Romney's pick of Paul Ryan as his running mate was supposed to be a game changer, providing his campaign with some serious talking points and a clear "vision" beyond just slamming Obama. Today they're out with their first new ad since the VP announcement, and instead of touting any of Ryan's "bold" new ideas, they've reverted to another ad spreading an outright fabrication - a demonstrable lie. The ad once again claims that Obama has quietly removed the work requirements from the welfare program.
This isn't about spin, this isn't about opinion, this isn't about perspective. This is a flat-out, demonstrable lie. It's factually incorrect on every level. There is absolutely no justification for it, no way to look at the situation from a different angle and arrive at this conclusion. It's just lying. The Romney campaign was roundly savaged for spreading this lie the first time, so now, rather than recanting or saying they chose the wrong words, they're just repeating the same completely disproven lie.
How on earth do they expect to get away with this? I'll tell you how. We have a lazy, incompetent, complicit media that will not do the right thing here, which would be to scream it from the headlines and shout it on the airwaves. "LIARS!!" Let's see what happens.
Bastards.
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