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davidcorn.bsky.social • 2 days ago

I am shocked.

Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: Every claim made by Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) to ridicule the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office turns out to be false.

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dpercival.bsky.social•2 days ago

They are NOT "errors". THEY ARE LIES. Calculated, deliberate LIES.

And this is how the Washington Post normalizes, sanitizes and legitimizes the DELIBERATE LIES from the Republicans: by pretending they are "errors".

thebluephotog.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/thebluephotog.bsky.social/post/3lrpad6p3fk2z

jratrodgerville.bsky.social•2 days ago

Surely this is a shift in behaviour. Copying Don-boy, perhaps.
I know politicians would often be misleading and could frequently misdirect but outright flagrant lying seems to becoming more and more normalized.
Shame on them.

clumsyninja.bsky.social•2 days ago

How will our country ever recover from the sheer volume of lying from the right? Mis/Dis-information is standard practice, and many media outlets are either outright supporting or quietly ignoring the lies.

theodora30.bsky.social•2 days ago

That won’t happen until the MSM steps up and debunks their lies and portrays Dems fairly. Listen to the 6/10 Pitchfork Economics podcast episode with the interview of long time Republican policy advisor and tax policy expert Bruce Bartlett who left the Party because of Dubya.
He slams the media for

theodora30.bsky.social•2 days ago

….continuing to pretend that Republicans care about the debt. He describes how Clinton had had a budget surplus that he was using to pay down the national debt. Bush destroyed that surplus with tax cuts mostly for fat cats. Bartlett said if Bush had just continued with Clinton’s policies by the end

theodora30.bsky.social•2 days ago

….of his 2nd term the debt would have been wiped out.
That is a fact that we voters should be repeatedly reminded. Ditto for the fact that Reagan nearly tripled the national debt and his tax cuts were big cause of that debt. And then there is Trump’s budget-busing tax cuts for the rich.

theodora30.bsky.social•2 days ago

clumsyninja.bsky.social•2 days ago

With all due respect, there are plenty of non-mainstream media personalities/outlets on the right and on our side who dabble in misinformation too.

theodora30.bsky.social•2 days ago

Which is why we need the MSM to be counter their spin and lies. As Steve Bannon bragged to Joshua Green’s see his book ( “Devil’s Bargain”) Bannon works to hack the MSM to get them to help spread his dishonest slanders of Dems because it’s the MSM that does the real damage to Democrats. He’s right.

theodora30.bsky.social•2 days ago

…The claims Bannon and Schweizer made about the Clinton Foundation did not hold up to scrutiny but the damage was done because the NYT and WaPo had printed them without rigorous fact-checking.
These same outlets had allowed themselves to be conned by Bush and Cheney into promoting their WMD lies

krisweinschenker.bsky.social•2 days ago

I wonder if he has the same agent as @espn.com icon Stephen A Smith?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/espn-star-unleashes-out-control-padilla-crashing-noem-press-conference

arctica23.bsky.social•2 days ago

"Because the Laffer curve is right. If you lower taxes, you increase production, and that means more revenue for the government. It always has worked. I think it always will work."

Do these guys just pretend not to know what they're talking about or is it really this bad?

theodora30.bsky.social•2 days ago

The mainstream “liberal” media rarely debunks that claim because it would contradict their idol Saint Ronnie Raygun