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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

2012 Reality Has a Reality Bias

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:40 PM

The Romney campaign is going to keep running on falsehoods. It's part of the plan, apparently.

Despite universal agreement among independent fact-checkers that Romney is lying about Obama’s welfare policy, Romney campaign pollster Neil Newhouse said that wouldn’t deter the campaign.

“Fact checkers come to this with their own sets of thoughts and beliefs, and we’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers,” Newhouse told BuzzFeed.

When these guys are transparent, they're all-the-way transparent.

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No. Just n-

SHIT!...alright now my nose is bleeding.

I think the stupidity of the campaign finally just gave me brain to hemorrhage.

Posted by Pick1 on August 29, 2012 at 1:20 PM

*gave me a brain hemorrhage*

Posted by Pick1 on August 29, 2012 at 1:21 PM

No surprise here - if facts themselves don't deter them, fact-checkers certainly won't either.

"Today's GOP: We Make Our Own Reality!"

Posted by COMTE

on August 29, 2012 at 1:52 PM

@1, 2 - Yeah, um... you might actually want to get that looked at.

Posted by MacCrocodile

on August 29, 2012 at 2:07 PM

I'm actually kind of surprised they didn't just claim the fact checkers agreed with them. It would be perfectly fitting with their strategy.

"No, I think you'll find they validated everything we said in that ad."

Next, they need a Fact-Checkers for Romney ad.

Posted by MacCrocodile

on August 29, 2012 at 2:12 PM

"We can't be deterred by mere facts! We're running a presidential campaign here!"
Plus if they are mostly appearing on Faux Newz facts are not applicable at any rate.

Posted by Skye Blu on August 29, 2012 at 7:11 PM

they don't care because they don't have to. Their base doesn't care about facts.

Unfortunately, we Dems are sounding like "No, Mommy, Jeffy's lying! I didn't do it! Make him stop lying, Mommy!"

Posted by sarah70 on August 29, 2012 at 10:57 PM