{"id":2152,"date":"2012-06-23T14:19:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T18:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2012-06-23T14:43:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T18:43:02","slug":"want-to-read-the-over-300-lies-romney-has-told-in-the-past-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/06\/want-to-read-the-over-300-lies-romney-has-told-in-the-past-few-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to read the over 300 lies Romney has told in the past few months?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are watching the 2012 presidential race closely, Mitt Romney\u2019s penchant for falsehoods is hard to miss. Michael Cohen summarized the issue nicely this week in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/jun\/21\/mendacious-mitt-romney-bid-liar-in-chief\">a piece<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Granted, presidential candidates are no strangers to disingenuous or overstated claims; it\u2019s pretty much endemic to the business. But Romney is doing something very different and far more pernicious. Quite simply, the United States has never been witness to a presidential candidate, in modern American history, who lies as frequently, as flagrantly and as brazenly as Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in general, those of us in the pundit class are really not supposed to accuse politicians of lying \u2014 they mislead, they embellish, they mischaracterize, etc. Indeed, there is natural tendency for nominally objective reporters, in particular, to stay away from loaded terms such as lying. Which is precisely why Romney\u2019s repeated lies are so effective. In fact, lying is really the only appropriate word to use here, because, well, Romney lies a lot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there are any lingering doubts about the accuracy of this observation, consider the 23rd installment of my weekly series, chronicling Mitt\u2019s mendacity. (I\u2019ve been at this for several months now, and this week\u2019s list is the longest to date.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/06\/22\/12359704-chronicling-mitts-mendacity-vol-xxiii\">Chronicling Mitts Mendacity, Vol. XXIII &#8211; The Maddow Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are watching the 2012 presidential race closely, Mitt Romney\u2019s penchant for falsehoods is hard to miss. Michael Cohen summarized the issue nicely this week in\u00a0a piece\u00a0for\u00a0The Guardian: Granted, presidential candidates are no strangers to disingenuous or overstated claims; it\u2019s pretty much endemic to the business. But Romney is doing something very different&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[26,773,832,1258,295,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}