Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Amanda Marcotte: Paul Ryan a remarkably smooth liar



Amanda Marcotte has really fricasseed Paul Ryan in The Raw Story. The Wisconsin congressman is beginning to look more and more like the pathological Newt Gingrich.
 ...Ryan pulled a Babe Ruth, pointing his Bat of Horseshit at the Fences of Facts, and announced to the world he would be hitting this one so far past them that the truth would never be found again. He told lies like a man born without a conscience. And the crowd ate it up. Not that the Republican Party hasn’t had its share of glib liars before.
     Mike Huckabee became so beloved so fast because his experience as a pastor had turned him into a master spinner of bullshit, a man who had learned to mimic the cadences of empathy and kindness so well that even some liberals mistake him for a man of compassion who simply has strange religious beliefs. But even Huckabee had his tells. They were especially visible to those of us who’ve had more exposure to the disingenuous folkways of Southern Baptists who praise Jesus in the daylight while keeping the darkest corners of the porn internet fiscally solvent at night... Read more.

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