#Eastwooding Takes Twitter By Storm
As some folks on Twitter put it, this is why we love the internet. #eastwooding is on fire on Twitter. Please forgive the sloppy photo editing (I was in a hurry to bring these to you) but you get the idea…
Day: August 30, 2012
Graham: GOP Losing Ground on the Angry White Man Front
The demographics race we’re losing badly. We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the Washington Post, on the Republican party’s challenge.
Ryan Not the TV Draw That Palin Was
20 million
Number of television viewers Rep. Paul Ryan drew for his speech last night at the GOP convention, significantly less than the 37.2 million that Sarah Palin attracted four years ago, Businessweek reports.
The Storm Conspiracy
Rush Limbaugh is indeed the father of invention.
He accused Obama and the Hurricane Center of collusion.
The conspirators changed the track
Of Tropical Storm Isaac,
Just to screw up the Republican Convention.
Don’t Say We Never Give the Republicans Credit Where It’s Due
Hilarious photo from the Republican National Convention, tweeted by Stacy Lamb (@sllame) with the comment, “Ouch. Poor sign placement.”
That Day One Pledge from Romney
I’d like to know what’s noble about making it harder for people to get health care.
David Axelrod, Obama campaign strategist, commenting on the number of times Republicans pledged to repeal health care reform during their convention. Axelrod noted that his daughter, Lauren, was diagnosed with epilepsy at seven months, and without the reforms would be ineligible for insurance due to her pre-existing condition.
Buzz Over FOX News’ “Resident Liberal” Using L-Word to Describe Paul Ryan’s Speech
Who knew FOX News even had a “resident liberal?” Apparently they do, and the internets are afire over Sally Kohn’s description of Rep. Paul Ryan’s Republican National convention speech titled, Paul Ryan’s Speech in 3 Words: Dazzling, Deceiving, and Distracting.
Two things set apart the column from the others from fact-checkers who dispute almost every word uttered by Ryan and Romney. First, Kohn uses the L-word, something most mainstream outlets bar.
…to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies [emphasis added] and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.
Second, the column appears on the FOX News website’s opinion page.
Paul Ryan’s Desperate Powerpoint Presentation to GM Execs in 2008 Failed to Save Janesville SUV Plant
In his speech to his party’s convention last night, Rep. Paul Ryan falsely accused Pres. Obama of allowing a GM plant that built SUVs in Janesville, Wisc., Ryan’s hometown, to close.
But Ryan omitted at least two key facts in his prosecution of the president. One: GM announced it was closing the plant in June 2008, fully six months before Pres. Obama took office. And two: it was Paul Ryan, not the president, who tried and failed to convince GM to keep the plant open:
