{"id":2490,"date":"2012-08-30T12:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2012-08-30T12:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:40:52","slug":"how-the-media-soft-plays-paul-ryans-lies-factual-shortcuts-perceived-inaccuracies-questionable-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/08\/how-the-media-soft-plays-paul-ryans-lies-factual-shortcuts-perceived-inaccuracies-questionable-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Media Soft-Plays Paul Ryan\u2019s Lies: &#8216;Factual Shortcuts,&#8217; &#8216;Perceived Inaccuracies,&#8217; &#8216;Questionable Claims&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Paul Ryan\u2019s (R-WI) speech to the Republican National Convention last night was chock-full of bald-faced lies. For example, Ryan blamed the Obama for S&amp;P\u2019s downgrade of our credit rating (despite the fact that S&amp;P blamed GOP policies) and blasted Obama for failing to heed the Bowles-Simpson debt commission (which Ryan torpedoed). Yet political reporters covering the speech have, in many cases, been curiously reticent to call Ryan\u2019s lies what they are. Here\u2019s a list, in no particular order, of the euphemisms used in place of \u201clie\u201d to describe Ryan\u2019s falsehoods:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/08\/30\/774211\/how-the-media-soft-plays-paul-ryans-lies-factual-shortcuts-perceived-inaccuracies-questionable-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\">How The Media Soft-Plays Paul Ryan\u2019s Lies: &#8216;Factual Shortcuts,&#8217; &#8216;Perceived Inaccuracies,&#8217; &#8216;Questionable Claims&#8217; | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Paul Ryan\u2019s (R-WI) speech to the Republican National Convention last night was chock-full of bald-faced lies. For example, Ryan blamed the Obama for S&amp;P\u2019s downgrade of our credit rating (despite the fact that S&amp;P blamed GOP policies) and blasted Obama for failing to heed the Bowles-Simpson debt commission (which Ryan torpedoed). Yet political reporters&#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":[1411,26,773,832,295,1410,301,143],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490"}],"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=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}