Move along. Nothing to see here. Just the rambling delusions of another desperate OWEdummy supporter
Chronic diarrhea of the mouth seems to plague the little pipsqueak and his running mate. They both can't help letting these dumb lies spill from their mouths.
Why Do Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan Tell Small, Dumb Lies?
Paul Ryan caught a lot of guff last week—correctly—for delivering a vice presidential acceptance speech which was festooned with lies and false assertions. It was so bad that when the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein and his staff scoured the speech looking for truth, lies, and misleading statements—they produced a grand total of two “true” policy items. Two.
But what intrigues me today isn’t the big lies like the ones for which Ryan has been excoriated recently. Right now I’m more interested in the smaller variety of lie whose triviality raises questions about their deployment. I’ll give you two examples.
Ryan caught notice last week when he told the conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt that he had run a sub-three hour marathon. This is apparently an impressive enough figure that Runner’s World wanted to find out more. What they found out was that his actual personal best time was a hair over four hours. I’m no runner (I follow my wife’s dictum: Run only when chased), but even I know that a difference of more than an hour in a marathon time is a big deal.
So why tell the lie?
Move along. Nothing to see here. Just the rambling delusions of another desperate OWEdummy supporter
Bookmarks