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Just a Few Pants on Fire DNC Moments
Here are some of the distortions spotted on night one of the convention:
- Julian Castro said the Romney-Ryan budget would “gut Pell grants.” Paul Ryan’s budget doesn’t actually cut Pell grants, though it does prevent a scheduled increase in their maximum size and make it harder to qualify for them, the Washington Post points out.
- Castro also said that 4.5 million “new jobs” have been created under Obama. That’s from an Obama campaign talking point, which starts counting in February 2010, and counts only private-sector jobs—not public-sector ones, which declined. Count them, and start in 2009, and the economy has lost jobs.
- Castro said Romney would raise taxes on the “middle class.” But FactCheck.org points out that Romney has promised not to do so—Democrats are basing the statement on a study that implied he would have to.
- Deval Patrick, Romney’s successor as Massachusetts governor, said that by the time Romney left office, the state was 47th in job creation. It was 47th overall during Romney’s term, but when Romney left office it was 28th—up from 50th when he was elected—and as PolitiFact notes, this stat, like many Romney stats, exaggerates an executive’s influence on the job market.
- One union president said Romney had sought a “government bailout” for “his company.” But FactCheck says Romney actually negotiated a “favorable but routine settlement” with bank regulators for a company he used to work at, and that no taxpayer funds were involved.
Chuck U Farley
September 5th, 2012
Every time I hear that libtard mantra about 4.5 million jobs created, I just retort, that may be, but there are 23 million people that are unemployed!
Their little brains immediately go into Derp mode.
AbigailAdams
September 5th, 2012
Another big, fat lie: sandra fluke’s last name is pronounced “flook” not “fluk.” And tom brokaw IS a communist.
66chevelle
September 5th, 2012
Wanna shut Julian Castro up? Put him on Univision with George P. Bush. Castro can’t even speak Spanish. And he looks like a dweeb compared to Prescott…who can speak Spanish, BTW. Don’t let the Dems try to slip El Barque Segundo past without a thorough vetting this time. This guy’s mom was a cofounder of La Raza, fer cryin out loud!
Callmelennie
September 5th, 2012
A little OT but I wrote a parody of “My Baby Does the Hanky Panky” called “My Barney Does The Franky Panky” about Frank’s role in the subprime mortgage crisis
Now the proggtards on the site are turning fascist and are trying to downgrade me, in a sense are trying to shout me down. So can I get a little help combating them with some positive votes, so they understand this shit doesn’t work for them anymore? You just click the 5th button on the right, under “Lots”
I thank you
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/tommyjamesandtheshondells36.shtml
Xavier
September 5th, 2012
@Callmelennie
“My Barney made the Bankies Tanky” LOL
Moe Tom
September 5th, 2012
I’m watching Sandra Fluke, Bill Clinton is next. Whadda you think Greyscape. Will he poke it or be poked?
Moe Tom
September 5th, 2012
How many delegates will poke her tonight and bring their own protection? Line up at Room #9.
FreeMan - Sarah Dissed Again
September 5th, 2012
I am at a hotel in Alexandra NY now and just turned on the TV, Fluck was on. 1 second and it was over the Spike TV.
I am on vacation.
AbigailAdams
September 5th, 2012
Flook, Warren — Dear God in Heaven!! I really can’t stand these people. LIARS.
FreeMan - Sarah loves 2016
September 5th, 2012
I just can’t do it, it is too much like work.
Why does the RNC go first?
reddecaesari
September 5th, 2012
no tv so catch the updates from iotw and twitter.
keep them rolling.
Moe Tom
September 5th, 2012
I’m watching Bill (Blow Job) Clinton. Wondering how much this lieing sack of shit will go on.
norman einstein
September 5th, 2012
WTF is Bubba talking about?
“Shared prosperity”
“…can’t go back to the old economy”
Sounds like “bring warm clothes and a shovel” to me!
AbigailAdams
September 5th, 2012
Words escape me. Clinton is on a full-on Kool Aide Acid Test. This is what someone who is so off the grid he has no allegiance to this country looks like.
Stranded in Sonoma
September 5th, 2012
@norman einstein — What they paid him to talk about. Of course his payola is Sandra Spermicide so Barry may have come “change” coming.
BWAHAhahahahahahaha!
Geoff C.
September 5th, 2012
Lies, Lies, and more Lies. And next up are the biggest liars of them all. I fish, but I could never tell whoppers like the dems do.
Geoff C.
September 6th, 2012
Here is the best ode to Fluke I have seen.
To abortionist Sandra Fluke, on her campaign tour for Barack Hussein Obama.
Alas, the name has come to wrap itself around
Your putrid frame, a second skin that might astound
All onlookers with eyes of pity as they gaze
At one so lacking shame. If ever you amaze,
Tis not by beauty long since tainted and disgraced
As much by outward use as your polluted thoughts,
(With women, it is from within that beauty rots),
Nor woman’s modesty by servile lust effaced,
Much less the antique charms of gentle ladies past
Whose looks commanded armies and their fame outlast;
Oh no! Your fascination is the gutter kind,
But with a special twist for which you’re most maligned:
That you should prostitute your leaden mind to Hate,
To service—in full view—the Phallus of the State.
Kenneth Kyntale