Fiorina doubles down on Planned Parenthood falsehood (LIE)

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Maddow Blog

One of the amazing things about Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign was its indifference towards the truth. Plenty of politicians lie, but Romney had a unique ability to adopt a post-truth posture.

In the traditional model, a politician would make a claim, wait for it to be discredited, and then move on to the next falsehood. Romney preferred to skip the third part – he’d lie, wait for news organizations to catch the lie, and then effectively declare, “I like the lie, so I’m just going to keep repeating it anyway.”

Yesterday, GOP presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina decided to take the Romney model out for a spin. MSNBC’s Irin Carmon explained:

At Wednesday’s second Republican debate, Carly Fiorina described a secretly recorded video from an anti-abortion group, part of a series that includes Planned Parenthood executives, as showing “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.’” She challenged Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama to watch the tapes for themselves.

One problem: No such video exists.

Under the traditional rules, candidates caught telling a falsehood during a nationally televised debate would try to finesse a subtle walk-back. In a case like this, maybe Fiorina would say she was exaggerating for effect, or perhaps speaking metaphorically. Maybe she’d argue that such a scenario could happen, even if she hasn’t seen proof.

But yesterday, Fiorina instead stuck to the Romney method of campaigning.

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[still_one]

1. Problem is a large number of republicans believe that garbage

[brer cat]

3. Sad, isn't it?

I know people who get 100% of their "news" from FOX and RW radio. I have tried to tell them the truth but it makes no difference.

It especially bothers me when women buy into this crap. Comments like this should send up a big red flag, but they hear what they want to hear.

[randys1]

2. Close friend worked at HP under her. She would do weekly lectures over an intercom system

like you would have in high school and she would berate and belittle the employees the entire time.

Everyone at HP hated her, deeply.

She is a horrid human being. Horrid