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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Krugman, Sullivan Join "Lie!" Chorus--Douthat Defends Ryan

The campaign that I--and others--have waged this week to get media folks to call a lie a lie continues to gain momentum.  Here's conservative Andrew Sullivan (longtime Obama-booster) collecting the outrage, some from unlikely sources.  And now Paul Krugman posts at his NYT blog, after noting how long the media considered Dubya a well-meaning sorta fella:
The Paul Ryan affair has felt very similar. Once again you had an obvious flim-flam man — obvious, that is, if you actually looked hard at his proposals. But for quite a while the Beltway, once again demonstrating its unfounded faith in the power of up-close-and-personal impressions, didn’t want to hear it. I’ve heard that the usual suspects were very angry at me for questioning his bona fides.
It’s starting to look, however, as if the life cycle of the Ryan myth is proving a lot shorter than the Bush version.
But note new Ross Douthat blog post at the Times in which he defends Ryan's lies, hits liberals who focus on them, says they're nothing new or unusual--just showing that he is a good politician.  In other words:  fact-checking may be hitting home.

Follow link to his Twitter feed for more of that.    Tweets:  "Janesville lie" is *exactly* why cons think many "fact checks" are bogus.  And:  I'm saying the liberal fixation on branding normal political attacks as unprecedented, world-historical LIES is foolish, weird.

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