Paul Ryan: The Lyin' King

Since When Did Paul Ryan Become a Liar?

Ryan seems to have fallen victim to circumstances he didn’t quite foresee. The Romney campaign has spent the last several weeks practically daring the national press corps to call out its lies. Well beyond the usual exaggerations of a national campaign, Romney has built its entire message around two accusations — “you didn’t build that” and “just send them a check” — that are obviously false. A day before Ryan’s speech, a Romney adviser told reporters, “We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” The media that had spent the last two and a half years nuzzling gently in Ryan’s lap had been prodded with sharp sticks and reacted in the predictable fashion, though probably not predictable to Ryan himself.

The thing about Ryan is that he has always resided in a counter-factual universe. He is a product of the hermetically sealed right-wing subculture. Many of the facts taken for granted by mainstream economists have never penetrated his brain. Ryan burst onto the national scene with a dense, fact-laden attack on the financing of Obama’s health-care bill that was essentially a series of hallucinations, pseudo-facts cooked up and recirculated by conservative apparatchiks who didn’t know what they were talking about or didn’t care. His big-think speeches reflect the influence of fact-free conservatives and collapse under scrutiny.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/si ... -liar.html

Even local news is catching on to Lying Ryan. On local Fox 31, in a one on one interview, local reporter Eli Stokols called Ryan out on his lies:
The noted deficit hawk who is the author of the controversial House GOP budget plan blamed President Obama for adding to the country’s ballooning deficit because of the 2009 stimulus package and Obamacare, which was signed into law last year.
“It’s actually the economy that’s given us the deficit we have and the massive deficit spending and domestic spending we’ve seen under President Obama,” Ryan told FOX31. “Yes, the wars are a small part of it.”
Actually, the Iraq war, which Ryan voted to authorize, will cost the nation more than $3 trillion; and the Bush tax cuts, which Ryan also voted for when they first took effect in 2001, will ultimately cost the nation $3.2 trillion if extended again through 2021.
The stimulus, by comparison, came at a price tag of $787 billion.

And one of my favorite Ryan lies:

As has now been reported in many places, Ryan told Hugh Hewitt in an August interview that he had run a marathon in “under three, high twos.”

Instead, as Runner's World investigated, he ran it in 4 hours one minute 25 seconds, which puts him several minutes behind Sarah Palin's best and only marathon time, and only a few minutes better than Oprah Winifrey's only marathon time.

And yet another Ryan lying statement:

Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said Tuesday that critics of his speech at last week’s convention have mischaracterized remarks he made about President Obama and the General Motors plant in his hometown of Janesville, Wis.

“What they are trying to suggest is that I said Barack Obama was responsible for the plant shutdown in Janesville,” Ryan said on NBC’s “Today.” “That is not what I was saying

Back-pedal = "Walk-back" = lying & got caught.

It seems most all politicians stretch the facts to puff themselves up. The problem I have with Ryan is that he does it a lot and does it without flinching. I have known a few people in my life that can lie like that and I got as much distance as I could between me and them. Lyin' Ryan is an apt nickname, in this case and I think he may be on the way down in his political career with such a spotlight on him this summer and fall.

In comparing President Obama to Jimmy Carter, Ryan said in July 1980 the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent and “for the past 42 months it’s been above 8 percent under Barack Obama’s failed leadership.”
Both parts of this sentence are true according to the Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, but in July 1983, when Ronald Reagan was president, unemployment was at 9.4 percent. In July 1982 it was higher at 9.8 percent.

Politicians are known to both misspeak and fudge the data, but not all are as close to the numbers as Ryan, who in Congress studies them himself, instead of leaning on aides to do it for him.

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Ryan's a smart guy. I'm sure he KNOWS he's lying but says it anyway.

Yeah, I gave credit to Ryan for being a smart guy, but lying his ass off has really brought his integrity down to the point that his credibility is in the toilet. This nomination tanks any aspirations to the Presidency that he might have ever had. It's almost like I'm waiting for him to quit his office halfway through his term and start his own reality tv show...

A variation of this Ryan lie was regurgitated by a right winger on here yesterday and I had to set them straight.

Raees wrote:

otisptoadwater wrote: With unemployment as high as it has ever been since the Great Depression of the 1930s

Not true! It was 10.8% in December 1982. It also had its greatest climb under Bush. It's coming down under Obama. Talk about dodging and weaving...

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explor ... yment+rate