{"id":12216,"date":"2012-08-31T06:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2012-08-31T06:29:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T11:29:34","slug":"facts-take-a-beating-in-acceptance-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/08\/31\/facts-take-a-beating-in-acceptance-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts Take a Beating in Acceptance Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> comments on the Republican acceptance speeches in <a title=\"The New York Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/31\/us\/politics\/ryans-speech-contained-a-litany-of-falsehoods.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Facts Take a Beating in Acceptance Speeches<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Representative Paul D. Ryan used his convention speech on Wednesday to fault President Obama for failing to act on a deficit-reduction plan that he himself had helped kill. He chided Democrats for seeking $716 billion in Medicare cuts that he too had sought. And he lamented the nation\u2019s credit rating \u2014 which was downgraded after a debt-ceiling standoff that he and other House Republicans helped instigate.<\/p>\n<p>And Mitt Romney, in his acceptance speech on Thursday night, asserted that President Obama\u2019s policies had \u201cnot helped create jobs\u201d and that Mr. Obama had gone on an \u201capology tour\u201d for America. He also warned that the president\u2019s Medicare cuts would \u201churt today\u2019s seniors,\u201d claims that have already been labeled false or misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The two speeches \u2014 peppered with statements that were incorrect or incomplete \u2014 seemed to signal the arrival of a new kind of presidential campaign, one in which concerns about fact-checking have been largely set aside.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If <em>The New York Times<\/em> had a reputation for honesty, this might mean more. Sadly, once you throw your credibility away, you cannot use it to cast aspersions on others.\u00a0 This is one reason why President Obama should not follow the Romney\/Ryan campaign down the same dishonest path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times comments on the Republican acceptance speeches in Facts Take a Beating in Acceptance Speeches. Representative Paul D. Ryan used his convention speech on Wednesday to fault President Obama for failing to act on a deficit-reduction plan that he himself had helped kill. He chided Democrats for seeking $716 billion in Medicare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12217,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions\/12217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}