Obama is finally fighting back himself:
Meanwhile, Andrew Romano gives Mitt's stump speech low marks:
In Romney’s world, Barack Obama isn’t a president whose policies have failed, which is an argument that a reasonable person could reasonably make. Instead, he is the living embodiment, and source, of all that is wrong with everything, everywhere, a kind of omnipotent malefactor hellbent on destroying the U.S.A. The argument is so comically exaggerated in both scale and scope that Romney is forced to exaggerate—or just make stuff up—in order to sustain it.
Which means he will have to say one Big Lie after another. Which means the work of pieces like my essay will be more and more necessary, even if Fox News won't allow these ideas and facts to be aired. Last week, Krugman made a version of this argument:
[I]s there anything at all in Romney’s stump speech that’s true? It’s all based on attacking Obama for apologizing for America, which he didn’t, on making deep cuts in defense, which he also didn’t, and on being a radical redistributionist who wants equality of outcomes, which he isn’t. When the issue turns to jobs, Romney makes false assertions both about Obama’s record and about his own. I can’t find a single true assertion anywhere.
Let's make sure this time that the lies are always challenged not with rhetoric or bomb-throwing, but facts. They're what Fox News is scared of: facts they can't use to advance propaganda.
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