Earlier today, I wrote that a lengthy critique pointing out the inconvienent fact that PolitiFact’s Lie of the Year — “The Romney campaign’s ad on Jeeps made in China” — turns out to be true. It involves a lot of complicated back and forth, so I encourage you to read that post if you’re not familiar with what’s going on. But the thrust of the matter is that the Romney campaign ran an ad saying that Jeep, the recipient of a taxpayer bailout, was going to start producing cars in China. Well, now PolitiFact has responded to my criticism, albeit obliquely, and their response leaves a lot to be desired:
“Our story focused on the clear message of the Romney campaign’s ad, that jobs in the United States were being moved to China, or perhaps that Jeep was moving its entire operations to China. That is not the case and has never been the case.”
Politifact tries to dodge the issue by saying they were addressing the implication of the ad rather than what the ad actually said. This “lie” got a lot of attention from the lapdog media after one of the presidential debates too.
A cynic might say that Obama supporters (i.e. auto bailout recipients) may have been purposely delaying bad news until after the election. This hardly seems like a decision that was made just in the last few weeks.
Meanwhile, the 2011 “Lie Of The Year” is still a lie and will likely be used again.
The lie of the year was that the Terrorist attack in Libya, was caused by a anti Muslim video. The shame of it all was that people who could have made a difference, did nothing , including the press, and Mitt Romney, during the election, and I,m pretty damn disappointed in Dave Petraus too.
Gus #1, I, for one, am hugely disappointed in the entire general/flag officer corps of the last 10 yrs.
Electric and Gus, I too am saddened that the US military didn’t respond decisively, I know at the tactical level individuals in the Army and AF would have jumped at the chance to rescue the former Seals, or avenge the attack. I don’t understand why the House Armed Services Committee hasn’t held hearings on the military response, or lack thereof. Was a military response quashed by the White House, the State Department, or the CIA? Or did they deploy a squadron of Delta to Sigonella, only to discover they were too late? Gen Carter Ham knows. Gen Dempsey knows. Sec Panetta knows. Dave Petraeus knows. Why don’t we?
The US military doesn’t take actions on its own, only when ordered to do so by the civilian leadership.
Gus, you hit the nail squarely on the head. The “lie of the year” was indeed the Obama regime’s flailing and intelligence-insulting scapegoating regarding the Libya murders, trying to pin it on some unknown YouTube video. Unfortunately, the asinine and duplicitous media — including the detestable liars and obfuscating shills at “PolitiFacts” — would actually prefer to eat excrement and vomit it up and eat it all over again, rather than report facts and reality that might put their Dear Leader and his ruling-class cohorts in a bad light.
TRY USING YOUR OWN SCREEN NAME AND AND LEAVE MINE ALONE!
The childish games some adults will play!
The sensible one is stealing the idiot’s name.
This is fun to watch!
… of the two, let’s keep Fake Zeke and toss Real Zeke into the dung heap.
Why does it matter one bit what our initial intelligence told us what the terrorists motive for terrorizing US embassy personnel? It takes more than a few weeks to learn all the facts about something. Hell, we are still learning about the Newtown shooting from a month ago, overturning the original reports. It would be unusual for information and evidence about an incident not to change after a few weeks of investigation.
I for one am not interested if Muslim terrorists are killing us because they hate our freedoms, hate our movies, hate our religious beliefs, or hate our policies in the Middle East. I’m not planning on listening to a terrorist or negotiating with them, no matter what their motives.
I hate terrorists for being terrorists. I want them punished no matter what reason they have for their terrorist acts, just as our President and our government does.
i’m betting the lie of the year for what happened last year hasn’t been told yet. hitlery hasn’t stepped up and testified the gospel truth on what happened in benghazi yet, has she?
i’m sure bill has been coaching her.
‘just say, i did not have …. ‘.
imho, maybe we should all wear our boots that day. its much easier wading thru piles of crap out on the farm wearing a pair of good ole ga. boots.
Come now, my friend.
EVERYONE who ever watched an Alfred Hitchcock film or any 1950′s mystery KNOWS that a bump on the head ALWAYS gives one AMNESIA!
As a person who failed Medical School, I recommend the following be tried:
1) Administer Milk of Amnesia IMMEDIATELY! But it must be done via enema, as Hill’s brains must be predominently in her oversized ass.
2)Get the tremendous angry chicken from “Family Guy” to smack her upside the head some odd number of times.
One of these should work.
They would both be funnier if done before the Whole Committee of Looking Into Things We Don’t Really Want You To Know, But Want to Talk About Forever, To Make It Look Like We Are Actually Doing Something.
You may all pay me later. Visa or Mastercharge only.
You’re welcome.
Doesn’t matter what the “Lie of the Year” was because it will never stain or stick to the Black Teflon this president enjoys with the Lame Stream Media.
There’s one story, if true, that’ll stick. I’m hearing speculation that our President negotiated with Al Quaeda to kidnap Ambassador Stevens just prior to the election which would have given our President an opportunity to show his fitness for another term by successfully negotiating with the kidnappers for the release of Stevens. This same line of speculation concludes that because Al Quaeda encountered resistance when our President assured them their would be none, Al Quaeda responded by raping and murdering our Ambassador.
People have been speculating on that from day one. IT would certainly explain why he refused to send any help, why he told the two seals present at the scene to stand down repeatedly, why they had the ready made excuse of a youtube video with only a small handful of views to blame the attack on, why they pushed that lie for so long while they thought up another excuse, and a number of other inconsistencies. The MB in Egypt was lobbying hard for the blind sheik around that time, no doubt Obama planned to return him in exchange for the ambassador, allowing him to appease the Muslims while earning political credit back home.
Unfortunately this story will never stick. If true they’ll kill to cover it up and the media will help them. If Petraeus or somebody started talking about this they’d conveniently have a “heart attack” or “stroke” and be rapidly bundled off the scene. They could mail a whole package of hard evidence to several media outlets and every one would return it to Obama unopened with a
on top. As they say, you can lead a jackass to water but you can’t make it drink, and our media most certainly does not want to drink the truth on the dealings of this administration.
I’m just impressed that the Politifuct writer could type out his reply with Obama’s member in his mouth.
Oh!
That’s GOOD!
Gee, they twisted the truth to help sway an election? Who would have thought?
It still says a lot that they call this the ‘lie of the year’ considering it seems grey at worst.
You know; after all the waste deep BS Obama and Reid have put out there…
A lie, the truth, just two sides of the same coin, eh?
What’s important is the result, or to be more precise, what’s important is that the result enriches oneself.
That’s obamist America. We used to call it tyranny, but that word is so so yesterday.
…and Romney was also right on Mali… oh well as long as the media had fun.
Liberals lie?
My trust in humanity is shattered.
Even though the MSM experts derided him, Romney was right on Mali, and right on Jeep.
Wow, can I contact that guy for some lottery numbers?
To a liberal, principals and truth are relativistic. Don’t bother trying to pin them down as they are spineless creatures and can morph into, around, and through most any shape.
Are you guys still trying to console yourselves? Romney lost. No amount of “gotcha” matters now: Obama is our president for the next 4 years. Get over it.
As your side loved to say from 2000 through 2008 – this man is _not_ my President. He is my enemy. The next four years will be a survival exercise for those of us who actually produce anything of value to our fellow man.
We know LN that truth bores you. Get used to it if you plan on hanging around here.
Oh, and that’s objective truth, not the twisted out of all recognition Howard Zinn kind of truth.