Posted on 08/29/2012 7:16:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster.
A half dozen fact-checking organizations and websites have refuted Romney’s claims that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law and will cut Medicare benefits by $216 billion.
Last Sunday’s New York Times even reported on its front page that Romney has been “falsely charging” President Obama with removing the work requirement. Those are strong words from the venerable Times. Yet Romney is still making the false charge. Ads containing it continue to be aired.
Presumably the Romney campaign continues its false claims because they’re effective. But this raises a more basic question: How can they remain effective when they’ve been so overwhelmingly discredited by the media?
The answer is the Republican Party has developed three means of bypassing the mainstream media and its fact-checkers.
The first is by repeating big lies so often in TV spots – financed by a mountain of campaign money – that the public can no longer recall (if it ever knew) that the mainstream media and its fact-checkers have found them to be lies.
The second is by discrediting the mainstream media – asserting it’s run by “liberal elites” that can’t be trusted to tell the truth. “I am tired of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans,” Newt Gingrich charged at a Republican debate last January, in what’s become a standard GOP attack line.
The third is by using its own misinformation outlets – led by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his yell-radio imitators, book publisher Regnery, and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, along with a right-wing blogosphere – to spread the lies, or at least spread doubt about what’s true.
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Reich is right. It is a lie. It's more like 700 BILLION.
The Obama welfare ad by Romney is as legitimate as that.
Watching Dems go into a tizzy over Romney's 'lies' when they think (them and Obama) lying about Romney is great strategy is entertaining.
Hell, what if we (could) put up some-one who was honest against Obama? wouldnt that be like disarming one side before a fight?
” led by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his yell-radio imitators, book publisher Regnery, and the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, along with a right-wing blogosphere”
as opposed to ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNN, letfty nutjobs, Obamamaniacs, OWS, failed car companies, failed solar energy, failed lefty politicians & their mouthpieces and all other lefty mouth breathers including Robert Reeeeeiiiccchhh...
My thoughts exactly.
This nothing more than classic Dem projection.
Little Bobby is the munchkin that lied and lied and lied for Clinton, and he is lying now.
Does the Turd Reich lie about his heigth?
But this raises a more basic question: How can they remain effective when they’ve been so overwhelmingly discredited by the media?Or, rather, isn't it just terrible that the new media has so crippled the ability of our tame media mouthpieces to shape our lies into accepted truths?
When even Alice Rivlin, Clinton’s chief economist, agrees with Romney, you’d think that Reich would give it up. I guess he’s hoping BO would want to diversify his second term cabinet by appointing a white dwarf to some post.
“Why not just look at THE ORDER HE SIGNED”
Please post it here so we can use it!
Counting "journaling" as a work activity is probably the most egregious.
Dear Diary, I didn't do $#!( today and I got paid by the government for it.
Is it reasonable to count something like real job training such as electrician school as meeting the work requirement? Sure and if the law needs to be changed to cover that then Congress should do that. Unilaterally changing the requirement in probable violation of the explicit terms of the law to allow journaling, exercise or massage instead of work. Nope!
“Projection” is more than putting an image up on a screen.
It is a total denial of what the Democrat party is doing, while claiming the Republicans (and particularly conservatives) are doing just exactly what the Democrats have been doing all the time.
Therefore, the claim that “everybody does it”.
I’m calling BS on this. Lying about lying does not negate the fact that lying is going on.
Not everybody dissembles, prevaricates or obfuscates. Sometimes, a real and verifiable fact does escape captivity.
Then all hell breaks loose.
By not lying?
Imagine that, a half dozen liberal fact checkers looking for an obvious fact, and they still haven’t found one. What more proof do we need that liberals are useless?
Imagine that, a half dozen liberal fact checkers looking for an obvious fact, and they still haven’t found one. What more proof do we need that liberals are useless?
Exactly what I was thinking. Projecting I believe it is called.
Sawed off twerp.
When I read something Reich wrote, I picture him reading it outloud dressed as an ooompa-loompa, then I laugh and laugh and laugh....
Obama Guts Welfare Reform
Robert Rector and Kiki Bradley
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/12/obama-guts-welfare-reform/
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/policy/im-ofa/2012/im201203/im201203.html
Today the Obama Administration issued a new directive stating that the traditional TANF work requirements can be waived or overridden by a legal device called the section 1115 waiver authority under the Social Security law (42 U.S.C. 1315).
Section 1115 states that “the Secretary may waive compliance with any of the requirements” of specified parts of various laws. But this is not an open-ended authority: Any provision of law that can be waived under section 1115 must be listed in section 1115 itself. The work provisions of the TANF program are contained in section 407 (entitled, appropriately, “mandatory work requirements”). Critically, this section, as well as most other TANF requirements, are deliberately not listed in section 1115; they are not waiveable.
In establishing TANF, Congress deliberately exempted or shielded nearly all of the TANF program from the section 1115 waiver authority. They did not want the law to be rewritten at the whim of Health and Human Services (HHS) bureaucrats. Of the roughly 35 sections of the TANF law, only one is listed as waiveable under section 1115. This is section 402.
Section 402 describes state plans—reports that state governments must file to HHS describing the actions they will undertake to comply with the many requirements established in the other sections of the TANF law. The authority to waive section 402 provides the option to waive state reporting requirements only, not to overturn the core requirements of the TANF program contained in the other sections of the TANF law.
The new Obama dictate asserts that because the work requirements, established in section 407, are mentioned as an item that state governments must report about in section 402, all the work requirements can be waived. This removes the core of the TANF program; TANF becomes a blank slate that HHS bureaucrats and liberal state bureaucrats can rewrite at will.
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