Fox News: Paul Ryan's Speech "Greatest Number of Blatant Lies"

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Wednesday August 29, 2012 · 11:11 PM PDT

2012/08/29 · 23:11

No kidding, Fox News, the same Fox News where studies show people who watch no news at all know more than Fox Viewers called Ryan's speech "Deceiving."

Sally Kohn of Fox News wrote: Paul Ryan’s speech in 3 words: dazzling, deceiving and distracting.

On "deceiving" Kohn wrote:

... 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.

She went on to list Ryan's lies:

Paul Ryan accused President Obama of taking $716 billion out of Medicare, the fact 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

Kohn went on to explain why she is disgusted by the Romney/Ryan lies:

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.

On "distracting" Kohn wrote:

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.

Kohn went on to explain Ryan's desire to privatize Social Security

Ryan didn’t mention his previous plan to hand over Social Security to Wall Street.

Kohn's take on Ryan's voting record:

Ryan didn’t mention his numerous votes to raise spending and balloon the deficit when George W. Bush was president.

Kohn's take on Ryan's Budget:

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.

Kohn finished with:

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.

um ... gee ... thanks Ms. Sally Kohn, I couldn't have said it better myself. I hope you have a job in the morning as Fox could use more people like you.

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