In his speech supposedly about national security, Mitt Romney again said that President Obama has “apologized” to foreign countries for the United States.
This is a lie.
It is also a test: members of the Fourth Estate, will you report on this without saying that it is untrue?
UPDATE: The invaluable Heather Hurlburt finds five more “untruths” (more commonly known as “lies”) in Romney’s speech. Will the press call him on any of them?
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Your link is self-referential!
I’m always self-referential! 😉 Fixed. Thanks.
Well, he did the next worst thing. Occasionally, he has shown a little tiny bit of respect to foreign leaders.
WE ARE AMERICANS! WE DON’T SHOW RESPECT; WE DEMAND RESPECT!!! WITH AMERICANS, RESPECT IS A ONE WAY STREET!!!
Obama does not get this; therefore, he hates America.
Ed,
Many of your readers don’t read Republican, and sometimes trip up on linguistic cognates. You should therefore have given them a translation from Republican to English when needed. Specifically, you should have translated the Republican word “respect.” There is no precise English equivalent, but “fear” would work okay, to first order. So would “fellatio.”
If we in the DP stopped giving it to them, for free no less! ; P, they would stop expecting it.
Boy, the salty language around here today.
In answer to your question, Jonathon, yes.
This has been today’s edition of simple answers to simple questions, and a plea for an end to post-modern journalism.
It’s not a ‘lie’. It’s true, but in a higher, better, realer way.
Today, one must ask, “Does the statement in question promote the interests of the Party? Does it support the Party’s unique role as Vanguard of the Revolution?” For if it does, then the statement possesses revolutionary Truth, which subsumes, and transcends, the old, bourgeois concept of ‘true’, as in ‘comporting with reality’.
Correctly oriented cadres know this.
All power to the soviets of preachers and hedge-fund managers!
(Today’s GOP is the last major Leninist parliamentary party in the developed world.)
What was the true story on White House political leaks of the raid on bin Laden and possibly other classified information? Romney made a big deal out of these leaks, but my memory is rather rusty on just what happened. Selective and strategic leaking of classified information is common practice in the White House of both parties; since much classified information does not threaten national security if made public, this charade can occasionally serve a legitimate purpose.
In any case, Heather Hurlburt did not confront this accusation. Does anyone have fresher memories of that cotroversy?
= = = What was the true story on White House political leaks of the raid on bin Laden = = =
There was a guy across the street tweeting the raid in realtime, so I’m not sure how much longer that top secret was going to be “secret”.
Cranky
Well at least the world isn’t talking about Bain anymore…
Exactly.