• Fox News: Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of b
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[QUOTE][B]Paul Ryan's convention speech in three words. [/B] 1. Dazzling At least a quarter of Americans still don’t know who Paul Ryan is, and only about half who know and have an opinion of him view him favorably. So, Ryan’s primary job tonight was to introduce himself and make himself seem likeable, and he did that well. The personal parts of the speech were very personally delivered, especially the touching parts where Ryan talked about his father and mother and their roles in his life. And at the end of the speech, when Ryan cheered the crowd to its feet, he showed an energy and enthusiasm that’s what voters want in leaders and what Republicans have been desperately lacking in this campaign. To anyone watching Ryan’s speech who hasn’t been paying much attention to the ins and outs and accusations of the campaign, I suspect Ryan came across as a smart, passionate and all-around nice guy — the sort of guy you can imagine having a friendly chat with while watching your kids play soccer together. And for a lot of voters, what matters isn’t what candidates have done or what they promise to do —it’s personality. On this measure, Mitt Romney has been catastrophically struggling and with his speech, Ryan humanized himself and presumably by extension, the top of the ticket. 2. Deceiving [B]On the other hand, 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. [/B]The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated. Fact: While Ryan tried to pin the downgrade of the United States’ credit rating on spending under President Obama, the credit rating was actually downgraded because Republicans threatened not to raise the debt ceiling. Fact: While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush[IMG]http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png[/IMG]. Ryan actually asked for federal spending to save the plant, while Romney has criticized the auto industry bailout that President Obama ultimately enacted to prevent other plants from closing. Fact: Though Ryan insisted that President Obama wants to give all the credit for private sector success to government, that isn't what the president said. Period. Fact: Though Paul Ryan accused President Obama of taking $716 billion out of Medicare, the fact[IMG]http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png[/IMG] is that that amount was savings in Medicare reimbursement rates (which, incidentally, save Medicare recipients out-of-pocket costs, too) and Ryan himself embraced these savings in his budget plan. Elections should be about competing based on your record in the past and your vision for the future, not competing to see who can get away with the most lies and distortions without voters noticing or bother to care. Both parties should hold themselves to that standard. Republicans should be ashamed that there was even one misrepresentation in Ryan’s speech but sadly, there were many. 3. Distracting And then there’s what Ryan didn’t talk about. Ryan didn’t mention his extremist stance on banning all abortions with no exception for rape or incest, a stance that is out of touch with 75% of American voters[IMG]http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png[/IMG]. Ryan didn’t mention his previous plan to hand over Social Security to Wall Street. Ryan didn’t mention his numerous votes to raise spending and balloon the deficit when George W. Bush was president. Ryan didn’t mention how his budget would eviscerate programs that help the poor and raise taxes on 95% of Americans in order to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires even further and increase — yes, increase —the deficit. These aspects of Ryan’s resume and ideology are sticky to say the least. He would have been wise to tackle them head on and try and explain them away in his first real introduction to voters. But instead of Ryan airing his own dirty laundry, Democrats will get the chance. At the end of his speech, Ryan quoted his dad, who used to say to him, “"Son. You have a choice: You can be part of the problem, or you can be part of the solution." Ryan may have helped solve some of the likeability problems facing Romney, but ultimately by trying to deceive voters about basic facts and trying to distract voters from his own record, Ryan’s speech caused a much larger problem for himself and his running mate.[/QUOTE] [URL]http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/paul-ryans-speech-in-three-words/#ixzz258pqJrGn[/URL] In other news, polar bears and penguins have begun moving into hell.
Didn't Fox say they were starting to lean more towards the middle a while back or something?
[QUOTE=Andokool12;37482435]Didn't Fox say they were starting to lean more towards the middle a while back or something?[/QUOTE] So they're going from super-conservative to just plain conservative?
Ohh shit, I have to read the comments on there for once. Will Fox viewers suddenly be condemning Andrew Ryan and cheering on Obama? Wait, what? Is there no comments section?
I wonder how long before this writer gets thrown out for heresy. Also what from I've read Ryan seems like Palin 2.0 (aka complete lunatic). [sub]What is up with objectivists having the same name as me?[/sub]
[QUOTE=rinoaff33;37482503]I wonder how long before this writer gets thrown out for heresy.[/QUOTE] He will walk the plank in no time.
Don't get excited, they just forgot to sarcmark it
Why does the one article that I want to see the comments on have to be the one without a comments section?
I think I might have lost a bet here, but whoever I've made that bet with is probably so surprised they've forgotten everything about it in the first place.
Is this satire My satire meter seems to be broken
Wow. This was unexpected.
[url]http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/sally-kohn/index.html[/url] What is even
[QUOTE=Jund;37482721][url]http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/sally-kohn/index.html[/url] What is even[/QUOTE] An infiltrator!
Someone is going to lose their job over at Fox News
Fox News has a thin sliver of fair and balanced, albeit, in opinion pieces after all?
someone didn't pay someone
1. Fox News 2. Op/Ed
[QUOTE=Ridge;37482852]1. Fox News 2. Op/Ed[/QUOTE] That have to be approved and selected by Fox
wait you sure this is fox?
So articles from opinion sections are allowed now? (I don't care what you think Fox news is, this article has opinion directly in the link)
What is this and what have you done with Fox News?
[QUOTE=Glaber;37482910]So articles from opinion sections are allowed now? (I don't care what you think Fox news is, this article has opinion directly in the link)[/QUOTE] I think its more we're amazed that something like this would be sad in an OPINION piece from Fox news.
[QUOTE=Glaber;37482910]So articles from opinion sections are allowed now? (I don't care what you think Fox news is, this article has opinion directly in the link)[/QUOTE] No, we're surprised that even Fox News calls a republican politician out on the blatant bullshit for once. There's still hope lads & lasses.
You know you fucked up when the news network famous for being so biased towards your party that sensible folk lump them in with The Onion calls you out on your bullshit. GG, Paul Ryan. [editline]31st August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Glaber;37482910]So articles from opinion sections are allowed now? (I don't care what you think Fox news is, this article has opinion directly in the link)[/QUOTE] Fox calling bullshit on a high-ranking GOP politician is news regardless of where it was posted on their site.
[QUOTE=Glaber;37482910]So articles from opinion sections are allowed now? (I don't care what you think Fox news is, this article has opinion directly in the link)[/QUOTE] When the opinion piece [i]is[/i] the news, yes
[QUOTE=Glaber;37482910]So articles from opinion sections are allowed now? (I don't care what you think Fox news is, this article has opinion directly in the link)[/QUOTE] Just because it is an opinion piece doesn't mean it can be without merit. It really depends on the contributor and how well the piece connects itself to the issue via logical analysis. In this case, your favorite website just boned you.
[QUOTE=Glaber;37482910]So articles from opinion sections are allowed now? (I don't care what you think Fox news is, this article has opinion directly in the link)[/QUOTE] We're used to fox news going "haha liberals" and completely disregarding facts.
So I looked up sally kohn [IMG]http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/kohn_headshot.jpg[/IMG]
When you're too conservative for Fox News, you [I]know[/I] you're too goddamn conservative.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;37482500]Ohh shit, I have to read the comments on there for once. Will Fox viewers suddenly be condemning [B]Andrew Ryan[/B] and cheering on Obama? Wait, what? Is there no comments section?[/QUOTE] Is that a bioshock reference?
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