The
New York Times has published a
lie-by-lie refuting of Romney and Ryan's RNC speeches. An excerpt:
Representative
Paul D. Ryan used his convention speech on Wednesday to fault President
Obama for failing to act on a deficit-reduction plan that he himself
had helped kill. He chided Democrats for seeking $716 billion in
Medicare cuts that he too had sought. And he lamented the nation’s
credit rating — which was downgraded after a debt-ceiling standoff that
he and other House Republicans helped instigate.
And Mitt Romney,
in his acceptance speech on Thursday night, asserted that President
Obama’s policies had “not helped create jobs” and that Mr. Obama had
gone on an “apology tour” for America. He also warned that the
president’s Medicare cuts would “hurt today’s seniors,” claims that have
already been labeled false or misleading. The two speeches — peppered
with statements that were incorrect or incomplete — seemed to signal the
arrival of a new kind of presidential campaign, one in which concerns
about fact-checking have been largely set aside. [snip]
In his
floor speech, Mr. Romney repeated his widely debunked charge that Mr.
Obama had gone on an “apology tour” on America’s behalf — an accusation
he feels so strongly about that he laid out his own worldview in a 2010
book he titled “No Apology.” But independent fact checkers have called
the accusation a distortion, and it is hard to find evidence that Mr.
Obama ever said he was sorry for the United States.
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The New York Times has published a lie-by-lie refuting of Romney and Ryan's RNC speeches. An excerpt:
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