2012

Even Fox News Agrees ~ Ryan's Lyin'

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. . . to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.
~ Sally Kohn on Fox News

Blitzer: So there he is, the republican vice presidential nominee and his beautiful family there. His mom is up there. This is exactly what this crowd of republicans here certainly republicans all across the country were hoping for. He delivered a powerful speech. Erin, a powerful speech. Although I marked at least seven or eight points I’m sure the fact checkers will have some opportunities to dispute if they want to go forward, I’m sure they will. As far as mitt romney’s campaign is concerned, paul ryan on this night delivered.
Burnett: That’s right. Certainly so. We were jotting down points. There will be issues with some of the facts. But it motivated people. He’s a man who says I care deeply about every single word. I want to do a good job. And he delivered on that. Precise, clear, and passionate.
~ CNN Anchors at the RNC, Via Talking Points Memo

As for Ryan, it’s scary that he could lie so brazenly to the millions of people around the country who tuned in to watch the Republican National Convention. But what’s scarier? That quite a few of those millions will have hung on to and believed every word he said.
~ Tracy Bloom on Truth Dig

The sanctimonious V.P. nominee seems to have forgotten the Fourth Commandment: “Thou shalt not lie.” Ryan believes he can say anything and get away with it.
~ Joan Walsh on Salon

But really, the proper response to a speech like [Paul Ryan’s] isn’t to carefully analyze the logic, or to find instances of hypocrisy; it’s to call the speaker out for telling flat-out lies to the American people. Paul Ryan has had what I’ve long thought was an undeserved good reputation among many in the press and in Washington. It shouldn’t survive tonight’s speech.
~ Jonathan Bernstein in Washington Post

Ryan talked about moral creed, but his budget slashes programs aimed at protecting those that he said we have an obligation to protect. If that is the Romney/Ryan American dream, then voters -- young, old, middle class, African-American, Latinos and women -- would do well to say thanks, but we'll keep our hope and change even if it takes four more years to get there.
~ CNN

Ryan actually pushed the envelope, peddling new fantasies, like the spin that says: “Obamacare comes to more than 2,000 pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country."
This will come to news as news to Britain, Canada, Germany and other American allies that somehow keep the light of liberty shining even as they guarantee all citizens access to quality healthcare.
~ John Nichols on The Nation

So the Democrats have to raise their game. They’ve never had to encounter this kind of buttery demagoguery before. Their campaign is going to have to be almost as much against Ryan as against Romney. (Does anyone think Romney’s speech is going to be more effective to the intended audience? I’d be awfully surprised if it is.) They have to rebut his lies, and they have to do it without sounding bitter or afraid or superior or haughty. That’s not easy to do. But it’s the challenge of this campaign. If they can’t win the Ryan war, they’re done.
~ Michael Tomasky on Daily Beast

But here's the thing: Most of the millions of people who watched the speech on television tonight do not read fact-checks or obsessively consume news 15 hours a day, and will never know how much Ryan's case against Obama relied on lies and deception. Ryan's pants are on fire, but all America saw was a barn-burner.
~ Dan Amira on New York Magazine


The Six Worst Lies in Paul Ryan's Speech
~ Think Progress

Pants on Fire: The The False Truths Paul Ryan Told During The RNC (LIST)
~ Global Grind

The Lies People Are Willing to Accept From VP Nominee Paul Ryan
~ Hyper Vocal

Paul Ryan's speech: a round-up of his most audacious untruths
~ Guardian UK

Paul Ryan's speech: a round-up of his most audacious untruths
~ Guardian UK

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

RNC Night Two: Paul Ryan Center Stage - With Updates


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Previous Posts:
RNC Opening Night: One Hand Clapping for Lame Speeches

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Ron Paul video












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Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky convention temporary chairman












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Senator Rand Paul, R-Kentucky




















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Senator John McCain, R-Arizona














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Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens

















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Senator John Thune, R-South Dakota
















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Senator Rob Portman, R-Ohio










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Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño










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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty












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Bush 41, 43 film



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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee















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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice














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Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, for Vice President






















































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