The Blue Fairy: You must learn to choose between right and wrong.
Ryan: Right and wrong? But how will I know?
Jiminy Cricket: [watching] How’ll he know!
The Blue Fairy: [to Pinocchio Ryan] Your conscience will tell you.
Ryan: What are conscience?
Jiminy Cricket: What are conscience! I’ll tell ya! A conscience is that still small voice that people won’t listen to. That’s just the trouble with the world today….
Ryan: Are you my conscience?
Jiminy Cricket: Who, me?
Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XXXIII: We might as well own up to reality: Mitt Romney is a shameless liar committed to one thing and only one thing: his own ambition and lust for power. And so the lies continue….
Bush Chief Political Strategist: Paul Ryan’s Speech Was Full Of Lies: At some point, the truth should matter…. And yet it’s clear that it doesn’t matter- for either Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney.
LIE OR MISTAKE? PAUL RYAN’S MARATHONING PAST: Ryan’s an extremely intelligent individual. There’s no way he doesn’t remember his marathon time; I just think he’s chosen to ignore the reality of how easily and quickly he can be fact-checked. That, or he just doesn’t care.
Why Paul Ryan’s Lies Matter: Because if he’s willing to openly and willfully lie to the American Sheeple on the campaign trail, how can we trust him to tell the truth when he’s in office?
The Difference Between Political Lies and Political Dishonesty: Dishonesty is present in every political campaign. Every politician works overtime to paint themselves in the most flattering light. When you willfully misrepresent facts, you’ve crossed the line…and Paul Ryan has both feet over that line.
The Lies People Are Willing to Accept From VP Nominee Paul Ryan: The sad thing is that the American Sheeple are so pliant and easily propagandized. It’s a phenomena I like to call, “Is that true or did you hear it on Fox News?” It seems few of us can be bothered to actually think about what we’re being told.
The 15 best comedian tweets reacting to Paul Ryan’s RNC speech: You have to know that we’re well and truly hosed when the most cogent reactions to Ryan’s shameless lying come from comedians.
Truth Takes a Beating In Paul Ryan’s Convention Speech. It’s so much easier to keep track of things when you tell the truth. Sure, facts can and will get tangled from time to time. That sort of humanity and human error can be forgiven. What’s unforgivable is the mendacity and willful dishonesty that Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney employ as a central strategy of their campaign.
Paul Ryan’s marathon lie: If Ryan will lie about “little” things, how are we to assume that he’ll be honest about the truly serious issues facing this country? Or will he simply make it up as he goes?
Paul Ryan: Prevaricator-in-chief: Ryans’s speech “will also go down in history — as the biggest pack of lies ever told to any political convention.” What more could one possibly add to that description?
‘We’re Not Going to Let Our Campaign Be Dictated by Fact-Checkers’: What would happen if the press took a stand on truth, and…yeah, like that’s going to happen. If the press won’t do their job and inform the American Sheeple, how are they to know that what they’re being fed are lies and propaganda?
Matt Taibbi: Mitt Romney Has ‘Casual Relationship With The Truth And Reality’: Quelle surprise, no? Actually, I’m surprised that Romney has ANY relationship with the truth, much less a casual one.
