Borowitz: Ryan Launches Campaign Theme of Lying About Everything

[highplainsdem]

Ryan Launches Campaign Theme of Lying About Everything

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TAMPA (The Borowitz Report)—In his speech to the Republican National Convention last night, Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan test-drove what the Romney-Ryan campaign says will be a major theme for the 2012 Republican campaign: “lying about everything.”

“The question was, how many whoppers could you pack into one speech?” the campaign adviser Tracy Klugian said. “All I can say is, when Fox News accuses a Republican of lying, you know you’ve witnessed something historic.”

Mr. Ryan pronounced himself pleased with his performance, noting that he only strayed into the truth when he recited the names of his wife and children.

“That won’t happen again,” he laughed. “Call it opening-night jitters.”

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[Kalidurga]

1. I thought the Borowitz Report was supposed to be satire.

Where was the satire part?

[FSogol]

2. +1

[magical thyme]

3. maybe this part?

Mr. Ryan pronounced himself pleased with his performance, noting that he only strayed into the truth when he recited the names of his wife and children.
“That won’t happen again,” he laughed. “Call it opening-night jitters.”



He didn't "stray" into the truth about his wife's name and children. He deliberately told the truth, and will continue to, as evidence that he never lies and always tells the truth.

But yeah, you're right. Sadly no satire in this one....

I think the GOP has marched so far over the edge they've become impossible to satire. You simply can't go further than they've gone. To the point where they're proving the earth is flat, because if it was round by now they would have run into the extreme left.....


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[Jackpine Radical]

4. Satire was barely clinging to life under the assaults from the Right.

Satire sightings were sometimes reported in Republican ideological neighborhoods, but they generally turned out to be sightings of actual facts that were so bizarre that nobody believed them.

The Onion fell on hard times because they couldn't come up with anything outrageous enough not to be mistaken for Republican reality.

Now, having heard Ryan's speech while lying on its deathbed, Satire at last clutched its throat and expired.