Josh Marshall, TPM: Will the Liar Thing Break Through?

[highplainsdem]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/08/will_the_liar_thing_break_through.php

Two things were unquestionably true about Paul Ryan’s speech last night: One, it was unquestionably a well-written and well-presented speech and Two, it was filled with a lot of out and out lies or things that were so hypocritically or comically misleading as almost to amount to the same.

In itself, that’s not a huge surprise. What’s notable is how many pundits and news reporters couldn’t help noting right off the bat that well … he sure lied a lot.

Now, very few felt able to quite come out and say that, though interestingly some did. But in most cases it was reporters basically straining at the bounds of euphemism that reporters feel allowed to use. Last night I already mentioned Wolf Blitzer and Erin Burnett came at it on CNN right after Ryan concluded his speech …

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The real question to watch over the next 24 hours is whether that lying thing breaks through into its own issue, as something reporters who are afraid of getting smacked around by campaigns are actually willing or feel they need to discuss.

[randome]

1. If the media is guilty of bowing to public wishes, then they must, at this point...

...realize which way the wind is blowing. The GOP has become a loose collection of whiny losers. Why continue to kowtow to them? Even Fox News -at least on its website- seems to be letting up on the leash and letting some truths slip by.

[NBachers]

2. Even Huff Post is calling them "Demonstrably Misleading Assertions" instead of Lies