Subscribe to Excerpts
Subscribe by Email
We’ve already had one post-modern Presidency, under Bush the Lesser. Do we want another under Romney?
Archive for the ‘Lying in politics’ Category
January 7th, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Mitt Romney
Posted: Saturday, January 7th, 2012 at
8:38 pm
Tags: 100000 jobs, job creation, job cremator, post-modern politics, Romney
23 Comments »
December 27th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
Daniel Okrent reports that there’s no evidence at all to support the persistent rumor. Chalk it up to the unprincipled persistence of the right wing in trashing its opponents by every means, fair or foul.
Posted: Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 at
11:30 am
13 Comments »
December 18th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
And Mitt Romney doesn’t have one. The real question is how he gets away with it. The answer seems to be that his campaign knows how to use access to incentivize good coverage.
Posted: Sunday, December 18th, 2011 at
8:06 am
26 Comments »
December 5th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Mitt Romney
Lower than Nixon?
Posted: Monday, December 5th, 2011 at
12:24 pm
11 Comments »
October 30th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Drug Policy, Lying in politics
Alejandro Hope shreds the latest drug numbers invented by the UN.
Posted: Sunday, October 30th, 2011 at
2:30 am
Tags: Alejandro Hope, crime, drugs, statistics, UN
5 Comments »
September 12th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
“PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe.”
Only there was no alteration, and no gaffe.
And no retraction from any of the Red bloggers who spread the misinformation, even after it was corrected.
Posted: Monday, September 12th, 2011 at
5:24 pm
Tags: cover-up, founder, gaffe, Lincoln, NPR, Republican Party
29 Comments »
August 29th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics
No, Bachmann did not ask a white crowd, “Who likes white people?” And Dan Quayle never said he wished he’d studied Latin so he could understand the people in Latin America.
Posted: Monday, August 29th, 2011 at
11:35 pm
21 Comments »
August 24th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Lying in politics, Watching Conservatives
Man steals Paul Krugman’s identity to try to make Krugman’s ideas seem stupid. No right-of-center blogger or pundit is willing to say out loud that is just plain wrong.
Posted: Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 at
10:20 pm
31 Comments »
August 15th, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Rick Perry flip-flops about HPV vaccination, and lies about it. Jay Root of the Texas Tribune nails him.
Posted: Monday, August 15th, 2011 at
11:09 pm
Tags: flip-flopping, HPV, lying, Rick Perry
4 Comments »
August 2nd, 2011
by Mark Kleiman
Category: Drug Policy, Lying in politics
The Drug Policy Alliance has such great regard for the truth that its reports dole out the precious substance with a sparing hand.
Posted: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 at
5:36 pm
Tags: drug policy, Drug Policy Alliance, drug war, drugs, Hawken, HOPE, legalization, prohibition, Soros
11 Comments »