Republicans have been lying about elections for a very long time. From Raw Story (here): “Grab the nearest Republican and ask them, ‘How did John Kennedy win the election in 1960?’ Most will answer, ‘Mayor Daley stole the election in Chicago.’ In the modern era, that [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Republican liars’
November 8th, 2022 - 1:09 am § in Politics, Republicans
“Violent crime” campaign ad is full of falsehoods
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), who’s in a close race for New York governor, has a campaign ad claiming to show “actual violent crimes caught on camera in Kathy Hochul’s New York,” including police shooting a black man named Saheed Vassell. But Vassell committed no crime. He was a mental[...]
October 28th, 2022 - 5:12 pm § in Republicans, Schools & Colleges
Is this the dumbest GOP smear ever?
Democrats are still mad about losing the Civil War and not being able to own slaves anymore. So they’ve been planning to topple the United States for decades, and schools don’t teach black history because the teachers unions don’t want kids to know it was white people who freed the[...]
October 24th, 2022 - 8:47 pm § in News Media, Politics
Believe it or not, the GOP’s crime record is worse
Despite the homily about “lies, damned lies, and statistics,” crime data tells the real story. “On the one hand, it is accurate that the murder rate in the U.S. has gone up at an alarming rate. On the other hand, despite the right-wing media narrative to the contrary, this is a pro[...]
October 24th, 2022 - 7:58 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Photoshopped campaign ads appear in N.C. races
Republicans, who have a long history of doctoring images to smear political opponents (see, e.g., article here), are doing it in several 2022 North Carolina races. See example below and read story here. In this case, the target of the smear is state Rep. Ricky Hurtado, who narrowly defeated a GOP in[...]
Who would you vote for?
The kind, friendly pastor? Or the football player who suffered so many concussions he can’t remember how many children he has? For Republican voters, this is easy: The guy with the “R” after his name. It’s about power, not character. Their candidate in this race has none. He&[...]
Yawn, another GOP candidate is a lying hypocrite
This has become routine. I expect GOP candidates to be liars and hypocrites. (See, e.g., “pro-life” Herschel Walker, a GOP Senate candidate in Georgia, paying for his girlfriend’s abortion and lying about it.) Today I’m going to make an example of Mark Finchem, the QAnon-link[...]
September 21st, 2022 - 2:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP candidate exaggerated his military service
Are we still surprised when a Republican politician is caught lying? I’m not, it’s so routine now. I have a theory about why Republicans lie so much, that goes like this: They think they’re on a Mission From God to “save America” from liberal heathens (who behave like [...]
What the GOP says about gas prices
Something is happening that Republicans eyeing the fall elections don’t like: Hiring remains strong and gas prices are falling. I’m not saying they’re against a strong job market and lower gas prices; they’d just rather take credit for it themselves. Anyway, this is what Hous[...]
July 8th, 2022 - 8:49 am § in Politics
Why do Republicans lie so much?
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) has introduced a bill to repeal the federal excise tax on guns and ammunition (see story here). He explains, “As assaults against Americans’ Second Amendment freedoms continue to emerge, so do treacherous threats that seek to weaponize taxation in order to price this con[...]