by Dave Johnson | Oct 18, 2012 | Blog
After a series of blatantly dishonest Mitt Romney campaign ads have been saturating the airwaves -- one even editing audio to make it sound as if the President said something that he never said --our media elites have finally found an ad to click their tongues at. A...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 18, 2012 | Blog
Earlier I pointed out Romney biggest debate lie: Obama did not "double the deficit" he cut it by almost 1/3. Here are three more big Romney debate lies. 1) Unemployment rate. Obama promised to bring unemployment down to 5.4%. This is another lie -- Obama never...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 18, 2012 | Blog, Climate, Economy
Mitt Romney's "binder full of women" comment has gone viral, which is pretty entertaining but has had the unfortunate side effect of crowding the phrase "wind jobs." That's a real loss, because that term could become a very useful part of our political vocabulary....
by Bill Scher | Oct 17, 2012 | Blog
I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak -- President Barack Obama, 3/25/09 The right is in a tizzy claiming that Candy Crowley tipped the debate by "fact-checking" Mitt Romney on President's Obama statements regarding the Benghazi attack, then saying...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Oct 17, 2012 | Blog
Echoing the memo that Stan Greenberg of Democracy Corps published Monday, I called on President Obama to offer a bold agenda on jobs and the economy on Tuesday night, one that would lay out specific contrasts to the empty suit of the Mitt Romney agenda and would...
