Jon's Ego (in print form!)

jhermann:

theweekmagazine:

1. “GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan took some factual shortcuts during the Republican convention when he attacked President Barack Obama.” (Cal Woodward and Jack Gillum at The Associated Press)

2. “It was just one of several striking and demonstrably misleading elements of Ryan’s much-anticipated acceptance speech.” (Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post)

3. “Ryan misleads on GM plant closing in hometown: Paul Ryan appeared to suggest that President Obama was responsible for the closing of a GM plant in Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, Wisc. That’s not true.” (Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post)

4. “Ryan’s misleading speech… was part introduction of himself and his small-town origins, part testimonial to his running mate and — in largest part — a slashing and, in many elements, misleading indictment of President Obama as both a spent force and a threat to American freedom.” (The editorial board at The Washington Post)

5. “Paul Ryan’s factually shaky Republican convention speech… is getting slammed for some pretty heavy inaccuracies.” (Brett LoGiurato at Business Insider)

6. “Paul Ryan’s headlining speech at the GOP convention in Tampa Wednesday night touched on many of the election’s defining issues. But it was also filled with prevarications.” (Brian Beutler at Talking Points Memo)

7. “Paul Ryan is the newest new Nixon, a moocher belied.” (Charles P. Pierce at Esquire)

8. “Paul Ryan’s Medicare doublespeak.” (Brian Fung at The Atlantic)

9. “I’d like to talk, instead, about what Ryan actually said — not because I find Ryan’s ideas so objectionable, although I do, but because I thought he was so brazenly willing to twist the truth.” (Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic)

10. “Paul Ryan’s acceptance speech at the Republican convention containedseveral false claims and misleading statements.” (Robert Farley at USA Today)

11. “Rep. Paul Ryan stretched some truths Wednesday night when he accepted the Republican Party’s 2012 vice presidential nomination…” (Mark Memmott at NPR)

12. “Ryan’s speech veered from empty rhetoric to outright distortion, with little in between.” (Jean MacKenzie at Global Post)

13. “The speech didn’t require policy expertise, particularly. Indeed, an expert might feel compelled to avoid the series of inconsistencies and contradictions that were woven through Ryan’s jeremiad.” (John Dickerson at Slate)

14. “I marked at least seven or eight points I’m sure the fact checkers will have some opportunities to dispute if they want to go forward, I’m sure they will.” (Wolf Blitzer at CNN)

15. “We were jotting down points. There will be issues with some of the facts. But it motivated people.” (Erin Burnett at CNN)

15 ways the media is calling Paul Ryan a liar, without actually using the L-word

Yikes.

But, hey, as long as the people cheered, right?