Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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Given PolitiFact's dubious record of singling out Republicans for lying far more often then Democrats


If Republicans didn't lie in more brazenly ridiculous ways than Democrats, this wouldn't be the case. Even this article is dishonest. If you don't want to be picked on as the party of more absurdly transparent lying, my recommendation would be to stop being a sucker for serial lying put out by your party's propaganda machine. Hold your leaders accountable. Democrats are bad enough as it is, so if you could just stop swallowing hilarious whale of a lie after lie, you might get more spotlight shined there.
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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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If Republicans didn't lie in more brazenly ridiculous ways than Democrats, this wouldn't be the case.


Bingo.
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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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I'm not going to deny that Romney made a mistake here and "embellished", though he likely didn't do it intentionally, just read an article. Sometimes when you're busy you make mistakes.

Still, it wasn't a total lie, it was still partially true.

Further, people can make mistakes. Problem is, 99% of everything else you people say about us is the ACTUAL LIES.

We can admit a fudge, you people however can't.
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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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ldsfaqs wrote:I'm not going to deny that Romney made a mistake here and "embellished", though he likely didn't do it intentionally, just read an article. Sometimes when you're busy you make mistakes.

Still, it wasn't a total lie, it was still partially true.

Further, people can make mistakes. Problem is, 99% of everything else you people say about us is the ACTUAL LIES.

We can admit a fudge, you people however can't.


You admit unintentional mistakes here and there. (How Romney's ad was an unintentional mistake is beyond me, unless you want to indict him for extreme incompetence and ignorance.) But then you accuse Democrats of ACTUAL LIES.

If you weren't so dense, you'd be ridiculous. As it is, you're just dense and somewhat pathetic.
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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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ldsfaqs wrote:I'm not going to deny that Romney made a mistake here and "embellished", though he likely didn't do it intentionally, just read an article. Sometimes when you're busy you make mistakes.

Still, it wasn't a total lie, it was still partially true.

Further, people can make mistakes.

Oh, please.

As Beastie said, when you make an honest mistake (which it could possibly have been initially), you back off and admit that's what happened. You don't start an expensive ad run, with a very carefully crafted ad that sends the exact same message, but in a way that is technically true but misleading.

Problem is, 99% of everything else you people say about us is the ACTUAL LIES.

We can admit a fudge, you people however can't.

Now you're just acting petty.
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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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motherboard bcspace can't tell the difference between:

1. moving US jobs to China
2. thinking of moving US jobs to China


1. moving all Jeep jobs from the US to China
2. not moving any US Jeep jobs from the US to China

1. manufacturing all Jeeps in China
2. manufacturing some Jeeps in China

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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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beastie wrote:You admit unintentional mistakes here and there. (How Romney's ad was an unintentional mistake is beyond me, unless you want to indict him for extreme incompetence and ignorance.) But then you accuse Democrats of ACTUAL LIES.

If you weren't so dense, you'd be ridiculous. As it is, you're just dense and somewhat pathetic.


From what I recall the actual "ad" was accurate. What wasn't accurate was when Romney said "all" in describing the China move.

Bottom line, is only "two" Jeep models are going to be produced in the U.S. and one model the "Rodeo" is going to now be produced in China. Either way you cut it, it wasn't the lie of the year. Yes, a misrepresentation that doesn't appear to have been intentional, but still the ultimate point and truth which is jobs being moved to China is still true.

And yes, this issue is no different than Mormons and Anti-Mormons. Mormons can make a mistake sometimes on an issue or two. But Anti-Mormons lie about everything about the other side. Likewise, Liberals do the same to Conservatives. I see it over and over.
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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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ldsfaqs wrote:From what I recall the actual "ad" was accurate. What wasn't accurate was when Romney said "all" in describing the China move.

Bottom line, is only "two" Jeep models are going to be produced in the U.S. and one model the "Rodeo" is going to now be produced in China. Either way you cut it, it wasn't the lie of the year. Yes, a misrepresentation that doesn't appear to have been intentional, but still the ultimate point and truth which is jobs being moved to China is still true.

And yes, this issue is no different than Mormons and Anti-Mormons. Mormons can make a mistake sometimes on an issue or two. But Anti-Mormons lie about everything about the other side. Likewise, Liberals do the same to Conservatives. I see it over and over.


When you persist in creating an alternate reality, there is absolutely no point to try and reason with you. Aside from that, I posted mainly to share a quote I happened upon from another individual who was frustrated by the inability of his opponent to recognize not only was he wrong in his points, which the poster in question recognized due to his background training, but also by the inability of the opponent to recognize his inadequacy in regards to the entire topic:

If you insist, then I am happy enough to indulge you in your little fantasy and confess that I cannot "refute" your claims. Does that give you a little thrill? Have you won? If it does give you a thrill, then you really are a hopeless case, and you are certainly no philosopher. I also cannot refute the claims, such as they are, of the lonely souls I meet on the streets of Montreal promoting the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche, Sun Myung Moon, or Rabbi Schneerson. This does not mean that these are good ideas. Indeed it is often the case that the weaker a claim is, the harder it is to engage it substantively: one cannot get a foothold in shared background assumptions, and communication proves impossible. This is why I cannot "refute" your project. I could pick it apart critically, bit by bit (I could, for example, point out that, whatever reality is, it is certainly not, as you claim, a "criterion" of anything), but that would be a commitment that I would only be willing to make to someone who has proven willing to enter into dialog with me. And you do not seem ready to do this.

If on the other hand you find that a victory like this lacks dignity, then, again, I repeat my advice: go learn from some people who have managed to say some profound and insightful things, and get back to me in a decade or so.


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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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ldsfaqs wrote:And yes, this issue is no different than Mormons and Anti-Mormons. Mormons can make a mistake sometimes on an issue or two. But Anti-Mormons lie about everything about the other side. Likewise, Liberals do the same to Conservatives. I see it over and over.

It's hilarious that you make a comparison to something that was founded on lies (gold plates, translating hieroglyphs, angels, bronze-age Christians in America...).

But it's not really surprising that you think that way. I've heard Scientologists and Moonies say the same thing about the people who have left their organizations and dare to speak out about its practices. All liars, they say. But that's the way it is inside a bubble, whether it's a bubble of religious belief, or religiously held political belief.
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Re: Romney: "Lie of the Year" turns out to be true

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Kevin Graham wrote:So says the notorious and laughably untrustworthy weekly standard, via our resident troll for Right Wing fanaticism bcspace...

'nuff said.

I agree with Kevin's strategy of attacking the messenger.......especially when the message makes one's own position look feeble and difficult to defend....or when one can not offer a valid rebuttal or response....or when one realizes that what they considered so "true" was actually....a lie.

intellectual high ground medal goes to......(spoiler alert...its not kevin)
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