TheGreatGatsby
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You have to desperately be searching for anything and everything to list 31 lies in a week (and Maddow is desperate). The article would be better if it focused on three to five alleged lies.
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6. Romney, trying to talk about foreign policy, said Syria is Iran's "route to the sea."
Iran doesn't share a border with Syria, and Iran already borders two bodies of water.
This one had me laughing:
6. Romney, trying to talk about foreign policy, said Syria is Iran's "route to the sea."
Iran doesn't share a border with Syria, and Iran already borders two bodies of water.
This one had me laughing:
6. Romney, trying to talk about foreign policy, said Syria is Iran's "route to the sea."
Iran doesn't share a border with Syria, and Iran already borders two bodies of water.
I'd have to see context. But if Iran was theoretically blocked off from the Arabian Sea then it is coceivable that Iran emissaries would travel through tribal northern Iraq and into Syria, which borders the Mediterranean Sea.
This one had me laughing:
I'd have to see context. But if Iran was theoretically blocked off from the Arabian Sea then it is coceivable that Iran emissaries would travel through tribal northern Iraq and into Syria, which borders the Mediterranean Sea.
Maybe one of the few bright spots in the Middle East developments in the last year has been the rising of the people in Syria against [President Bashar al-] Assad. Obviously, as you know, Syria is Irans only Arab ally in the region. Syria is the route that allows Iran to supply Hezbollah with weapons in Lebanon. Syria is Irans route to the sea.
Mitt Romney, question and answer session at AIPAC conference, March 6, 2012
I'd have to see context. But if Iran was theoretically blocked off from the Arabian Sea then it is coceivable that Iran emissaries would travel through tribal northern Iraq and into Syria, which borders the Mediterranean Sea.
Maybe one of the few bright spots in the Middle East developments in the last year has been the rising of the people in Syria against [President Bashar al-] Assad. Obviously, as you know, Syria is Irans only Arab ally in the region. Syria is the route that allows Iran to supply Hezbollah with weapons in Lebanon. Syria is Irans route to the sea.
Mitt Romney, question and answer session at AIPAC conference, March 6, 2012
It sounds like a geographic flub more than a lie. It is my understanding that Iran is smuggling weapons to Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon that border each other.
Weve puzzled over this comment for a while. When the presumptive GOP nominee referred to Syria as Irans route to the sea during the Arizona GOP debate in February, we figured it was just a slip of the tongue.
But then a reader counted at least five times in which Romney has used this phrase, including in the Feb. 22 debate, at last months American Israel Public Affairs Committee annual conference, in a TV interview (MSNBC, Dec. 21), on the radio (Kilmeade & Friends, Feb. 14) and even in a Washington Post interview (Feb. 10).
Could the contrast be any greater between Romney, who looted American companies and shipped their jobs overseas, only pays taxes at a 13% rate, stashes his money in the Cayman Islands to avoid U.S. taxes, and President Obama, who saved GM and created 27 straight months of private sector job growth?
This one had me laughing:
6. Romney, trying to talk about foreign policy, said Syria is Iran's "route to the sea."
Iran doesn't share a border with Syria, and Iran already borders two bodies of water.
Impersonating a police officer, bullying a classmate by holding him down and cutting his hair, straping his dog to the roof of his car for a 12 hour trip, getting arrested twice for disobeying police officers, fleeing to France to avoid the draft and then lying about it.....
Romney is a real oddball.
Impersonating a police officer, bullying a classmate by holding him down and cutting his hair, straping his dog to the roof of his car for a 12 hour trip, getting arrested twice for disobeying police officers, fleeing to France to avoid the draft and then lying about it.....
Romney is a real oddball.
you're like fricking parsley !
Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XXIII - The Maddow Blog
Granted, presidential candidates are no strangers to disingenuous or overstated claims; it's pretty much endemic to the business. But Romney is doing something very different and far more pernicious. Quite simply, the United States has never been witness to a presidential candidate, in modern American history, who lies as frequently, as flagrantly and as brazenly as Mitt Romney.
Now, in general, those of us in the pundit class are really not supposed to accuse politicians of lying -- they mislead, they embellish, they mischaracterize, etc. Indeed, there is natural tendency for nominally objective reporters, in particular, to stay away from loaded terms such as lying. Which is precisely why Romney's repeated lies are so effective. In fact, lying is really the only appropriate word to use here, because, well, Romney lies a lot.
If there are any lingering doubts about the accuracy of this observation, consider the 23rd installment of my weekly series, chronicling Mitt's mendacity. (I've been at this for several months now, and this week's list is the longest to date.)
Oh, I know; Obama lies just as much.
Please cite and link, mkthxbai.